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© 2025 Hamilton Community Foundation. All Right Reserved. Charitable Registration 130527427RR0001
Charles Criminisi

Charles’ governance experience spans five decades. He has chaired many organizations including Sons of Italy (Hamilton & National), Burlington Community Foundation, Villa Italia Retirement Complex, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton Health Sciences, The Sicilian Cultural Society of Hamilton. Charles was a lawyer from 1985 to 2018 and was also a mediator and arbitrator in commercial law disputes and a construction law adjudicator until the end of 2023.

Charles has received several awards including Italian Canadian Citizen of the Year (2010), Festitalia Heritage Award (2015), CIBPA Professional Excellence Award (2018) and Sicilian Ambassador (2022).

Sandra Ramelli is an accomplished strategist, human resources, and organizational development practitioner with experience in multiple sectors including health care, steel and education. For the past decade Sandra has held several senior roles in health care and has served as a trusted advisor and coach to many administrative and physician leaders. She has extensive experience in strategic planning, leadership and team development, quality improvement, human resources and in leading complex transformational change. As an assistant professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, Sandra supports the growth and development of physicians through the delivery of leadership development programs and coaching. In addition to her professional experience, Sandra is a Certified Health Executive, an ICF certified coach, a certified LEADS® coach and facilitator, and is certified in Kaplan-Norton Balanced Scorecard methodology, She holds a Master of Business Administration from York University Schulich School of Business, a Bachelor of Education from the University of Toronto and an Honours Bachelor of Commerce from McMaster University.

As a newly appointed member of the Board of Directors for the Hamilton Community Foundation, Nazia is passionate about promoting equity and inclusion within our Hamilton community. With over a decade of experience in social services, community development and mental health counseling, she has dedicated her career to advocating for marginalized groups, specializing in providing trauma-informed, person-centered care to diverse populations, including children, youth, and older adults. Thought out her career, Nazia has actively contributed to creating inclusive policies and programs. With a Master of Social Work from Wilfrid Laurier University and fluency in multiple languages, she is dedicated to advancing the foundation’s mission to drive positive change and improve the quality of life in Hamilton.

Melissa Alzaeim brings a wealth of experience and a commitment to community engagement, equity, and strategic leadership to the Board of Directors of Hamilton Community Foundation. With a distinguished career spanning academia, non-profit organizations, the private sector, and international development, Melissa is dedicated to driving positive change and fostering inclusive communities.

Her international experience in research operations and grants management, including roles at McMaster University and Sheridan College, highlights her strategic oversight, financial stewardship, and governance expertise.

An immigrant to Canada with a multicultural background and fluency in multiple languages, Melissa’s engagement with diverse communities aligns with the Foundation’s values of equity and Reconciliation. Her skills in project management, strategic planning, financial management, and community engagement are essential for effective governance.

Committed to upholding integrity, ethical leadership, and accountability, Melissa is dedicated to advancing the Foundation’s goals and contributing to a vibrant, diverse, and inclusive Hamilton.

As founder of Mary J Williams Coaching & Consulting Inc, Mary works with leaders across the country as an executive leadership coach and thinking partner. Mary has more than three decades of experience and leadership in educational and not-for-profit advancement. As McMaster University’s past Vice-President, Advancement, Mary led an award winning team with a mandate that included communications and marketing, government and alumni relations and fundraising. At the University of Toronto, Mary supported more than 30 academic divisions in their activities to work towards the university’s $4 billion campaign fundraising goal. As an active volunteer in her communities, Mary has extensive governance experience and has served on a wide range of non-profit boards locally, provincially and nationally. She is a graduate of three universities and has completed the McMaster Chartered Directors program.

Kevin Tom is the Chief Investment Officer of Hamilton based FirstOntario Credit Union. He has over 25 years of experience within the financial services industry in British Columbia and Ontario. One of his current areas of responsibility includes the alternative investments portfolio, which is active in the affordable housing space, through policy advocacy, development and acquisitions.

Kevin is an advocate for social justice and equality. He is involved in organizations that seek to increase the affordable housing inventory in our communities and currently sits on the board of the Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion.

Jason is a born and raised Hamiltonian. An urban planner by profession, Jason led the City of Hamilton’s Planning and Economic Development Department from 2014 to 2024. Currently in private practice as an urban planner, Jason works across the country helping communities of all sizes tackle complex urban challenges. Prior to his career as an urban planner, Jason worked for several years in environmental advocacy, including with local groups such as the Bay Area Restoration Council and Bruce Trail Association. Jason lives in the heart of downtown Hamilton with his partner, where he frequently enjoys experiencing Hamilton’s vibrant arts and entertainment scene.

