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Hamilton, ON · Public foundation

United Way Golden Horseshoe

United way halton & hamilton raises funds in the community and allocates them to registered charitable organizations within the communities of halton & hamilton.

C$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
405
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$390k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 405 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k293 grants · C$305k
  • C$10k–50k33 grants · C$934k
  • C$50k–250k73 grants · C$7.7M
  • C$250k+6 grants · C$1.8M
C$778
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Support & Housing HaltonC$390,084
Reach Out Centre for Kids (ROCK)C$361,358
Social Planning & Research Council of HamiltonC$321,930
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton and HamiltonC$266,452
Nucleus Independent LivingC$251,000
Thrive Counselling Services Halton Inc.C$250,185
Distress Centre - North HaltonC$249,745
YWCA The Hamilton Young Women's Christian AssociationC$238,600
Acclaim Health and Community Care ServicesC$236,517
Canadian Mental Health Association Hamilton BranchC$235,453
Jewish Social Services Of Hamilton Inc. (The)C$200,617
YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/BrantfordC$183,367
Sexual Assault & Violence Intervention Services of HaltonC$176,662
Hope Place CentresC$160,333
Food for Life CanadaC$156,587
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$41M
Alberta
C$265k
New Brunswick
C$264k
Quebec
C$248k
British Columbia
C$201k
Manitoba
C$63k
Nova Scotia
C$52k
Saskatchewan
C$16k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$14k
Prince Edward Island
C$4k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$57M · 1149 repeat orgsC$3.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

1149 repeat relationships — 310 still active in FY2024, 839 since wound down; 60 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1149
567

Total granted

C$57M
C$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+34%

Still filing today

93%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • TC
    Thrive Counselling Services Halton Inc.
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.0M · revenue +1% · 25% of their budget
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF HALTON AND HAMILTON
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.5M · revenue +22% · 28% of their budget
  • RO
    Reach Out Centre for Kids
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • AH
    Acclaim Health and Community Services
    one grant, 2019 · C$178k
  • TL
    The Lost Organization
    one grant, 2021 · C$150k · revenue -100%
  • YT
    YWCA The Hamilton Young Womens Christian Association
    one grant, 2019 · C$119k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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2
Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch

Canadian mental health association toronto (cmha toronto) is the city's leading community mental health agency. we provide accessible quality care for people in toronto through programs research and advocacy. from supporting individuals…

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3
Vha Home Healthcare

VHA is a not for profit charitable organization that offers 24/7 health care and support services to people of all ages and cultural backgrounds. Our goal is to provide clients with spectacular service when where and how they want it to…

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4
Child Development Institute

Cdi is a multi-service charitable organization that offers early years and childcare services mental health and counselling services and programs that address gender-based violence. unified under one agency cdi's diverse programming…

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5
Children's Treatment Network of Simcoe York

Children's Treatment Network (CTN) supports children and youth with disabilities and developmental needs in their homes communities and schools. CTN provides programs and services including intake service navigation coordinated service…

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6
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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7
The George Hull Centre for Children and Families

The George Hull Centre for Children & Families is an accredited children's mental health centre serving children and youth from birth to age 18 and their families. The Centre provides a range of family-centred services including prevention…

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8
Sickkids Centre for Community Mental Health

Children's mental health prevention/early intervention services treatment training and research including: 1. Prevention-To prevent mental health problems from occurring through parent education and community outreach . 2. Early…

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9
The Ontario Caregiver Organization

The Ontario Caregiver Organization exists to support Ontario's 4 million unpaid caregivers who provide physical and/or emotional support to a family member partner friend or neighbour in need. We work to amplify and spread existing…

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10
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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11
Cota Health

Cota is an accredited not-for-profit provider of community mental health services in the greater toronto area. the organization assists persons living with mental illness developmental disabilities dual diagnosis acquired brain injuries…

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12
Casey House Foundation

Casey House Foundation raises funds to support exemplary health care and compassionate support at Casey House a hospital unlike any other. As a sub-acute specialty hospital in Toronto they offer comprehensive inpatient and outpatient…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fredericton Community Services Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Barrie Out of the Cold. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

1680 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1680 of the 1,776 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

