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THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Ontario) receives grants from 49 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,926,276 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$1,127,196). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$7.1M
Revenue FY2024
49
Funders on record
C$2.9M
Grants received
C$13M
Net assets
30/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 40%

Against its field

THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS has grown faster than three-quarters of the 121 animal welfare nonprofits its size.

Operating margin16% · above the median
Months of reserve1.9mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)47% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 121 animal welfare nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$486k) Expenses 100 (C$570k) Net assets 100 (C$6.9M)2018 Revenue 468 (C$2.3M) Expenses 419 (C$2.4M) Net assets 98 (C$6.8M)2019 Revenue 522 (C$2.5M) Expenses 427 (C$2.4M) Net assets 103 (C$7.2M)2020 Revenue 654 (C$3.2M) Expenses 459 (C$2.6M) Net assets 110 (C$7.7M)2021 Revenue 719 (C$3.5M) Expenses 384 (C$2.2M) Net assets 129 (C$9.0M)2022 Revenue 792 (C$3.9M) Expenses 474 (C$2.7M) Net assets 146 (C$10M)2023 Revenue 1197 (C$5.8M) Expenses 652 (C$3.7M) Net assets 176 (C$12M)2024 Revenue 1470 (C$7.1M) Expenses 1050 (C$6.0M) Net assets 193 (C$13M)
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Revenue (1470)Expenses (1050)Net assets (193)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 2% · 2020 0% · 2021 10% · 2022 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 11%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

34% of THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (50% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 121 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$84k
’17
−C$112k
’18
C$107k
’19
C$566k
’20
C$1.3M
’21
C$1.1M
’22
C$2.1M
’23
C$1.2M
’24
1.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 22 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose C$193k → C$422k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$385k
C$93k
C$29k
C$16k
Canada Givesunclassified
C$10k
C$9k
C$3k
Klass Foundationunclassified
C$2k
funders
22
23
22
22
21
22
19
19

From the CRA filings of THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 69%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

39%
largest funder
69%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 41% · 2019 29% · 2020 44% · 2021 37% · 2022 40% · 2023 45% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

49% of THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 61% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

89% of THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$1.3M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 49 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government revenue THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$755k
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  • 11% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ontario

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 18%Fundraising 14%

Governance

12
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (Ontario) receives grants from 49 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,926,276 to it, the largest being HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$1,127,196). 30 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 49 organizations giving C$2,926,276 in grants to THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS, 30 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS?
HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,127,196 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE HAMILTON/BURLINGTON SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

Play a game about who funds Hamilton/Burlington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals →

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 49 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register