FINAL REPORTS for 2023-24 grants from the Edith H. Turner Foundation Fund are due DECEMBER 1, 2024. A link to the report form has been emailed to all grantees. If you did not receive this link, please contact Tami Henderson at 905.523.5600 x 241, or t.henderson@hamiltoncommunityfoundation.ca

We are no longer able to accept final reports via email.  Your final report MUST be submitted through the online portal.  To access this form, you will first need to log into your HCF online account through the portal. The final report form can be found under the ‘Requirements’ tab.

A troubleshooting guide can be found here.

Sarah Murphy

Sarah has been involved with the Hamilton Community Foundation since 2007. She has a long track record of community service and is passionate about giving back and has provided volunteer leadership to a number of local charities, service clubs and philanthropic organizations.

Sarah brings to her role extensive experience as lead Portfolio Manager, Senior Wealth Advisor and head of The Murphy Investment Group at CIBC Wood Gundy. With over 20 years of experience, Sarah values educating and empowering her clients, which include individuals, multi-generational families, charities and large institutions. Sarah was chosen as one of Canada’s Top Wealth Advisors: Best in Province by The Globe and Mail and Shook Research.

Amy Montour

Amy Montour is a member of the Six Nations of the Grand River community and brings Two-Eyed Seeing to her role, incorporating her knowledge as an Indigenous person and Western-trained physician to Hamilton Community Foundation’s work.

Amy is currently co-lead for the Division of Indigenous Medicine in the Brant Community Healthcare System and a palliative care physician servicing Six Nations of the Grand River Territory and Haldimand County. Her work focuses on improving the experience of Indigenous people accessing health systems and includes advocacy, education, clinical practice and system innovation.

Cheryl Jensen

Cheryl Jensen is the retired president of Algonquin College and also had a long career at Mohawk College, where she held the title of Vice President, Academic. Cheryl first joined Mohawk as a Chemical Engineering Technology professor in 1983 and served as Dean, Executive Dean, and Vice President of Engineering Technology, Apprenticeship and Corporate Training.

Cheryl has served on numerous boards related to education, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy. She is known for her organizational and community leadership which has been recognized with numerous awards in Hamilton, Ottawa and nationally through the Association of Canadian Community Colleges.

Cam Beatty

Cam Beatty is an accounting and finance professional who is accustomed to advising businesses and not-for-profit organizations, and provides his input and support to HCF through this lens, and with a keen interest in the short- and long-term well-being of the Hamilton community.

Cam has been a Partner of Durward Jones Barkwell & Company LLP (DJB) since 2007 and is the current chair of its executive committee.  In this role, Cam helps to set and shape the firm’s strategic direction as well as serving clients in a variety of industries.

Shylo Elmayan

Shylo Elmayan has over 15 years of experience working in Indigenous community relations. She is currently the Owner and Lead of Niibin Advisory Services, an Indigenous consulting firm specializing in policy development and community engagement.  She was recently the Director of Indigenous Student Services at McMaster University and was responsible for leading a department that supports all aspects of the student experience and success of McMaster’s Indigenous. She had worked previously at McMaster to develop and administer the university’s employment equity census.

Prior joining McMaster, Shylo was a Senior Project Manager with the City of Hamilton and led the development of Hamilton’s first urban Indigenous strategy.  Shylo previously worked at Hydro One Networks progressing to Senior Manager, First Nations and Métis Relations. Other previous employment include policy advisor with the Ontario Ministry of Aboriginal Affairs and tenant rights advocate with Aboriginal Legal Services.

Shylo is Anishinaabe and lives in Caledonia. She is a member of the Long Lake #58 First Nation and her family’s traditional territory is located near Hornepayne, Ontario.  She has a Bachelor’s degree in First Nations Studies and Political Science from the University of British Columbia and Master’s degree in Public Policy and Administration from Toronto Metropolitan University.

Sandra Edrupt

Sandra Edrupt is retired from her role as General Manager Strategy & Business Planning at ArcelorMittal Dofasco and has worked in a variety of management roles in strategy, marketing, quality systems, communications and public affairs, corporate planning and sales.

Sandra is an involved member of the community with extensive governance and other volunteer senior leadership experience with numerous organizations in health care, education, the arts and philanthropy.  Recognition for Sandra’s leadership includes distinguished service awards from both the McMaster Alumni Association and McMaster Association of Part-Time Students.