34
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
500
Early backer (in before they grew)
1589/1680
Grantees still filing
1211/1680
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThrive Counselling Services Halton Inc. — C$2,973,201 over 8y, 25% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF HALTON AND HAMILTON — C$2,496,458 over 8y, 28% of budgetReach Out Centre for Kids (ROCK) — C$1,843,100 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetSupport & Housing Halton — C$1,614,842 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetAcclaim Health and Community Care Services — C$1,611,182 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Way of Windsor-Essex County — C$1,526,148 over 8y, 12% of budgetSocial Planning & Research Council of Hamilton — C$1,406,861 over 8y, 11% of budgetYMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford — C$1,401,307 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWesley Urban Ministries Inc. — C$1,331,828 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetYWCA Hamilton — C$1,240,068 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetRadius Child and Youth Services — C$1,159,443 over 8y, 7.4% of budgetDistress Centre - North Halton — C$1,095,481 over 7y, 67% of budgetNelson Youth Centres — C$1,056,665 over 7y, 22% of budgetCatholic Family Services of Hamilton - Wentworth — C$1,042,293 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetCommunity Development Halton — C$1,010,345 over 7y, 28% of budgetHamilton East Kiwanis Boys' & Girls' Club — C$875,783 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetFood for Life Canada — C$843,089 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION-HALTON REGION BRANCH — C$837,651 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetEva Rothwell Centre — C$775,256 over 8y, 17% of budgetSupport & Housing - Halton — C$737,033 over 8y, 10% of budgetCommunity Living Oakville — C$714,886 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCommunity Living Burlington — C$714,560 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetSexual Assault & Violence Intervention Services of Halton — C$691,271 over 8y, 12% of budgetEFry Hope and Help for Women — C$688,482 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetGlobal Citizens Care for Underprivileged and Refugee — C$677,694 over 6y, 21% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Toronto — C$652,153 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHalton Food For Thought — C$643,757 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetCatholic Youth Organization — C$614,828 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association Hamilton Branch — C$574,759 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetThe Hamilton Young Women's Christian Association — C$572,645 over 6y, 61% of budgetAlternatives for Youth - AY — C$572,379 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetMilton Community Resource Centre — C$569,740 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetThe Living Rock Ministries — C$563,846 over 8y, 11% of budgetHalton Alcohol and Drug Assessment Prevention and Treatment — C$559,704 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Halton — C$525,875 over 3y, 27% of budgetOakville Community Foundation — C$515,928 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetSt. Matthew's House — C$507,233 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetOakville Crisis Centre — C$480,955 over 7y, 32% of budgetThe Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children — C$457,382 over 8y, 10% of budgetThe Women's Centre of Halton — C$438,545 over 7y, 24% of budgetUnited Way of Canada — C$417,544 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetReach Out Centre for Kids — C$404,313 over 3y, 25% of budgetSexual Assault Centre Hamilton and Area SACHA — C$395,898 over 7y, 10% of budgetOakville Parent-Child Centre — C$381,998 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetCommunity Living North Halton — C$376,947 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHalton Multicultural Council Inc. — C$364,710 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Living Hamilton — C$349,492 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSocial Planning and Research Council of Hamilton — C$348,514 over 8y, 0.6% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds Thrive Counselling Services Halton Inc. ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF HALTON AND HAMILTON ↗
  • Who funds Reach Out Centre for Kids (ROCK) ↗
  • Who funds Support & Housing Halton ↗
  • Who funds Acclaim Health and Community Care Services ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Windsor-Essex County ↗
  • Who funds Social Planning & Research Council of Hamilton ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford ↗
  • Who funds Wesley Urban Ministries Inc. ↗
  • Who funds YWCA Hamilton ↗
  • Who funds Radius Child and Youth Services ↗
  • Who funds Distress Centre - North Halton ↗
  • Who funds Nelson Youth Centres ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Family Services of Hamilton - Wentworth ↗
  • Who funds Community Development Halton ↗
  • Who funds Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' & Girls' Club ↗
  • Who funds Food for Life Canada ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION-HALTON REGION BRANCH ↗
  • Who funds Eva Rothwell Centre ↗
  • Who funds Support & Housing - Halton ↗
  • Who funds Community Living Oakville ↗
  • Who funds Community Living Burlington ↗
  • Who funds Sexual Assault & Violence Intervention Services of Halton ↗
  • Who funds EFry Hope and Help for Women ↗
  • Who funds Global Citizens Care for Underprivileged and Refugee ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Greater Toronto ↗
  • Who funds Halton Food For Thought ↗
  • Who funds Catholic Youth Organization ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Mental Health Association Hamilton Branch ↗
  • Who funds The Hamilton Young Women's Christian Association ↗
  • Who funds Alternatives for Youth - AY ↗
  • Who funds Milton Community Resource Centre ↗
  • Who funds The Living Rock Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Halton Alcohol and Drug Assessment Prevention and Treatment ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton ↗
  • Who funds Oakville Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds St. Matthew's House ↗
  • Who funds Oakville Crisis Centre ↗
  • Who funds The Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of OakvilleThe Chml Children's F…Hamilton-Wentworth Re…Burlington Community …United Way of Canada …United Way of Halton …The May Court Club of…The United Way of Mil…Hamilton Community Fo…The Rotary Club of Bu…Patrick J McNally Cha…Bulldogs Foundation I…
United Way of OakvilleON38.3× affinity117 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Oakville · The Chml Children's Fund · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr · Burlington Community Foundation · United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada · United Way of Halton Hills · The May Court Club of Oakville · The United Way of Milton · Hamilton Community Foundation · The Rotary Club of Burlington Central Trust Fund · Patrick J McNally Charitable Foundation · Bulldogs Foundation Inc.

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 1776 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 107462988:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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