Oakville, ON · Public foundation
Zonta Club of Oakville Trust Fund
Empowering women through services and advocacy.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under C$10k8 grants · C$36k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OAKVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$25,000 |
| SHIFRA HOME | C$14,840 |
| SAVIS OF HALTON | C$5,580 |
| KERR STREET MISSION | C$5,400 |
| WORLD VISION CANADA | C$5,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S CENTRE OF HALTON | C$5,000 |
| HALTON WOMEN'S PLACE | C$5,000 |
| SHERIDAN COLLEGE | C$5,000 |
| HOME SUITE HOPE | C$3,400 |
| HIPPY HALTON | C$1,500 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.
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
- OHOAKVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · C$200k · revenue +73%
- SOSAVIS OF HALTON7× · 2017–2023 · C$55k · revenue +137%
- SHSHIFRA HOME7× · 2017–2023 · C$45k · revenue +361%
Funded once
- FFFoundation for cancer wellnessone grant, 2017 · C$2k
- THTHE HALTON LEARING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue +12%
- AHART HOUSEone grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue +18%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
The charity provided temporary emergency shelter for more than 250 women and families leaving situations of intimate partner violence (IPV) at the Bryony House Shelter. Programs offered at the shelter consisted of one-on-one supportive…
Huron safe homes for youth is a consulting referral short term residential crisis intervention program designed for youth (16 years of age and over) and where appropriate their families.
Provide safe and affordable housing solutions through an overnight emergency drop-in/shelter; transitional housing for women and children fleeing violence; permanent affordable housing for women gender diverse people and families; and…
1. Provide safe shelter and supports to woman and children experiencing family violence and all forms of gender-based violence since 1996. Access to 22 funded safe beds serving 30 woman and children. Also a 24-hour crisis line. 2. Women’s…
Non-profit community based vocational rehabilitation program servicing the needs of Halton residents facing mental health and addiction issues. Pre-Employment Program offers individuals support and guidance to develop independent…
North Halton Distress Center provides telephone support to people in our communities to better cope with crisis and emotional stress.
We provide support for people with mental health and/or addiction concerns through our case management programs. We also provide support for people in crisis through our crisis programs. Our Ontario Structured Psychotherapy program…
Community based assessment and treatment for persons with alcohol drug or gambling problems. community based assessment and treatment for probationers and parolees. assessment treatment and education services for those convicted of…
Yorktown Shelter for Women (YSW) provides a safe and secure haven for women and their children fleeing an abusive relationship. The shelter is staffed 24 hours a day by a multilingual and multicultural team, who are committed to the…
Smart Start Halton - designed to assist with the uptake of the Canada Learning Bond for eligible families in Halton. Halton Community Benefits Network - designed to work towards the establishment of community benefits agreements in Halton…
Housing help centre - hamilton and area (the 'centre') is a non-profit social service agency that has acted as a portal to housing services since 1988. the centre provides information advocacy and support to people who need housing…
Provide low cost housing to families at risk of homelessness
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Halton Women's Place and the most unlike its peers is Oakville Hospital Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 15 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 OAKVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAVIS OF HALTON ↗
- Who funds SHIFRA HOME ↗
- Who funds HALTON WOMEN'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTRE OF HALTON ↗
- Who funds HOME SUITE HOPE ↗
- Who funds SHERIDAN COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KERR STREET MISSION ↗
- Who funds HIPPY HALTON ↗
- Who funds HOPE PLACE CENTRES ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION CANADA ↗
- Who funds THE HALTON LEARING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ART HOUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Oakville Community Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · United Way of Oakville · Burlington Community Foundation · The May Court Club of Oakville · JTC Heersink Foundation · Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar Foundation Inc · Canada Gives · Aqueduct Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Vancouver Foundation
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.