Pranav Pandya

Pranav Pandya is a financial executive with over 20 years of private market and impact investment experience. He is a Principal at Black Hills Advisory Group, providing investment advisory services to institutional investors. Prior to this role, Pranav was the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at a Toronto-based private equity firm specializing in renewable energy, infrastructure, growth equity, and real estate. Pranav is a member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario.

Haider Saeed

Haider Saeed is a family physician with the Hamilton Family Health Team and the Shelter Health Network. His broad scope of practice brings him in contact with a wide variety of patients, giving him a window into the challenges and stressors they face.

As a medical editor, Haider has a strong understanding of evidence-based medicine and using data to make decisions. He has a long-term interest in urban geography and advocates for people to live healthier lives within cities.

Elizabeth Gray

Elizabeth Gray (Mi’kmaw) was born in New Brunswick and has been an active member of the Hamilton Urban Indigenous Community for over 30 years. She brings over a decade of non-profit board experience to HCF, including serving as a director with Dundas Valley Non-Profit Housing, Sacajawea Non-Profit Housing and De dwa da dehs nye>s Hamilton Aboriginal Health Centre.

Elizabeth holds a BA (McMaster), Master of Social Work (Laurier), an Indigenous Educators Certificate in Indigegogy (Laurier) and a Certificate in Reconciliation, Conflict Prevention and the Promotion of more Inclusive Societies (McGill).

Elizabeth is currently the Indigenous Counsellor for Mohawk College and also volunteers as an advisor for Centre for Community Engaged Narrative Arts, Body Brave, a National Indigenous Advisory Committee for GBV in the Media and the Hamilton Indigenous Consultation Circle. Elizabeth has been named one of Laurier’s Inspiring Indigenous Alumni.

Assad Hoosein

Assad is an award-winning senior leadership professional with over two decades of experience in the architectural, engineering and construction industry.  After more than a decade of working in private sector, Assad has held senior positions with the Niagara Parks Commission, Town of Lincoln, Hamilton Public Library and Conservation Halton.  As a leader in sustainable projects, Assad loves to create innovative, inclusive, and inspiring places and spaces.  As an HCF director, Assad draws from his individual area of expertise in strategic and capital planning to provide sound lived advice.

