Hamilton Conservation Foundation
Public foundation · Ancaster, Ontario · BN 859975617RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($632,142) as filed with the CRA.
Hamilton Conservation Foundation is a public foundation based in Ancaster, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $632K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $125K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $827K in 2024, the largest being $827K to Hamilton Region Conservation Authority. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $314K in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Supporting outdoor environmental education support for maintenance of passive recreational assets support for maintenance of heritage properties
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $632K | — | — | $827K | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $955K | — | — | $874K | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $931K | $791K | — | — | $736K | $2.9M |
| 2021 | $545K | $245K | — | — | $226K | $2.8M |
| 2020 | $314K | $561K | — | — | $538K | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $827K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $125K from 12 charities:
- Hamilton Community Foundation$67K
- Aqueduct Foundation$22K
- Incite Foundation for the Arts$10K
- Greenbelt Foundation$5,000
- The Charitable Trust of the Rotary Club of Ancaster Morning$5,000
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,510
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,108
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$830
- National Steel Car Limited Employees Charitable Donation Fund$500
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Suresh Daljeet (director); Kathy Lacasse (chair); Graham Reid (vice-chair); Paul Keast (secretary treasurer); Andre Chabot (director); Margaret Reid (director); Colleen Martin (director); Erin Moraghan (director); Jessica Turchet (director); Natalie Walker (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hamilton Conservation Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859975617RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.