Hamilton Community Foundation
Public foundation · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 130527427RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($16,131,790) as filed with the CRA.
Hamilton Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $33.5M in revenue and $16.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $577K.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 396 qualified donees totalling $12.1M in 2024, the largest being $516K to The Bruce Trail Conservancy. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Hamilton community foundation drives positive change in hamilton by building and managing endowed and other charitable funds and making strategic and effective grants and loans to charitable organizations and initiatives. We facilitate growth of philanthropy act as a knowledge resource and as a catalyst for community problem solving and by bringing together people ideas and resources. Our grants are disbursed to qualified recipients primarily but not exclusively in hamilton. We serve all sectors of our city; arts and culture education and environment recreation health and services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $33.5M | $16.1M | $1.6M | $11.4M | $12.3M | $276.2M |
| 2023 | $17.6M | $15.6M | $1.1M | $1.1M | $12.3M | $258.9M |
| 2022 | $21.2M | $16.3M | $1.3M | $989K | $13.2M | $257.1M |
| 2021 | $69.4M | $15.4M | $1.2M | $856K | $12.4M | $252.2M |
| 2020 | $22.9M | $13.7M | $1.2M | $922K | $10.6M | $198.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $12.1M to 396 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Bruce Trail Conservancy$516K
- McMaster University$391K
- Hamilton's Centre for Civic Inclusion$385K
- YWCA Hamilton$375K
- Niwasa Kendaaswin Teg$335K
- Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board$311K
- The Learning Enrichment Foundation$300K
- Interval House of Hamilton-Wentworth$257K
- The Hamilton/burlington Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$206K
- ST Matthew's House$196K
- Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' & Girls' Club$192K
- Global Citizens Care for Underprivileged and Refugee Empowerment Inc.$183K
- City of Hamilton$173K
- The Good Shepherd Centre Hamilton$138K
- Hamilton Foundation for Student Success$136K
- Hamilton Community Legal Clinic / Clinique Juridique Communautaire de Hamilton$135K
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$135K
- YMCA of Hamilton/burlington/brantford$134K
- The Art Gallery of Hamilton$126K
- The John Howard Society of Hamilton Burlington & Area$125K
- The Mohawk College Foundation$118K
- The Conserver Society of Hamilton and District Inc.$109K
- Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation$106K
- The DR. Bob Kemp Hospice Foundation Inc.$104K
- Eva Rothwell Centre$103K
Received $577K from 18 charities:
- The Fairmount Foundation$250K
- The Atkinson Charitable Foundation$119K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$104K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$42K
- Aqueduct Foundation$30K
- The Bradstreet Family Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- Rotary Club of Hamilton Sunshine Fund$4,125
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4,000
- The Liuna Charitable Foundation$2,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,437
- Harry and Barb Silverberg Family Charitable Foundation$1,750
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$1,500
- Abundance Canada$1,200
- Oakville Community Foundation$1,000
- Link Charity Canada Inc$300
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$24
- Community Foundations of Canada-$22K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brooke Eady (director); Assad Hoosein (director); Pranav Pandya (director); Sandra Edrupt (treasurer); Cam Beatty (director); Kristine Beaupre (director); Charles Criminisi (director); Elizabeth Gray (director); Tracey Carr (director); Sarah Murphy (past chair); Cattari Laura (director); Cheryl Jensen (chair); Haider Saeed (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hamilton Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130527427RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.