CityHousing Hamilton
(Sponsor: City of Hamilton)
$21,200
De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre$25,000
Elizabeth Fry Society$5,000
Essential Aid and Family Services of Ontario Inc.$10,000
Good Shepherd Centres Hamilton$25,000
Hamilton Community Legal Clinic$10,000
Hamilton Downtown Mosque$20,000
Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' and Girls' Club$8,800
Hamilton Foodshare$20,000
Hamilton Regional Indian Centre$20,000
HamSMaRT (Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team)
(Sponsor: The AIDS Network)
$10,000
Living Rock Ministries$20,000
Mission Services of Hamilton$25,000
Muslim Association of Hamilton$15,000
Neighbour to Neighbour Centre (Hamilton)$20,000
Refuge
(Sponsor: Empowerment Squared)
$15,000
Shelter Health Network
(Sponsor: Good Shepherd Centres Hamilton)
$10,000
St. Matthew's House$10,000
The Salvation Army Hamilton Booth Centre$25,000
Welcome Inn Community Centre of Hamilton$15,000
Wesley Urban Ministries$25,000
YWCA Hamilton$25,000
Body BraveSupport to meet needs of Hamilton clients unable to access usual hospital supports at this time$10,500
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton HamiltonSupports staff coverage and volunteer training for program to identify and connect with highly vulnerable children in their programs for weekly well-being check-in and encouragement/engagement $15,000
Cancer Assistance ProgramSupport delivery of essentials to clients$7,500
Catholic Children's Aid Society of HamiltonFood security for kinship families and children in care, and basic needs for youth aging out of care$16,000
City Housing HamiltonFood support for highly vulnerable populations, and support for personal hygiene products$5,300
Dr. Bob Kemp HospiceSupport PPE and ipads for patients to stay connected to families$10,000
Elizabeth Fry Society Southern Ontario RegionEssential hygiene, food and childcare needs $5,000
Elliott Heights Baptist ChurchFood support for vulnerable children and families in the Larch After School Program$5,000
Elliot Heights Baptist ChurchMaintain and expand Larch After School program during COVID-19$10,000
Empowerment SquaredSupport to help newcomer families access government assistance and other resources$25,000
Eva Rothwell CentreFood security$4,000
Good Shepherd CentresSupport for most-needed items including food, diapers, hygiene products, and technology to engage with clients$25,000
Grenfell Ministries/Welcome Inn Community Centre of HamiltonPurchase of basic needs and harm reduction supplies for vulnerable people and Overdose Prevention Line and small grants for people just released from corrections$3,500
Hamilton Centre for Civic InclusionSupport to Caremongering program, food security prioritizing racialized and disabled people$15,000
Hamilton Habitat for HumanityProvide free home repairs for vulnerable homeowners living in unsafe conditions$10,000
Hamilton Jewish FederationFood security$5,000
Hamilton Foundation for Student SuccessSupport for equitable access to learning in the Hamilton-Wentworth District School Board$50,000
Hamilton Wentworth Catholic District School BoardSupport for equitable access to learning$30,000
HAMSMaRT/Keeping SixSupport outreach coordinator and peer support worker roles and provide essential supplies for clients$20,000
Immigrants Working CentreTechnology and computer literacy support for newcomer individuals and families$7,020
Institute for Advancements in Mental HealthSupport to meet needs of Hamilton clients unable to access usual hospital supports at this time$10,000
Interval House of HamiltonSupport enabling existing staff to focus on COVID-19 related issues and tasks$4,120
Interval House of HamiltonSupport initiatives to keep women experiencing intimate partner violence safe, connected and comfortable during the pandemic$6,650
Islamic Relief- IR CanadaCulturally appropriate basic necessities for newcomers/refugees, people with low income and seniors$15,000
L'Arche HamiltonTechnology to administer proper care remotely, and to prepare isolation spaces$15,000
Learning Disabilities Association of HaltonProvide supports not covered elsewhere for Hamilton students with learning disabilities and exceptionalities $5,324
Liberty For YouthSupport ability to provide mentorship, mental health and other services online, and to provide basic needs and other support for vulnerable youth affected by pandemic$20,000
Micah House Refugee Reception Services Inc.Support basic needs of tenants in shelter$5,000
Mohawk College Purchase basic needs items for packages for international students/families in financial need$25,000
Neighbour 2 Neighbour CentreSupport food access through gardening for families and individuals living on low-incomes$14,200
Parkview Church of the Christian and Missionary AlliancePurchase essential items for food boxes for people in need$15,000
Refuge: Hamilton Centre for Newcomer Health/Empowerment SquaredSupport translation services for Refuge clients$15,000
Second Harvest Food Support CommitteeExpand foodrescue.ca platform to Hamilton, to facilitate donation of surplus food from businesses to social service organizations$15,000
Sex Workers' Action Program of Hamilton/Hamilton AIDS NetworkSupport for emergency food, housing, transportation, hygiene items and other small grants related needs arising from COVID-19 $5,000
Shalom VillageSupport staff costs for resident care related to COVID-19$24,000
Spinal Cord Injury OntarioOffset administrative costs related to online platforms for staff, clients, family and caregivers$6,000
St. Joseph’s Healthcare FoundationSupport Mobile Nursing Clinic to assist outpatients managing mental illness$50,000
Victorian Order of Nurses - HamiltonMaintain services and connection to clients and caregivers while day and respite care services are closed $5,000
Welcome Inn Community CentreSupport to maintain services to multiple vulnerable populations normally supported by thrift store revenues $25,000
Wellwood Resource CentreContinuation and expansion of transition to virtual programming, online self-help resources and online peer-mentoring$10,000
Wesley Urban MinistriesProvide hot meals to vulnerable people in Hamilton$15,000
YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/BrantfordBasic needs of tenants in transitional housing $25,000
Total$609,114
Afro Canadian Caribbean AssociationOffset revenue loss and buying PPE, sanitation supplies and dividers. $20,000
Afro Canadian Caribbean AssociationCreate a virtual program where seniors can connect and provide culturally-centred mental health supports$30,000
Alzheimer SocietyReconfiguring space, cleaning supplies and costs to continue online and in-person programming$12,300
Ancaster Community ServicesPartial recovery of revenue lost from cancelled fundraisers, purchase of PPE, program costs, purchase of a new staff laptop.$15,000
Big Brothers Big SistersPPE, staffing, equipment and covering youth activitiy fees for in-person physical and social program for youth$15,158
Body BraveCurriculum development and knowledge translation.$10,000
City Kidz MinistryBuying PPE, wages for program delivery, program materials and staff training. $10,000
Culture for Kids in the ArtsMove resonance choir for children and youth with disabilities online$15,000
Dundas Valley School of ArtProgram equipment and equipment for staff to work remotely.$10,000
Dundas Valley School of ArtSupplies for online art therapy for frontline workers$17,100
Dundas Youth ChaplaincyOffsets revenue loss to allow for continuation of programming.$10,000
Elliot Heights Baptist ChurchOffsets revenue loss to allow for continuation of child/youth programming.$10,000
Empowerment SquaredOffsets revenue loss to allow an Educational Program Coordinator for racialized newcomer youth to continue.$10,000
Essential Aid & Family Services of OntarioOffsets revenue loss to allow for providing essential needs.$10,000
Friends of the AviaryOffsets revenue loss to allow vet visits and buying bird food.$8,000
Hamilton Artists Inc.Supports efforts to further engage BIPOC artists in an effective way during and post-pandemic. Also supports BIPOC-focused professional development for staff.$8,000
Hamilton Children's ChoirOnline programming and social distancing practices in-person.$10,000
Hamilton Conservatory for the ArtsTo develop new forms of program delivery in the context of the pandemic.$3,000
Hamilton Jewish FederationFood, hygiene supplies and transportation expenses related to winter essential kits and kosher food bank support$11,500
Hamilton Naturalists' ClubSupports GO Explore outdoor education program in schools.$9,000
Hamilton Philharmonic OrchestraMoving performances online.$15,000
Hamilton Theatre IncSupports replacement of revenue loss.$10,000
Hamilton Youth Steel OrchestraSpace rental and equipment for virtual performances.$20,000
Living Rock MinistriesSupports replacement of revenue loss and buying safety supplies and equipment.$15,000
Micah HouseMaterials related to settlement program for new refugees$18,844
Mohawk College FoundationAddress food security issues related to COVID-19 for Mohawk College Indigenous students/households $20,000
Native Women's CentreSupports board members' ability to connect remotely during the pandemic.$9,081
Neighbour 2 NeighbourOffsets revenue loss used to fund the emergency food program.$10,000
Parkview Church of the Christian and Missionary AllianceSupports replacement of revenue loss.$10,000
Portugese Community SupportOnline programming and preparing physical space and PPE for socially-distanced programing for adults and families with disabilities $8,517
Refuge (Sponsor: Empowerment Squared)Outreach worker and program supplies to support mental health of racialized youth$30,000
Salvation ArmyMobile unit and PPE to allow women on conditional release to safely visit with social supports during pandemic$14,000
Social Planning & Research Council of HamiltonRetrofitting of office space.$2,000
Somali Community in HamiltonOnline programming and safe reopening of offices.$10,000
Somali Community in Hamilton (Sponsor: Afro Canadian Caribbean Association)Educational and other resources to reduce and prevent negative health outcomes$25,000
St. Matthew's HouseMoving fundraising online.$10,000
Student Open CirclesSupports replacement of lost revenue and moving services online.$14,000
Suicide Prevention Community Council of HamiltonSupports replacement of revenue loss.$7,500
The Baby DepotRental of additional space in order to serve more families, and buying PPE. $17,000
The Equestrian Association for the Disabled (T.E.A.D.)Supports replacement of revenue loss.$10,000
The SPACE Youth CentreSafe reopening of offices.$10,000
Tottering Biped TheatreSupports replacement of revenue loss$10,000
Welcome Inn Community CentreFunding for adapting volunteer supports.$10,000
Total$550,000
De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health CentreIndigenous Community Event and Vaccine Education$28,000
Hamilton Social Medical Response Team (HAMSMaRT)Expand peer-based harm reduction work in serving street-entrenched and drug user populations$77,450
The John Howard SocietyCleaning and equipment costs$25,000
Niwasa Kendaaswin TegPoverty reduction worker providing culturally relevant wrap around supports$62,000
Social Planning and Research Council (SPRC)Financial empowerment program supporting Hamiltonian’s access to financial benefits to which they are entitled$75,000
Total$267,450
A Rocha CanadaSupporting grant$15,000
ACORN Institute CanadaHelping tenants access their housing rights during COVID-19$15,000
Afro-Canadian Caribbean AssociationBlack Community Wellness Project: providing culturally appropriate mental health services$46,250
Amity Goodwill IndustriesPandemic community meal relief in support of De Mazanod Door outreach program$44,850
Art Gallery of HamiltonLearn - Artist-led projects for children in Grades K-5$20,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton and HamiltonSystems navigation support for wraparound services$30,000
Body BraveUrgent treatment and support for women struggling with COVID-19-triggered mental illness$20,000
Brott Music FestivalBrott In The Park: Socially distanced concert series$10,000
Cancer Assistance ProgramSupporting drive & ride van program$15,000
Carnegie GalleryProgramming, equipment upgrade and operating assistance$12,500
Catholic Youth OrganizationCamperships and equipment to allow for social distancing$27,600
Centre[3] for Print and Media ArtsArts-based modules for isolated seniors$15,000
City Housing Hamilton Prepared meals for seniors$9,000
Compass Community HealthPathways Hamilton summer food security and social work services$56,000
Culture for Kids in the ArtsSupport for virtual programming$16,650
Dr. Bob Kemp HospiceAdvancing health care directives, grieving during COVID-19, equipment and trauma bereavement supports$30,000
Dundas Valley Orchestra–Support for providing outdoor, distanced rehearsals and concerts$6,980
Dundas Valley School of ArtSupport for fund development staff $20,000
Eagles Nest Association of WaterdownMental health therapy for children and youth$10,000
Elizabeth Fry Society Southern Ontario RegionSupporting grant$10,000
Elliot Heights Baptist ChurchLARCH after-school program - hot meal delivery and re-integration supports$20,000
Factory Media CentreDigital collaboration software and web design for artists$5,000
Filipinas of HamOnt (Sponsor: Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion)Organizing Hamilton Asian Alliance$5,000
Fit Active Beautiful Foundation FAB Girl and volunteer coach recruitment $5,000
Flamborough Information & Community ServicesVirtual programming to support rural seniors$15,000
Ghana Association of Hamilton (Sponsor: Church of Pentecost Canada)Supporting seniors in need through a buddy system$25,000
Good Shepherd CentresIndividual and group social/recreational activities$41,500
Grace Anglican ChurchPurchase of exterior freezer to store donations$37,958
Grenfell MinistriesSurvival supplies for street-involved individuals$10,000
Hamilton & District Extend-A-FamilyTransitions and program expansion$15,000
Hamilton Academy of Performing ArtsSubsidizing tickets for low-income households and seniors to attend The Nutcracker ballet in December $5,000
Hamilton Community Benefits Network Extended medical, mental health, dental and paid sick days for precarious employees $40,000
Hamilton Community Legal Clinic/Clinique juridique communautaire de HamiltonSpeakers series - addressing hate crimes $16,640
Hamilton Community Legal Clinic/Clinique juridique communautaire de HamiltonSocial work supports for mental health consumers$35,000
Hamilton Downtown MosqueFood kits for marginalized families$27,878
Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys and Girls ClubOperational support – grant writer and increased staffing hours$23,000
Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys and Girls ClubMeal kits for families in need$16,000
Hamilton Festival Theatre CompanyBuilding box office and outreach capacity $15,000
Hamilton Filipino Community Centre (Sponsor: Jesus is Live Community Inc.)Malasakit sa Kapwa: A pandemic response aid and data gathering for house-bound Filipinos in Hamilton$5,000
Hamilton Habitat for HumanityAssisting with home repairs for low income individuals/families$20,000
Hamilton International Baptist ChurchTulong sa Pandemya: An aid response, organizing, and basic data collection project for care worker Filipinas in Hamilton$5,000
Hamilton Music CollectiveProgram continuation$20,000
Hamilton Theatre Inc.Sound system installation and safety barriers$10,000
Hamilton Foundation for Student SuccessCritical student needs$100,000
Hamilton Wentworth Catholic District School BoardCritical student needs$80,000
International Association For Refugees CanadaProviding support to refugee claimants$13,361
Immigrants Working CentreProject supports for an Arabic speaking settlement worker$28,702
Indwell Community HomesEnhanced support programs in Hamilton$56,000
Interval House of Hamilton–Continued support for services of mobile mental health worker$44,745
Islamic Relief- IR CanadaBarakah Box - addressing food insecurity$30,000
Jennifer Ashleigh Children's Charity (JACC)Food and shelter needs for seriously ill children in Hamilton$5,000
Learning Disabilities Association of HaltonBuilding capacity and advocacy support$35,341
Empowerment SquaredComputer lab upgrade$26,220
Liberty For YouthMentoring program$30,000
Living Rock MinistriesYouth drop-in and outreach$34,000
Mealshare Aid FoundationRebuilding to Help End Youth Hunger in Hamilton inking restaurants and charitable partners$14,000
Métis Women's CircleSupport for the recovery and mending of pandemic-disrupted relationships$23,050
Mishka Social Services Sanad Case Management & Counselling Program$25,000
Munar Learning Center Digital devices and IT support$5,000
Neighbour to Neighbour CentreSupport for coordinators of community gardens during COVID-19 $7,000
Neighbour to Neighbour CentreSupport to newcomers and persons experiencing ongoing barriers to settlement .$25,000
Niwasa Kendaaswin TegIndigenous support and food security$50,000
Options for Independent Living and DevelopmentIncreased hours for day-program staffing$10,000
Rainbow's End Community Development CorporationEmployment training for mental health consumers$24,000
Refuge: Hamilton Centre for Newcomer Health Support for hiring and training interpreters and cultural facilitators $20,000
Ronald McDonald House Charities South Central Ontario Providing food to families$20,000
Royal Botanical GardensVirtual school field trips$10,000
Second Harvest CanadaRevitalizing food rescue and distribution$20,000
Sex Workers' Action Program of Hamilton Harm reduction packages for sex workers$18,457
Sexual Assault Centre (Hamilton and Area)Support for victims of sexual assault$64,480
Shakespearience Performing ArtsMoving programming on-line$5,500
Shalem Mental Health FoundationOutdoor, distanced art activities for youth$17,212
Start2Finish CanadaMental health supports for families engaged in Start to Finish program$10,000
The AIDS NetworkFood, PPE, and sanitary items$30,000
The Bridge From Prison to CommunityTransitional housing program and wraparound reintegration supports$15,000
The Canadian National Institute for the BlindVirtual programming addressing significantly increased isolation during COVID-19$15,000
The Equestrian Association for the Disabled (T.E.A.D.)Operating support for horses and therapeutic riding instructors$15,000
The Harlequin Singers of HamiltonOperating support$2,500
The John Howard Society of Hamilton, Burlington & AreaEmergency release and reintegration services$54,088
The King's Way Outreach CentreSupporting grant for operational costs$25,000
The Learning PartnershipResources and activities to activate literacy, numeracy and play-based-learning$13,600
The Westdale TheatreFamily movie weekends$10,000
Threshold School of BuildingSupport for job developer position$25,000
Tottering Biped TheatreProject adaptations$20,000
Wayside House of HamiltonIntegrated virtual care and communication program- men with addictions$16,000
Welcome Inn Community CentreFood access and community visitation for seniors$45,000
Wellwood Resource Centre–Self-care kits for people with cancer$15,000
YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/BrantfordSupport rent subsidies for residents facing eviction and for employment counselling services $50,000
YWCA HamiltonMeals, engagement, & capacity building for transitional living program$13,500
Total$2,080,562
De dwa da dehs nye>s Aboriginal Health Centre$25,000
Elizabeth Fry Society$5,000
Essential Aid and Family Services of Ontario Inc.$10,000
Good Shepherd Centres Hamilton$25,000
Hamilton Community Legal Clinic$10,000
Hamilton Food Share$50,000
Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team (HamSMaRT)$10,000
Living Rock Ministries$20,000
Mission Services of Hamilton$25,000
Neighbour to Neighbour Centre (Hamilton)$20,000
Shelter Health Network$10,000
St. Matthew’s House$10,000
The Salvation Army Booth Centre$25,000
Welcome Inn Community Centre of Hamilton$10,000
Wesley Urban Ministries$25,000
YWCA Hamilton$25,000
Total$305,000

Financial highlights

Donations to the Foundation are invested for the long term in public markets and in alternative investments. Investment income is then allocated annually to support granting, community leadership and operations. The summary and charts presented here provide both a financial snapshot and a history of recent activity that underlies the grants and community leadership activities represented in this annual report, made possible by remarkable donors.

Donations

Donations to the Foundation are from individuals, corporations and other charities. Donors may contribute to named endowment or flowthrough funds, to the Board-directed Community Fund, or to HCF’s community leadership projects.

The $35.1 million in donations this year is the second highest total in HCF’s history. Annual donations are influenced by the timing of the realization of donations in wills and significant one-time donations like the $27.7 million in donations of property and private equity. As illustrated in Chart 1, annual donations have ranged between $3.2 and $35.1 million over the past eight years. The five-year rolling average of donations ranges from $5.0 million to $13.3 million over the past eight years.

The five-year rolling average number of donations is 1,787 with 2019-20 at 1,853. The number of donations fluctuates based on “in memoriam” donations and the number and nature of events sponsored by donors to raise money for their funds.

Chart 1

Grants and community leadership

Grants are made annually from both endowed and flowthrough funds. Because flowthrough fund balances are distributed in a shorter time period, granting from these funds can materially influence HCF’s total annual amount granted.

As illustrated in Chart 2, grants and community leadership project spending over the past eight years has ranged from $4.7 million to this year’s historic high of $11.5 million. Granting from endowment funds was reduced in 2013 as a result of the decline in investment returns in 2012 which a) lowered the asset base used for the granting calculation (currently four percent of the fund balances), and b) resulted in less income available to grant. Flowthrough granting and expenditures on community leadership projects has ranged from 22 to 56 percent of total granting in any given year and is dependent on the timing and nature of flowthrough and project activity. At 893, the number of grants for this year is 37 percent higher than the eight-year average.

Chart 2

Investments

Investments traded in active markets are reported at fair market value. Investments not actively traded are recorded at their cost less any impairment of their value.

To support our strategy of aligning our assets with our mission and to provide a more diverse and robust portfolio, HCF has committed to investing in alternative asset classes including loans to charities and not-for-profits, private debt, real estate, infrastructure and private equity. These alternatives are consistent with the Foundation’s long-term investment horizon and liquidity requirements. Since these investments are not actively traded, they are valued at cost in the investments. These alternatives total $25.8 million.

HCF invests according to policy guidelines established by the Board of Directors. Two committees of the Board oversee investments to ensure compliance with the policy:

  • Public market portfolios are managed by two professional investment firms and are overseen by the Finance and Investment Committee. This committee reviews the investment managers’ reports quarterly to assess each manager’s performance and formally evaluates their performance semi-annually.
  • Impact investments are overseen by the Impact Investment Committee, with due diligence and other support from professional consultants.

As an endowment builder, HCF’s policy focuses on long-term investing and is supported by reserve accounts that are currently at their policy maximum.

The investment policy sets out a total portfolio target asset mix, as well as a range around these targets. The public market investment managers have mandates within this targeted asset mix and use their discretion to invest the portfolios within this range. Chart 3 reflects the current and target asset mix. Note: $25 million of private equity relates to a fund established by a donor and is not part of the asset mix or the consolidated portfolio results.

Chart 3

Public markets

Two long-term portfolios are invested in the public markets with Jarislowsky Fraser, and Connor, Clark & Lunn. Chart 4 compares those portfolios against benchmarks as follows:

  • Returns for each year against the annual investment policy benchmark for that year
  • Seven-year annualized return against the seven-year annualized investment policy benchmark
  • Both return rates against the targeted investment policy long-term return range

Benchmarks reflect the performance of each market index based on HCF’s specific target asset mix. Comparing actual results to the benchmark measures the value added by investment managers compared to the average market performance. HCF’s investment policy target is a long-term investment return in the 6.5 to 7.5 percent range.

Chart 4

The effect of the global pandemic has materially affected investment returns, resulting in a -8.4 percent public market return for the year.  The seven-year annualized return at 6.8 percent is within the targeted investment policy range and is 1.2 percent higher than the 5.6 percent benchmark. As noted in the financial highlights, the current 10-year annualized return of 7.0 percent is in the target range and is higher than the benchmark by 1.2 percent.

Impact investments

Impact investments enable donations to endowed funds to drive positive change beyond granting, because they represent investments of capital that deliver financial returns coupled with positive social and/or environmental outcomes. In addition, these investments provide a pool uncorrelated to the public markets which, in turn, buffers the portfolio from the volatility currently experienced.

More than 15 percent of our long-term assets are in impact investments. Chart 5 illustrates HCF’s impact investing progress over the past five years, with $25 million currently placed or outstanding and another $15 million committed. This brings the total commitment to $40 million, up from $34 million last year. Impact investments cover areas including affordable housing, arts, environment and sustainable development.

Chart 5

Locally

Local loans since inception total $9.7 million with $7.1 million outstanding at year end.  Chart 6 shows the impact areas our loans have supported. Since the loan program’s 2012 inception, $2.6 million in loan principal has been repaid and recycled as new loans.  In addition, the interest from these loans supports HCF granting.

Chart 6

Investment Readiness Program (IRP)

IRP is a Government of Canada program being delivered nationally by partners including Community Foundations of Canada. As the first phase in the government’s long-term investment in social finance, the IRP’s goal is to make social-purpose organizations “investment ready” so they can make a difference in new and innovative ways through their participation in the social finance market. HCF has partnered with community foundations in London and Niagara, and the McMaster Innovation Park to manage the program regionally on behalf of Community Foundations of Canada.  The first request for proposals for funding in January created enormous interest nationally and garnered 65 submissions to our regional partnership.  Approved funding is expected to be released in June 2020.  As an additional benefit, the IRP brought a growing number of potential opportunities for local loans to HCF’s attention.

Nationally/Globally

These investments include private equity, private debt and real estate investments. Many of these investments are long term in nature, are maintained at cost and do not have a regular income stream.  As these investments are maintained at cost, their results include interest income and realized gains, but not unrealized gains. Results for these investments are closely monitored and are reported when realized. Chart 7 identifies the investment areas, with $18.0 million placed and a total commitment of $33 million across 21 investments.

Chart 7

Total investment returns

Operations

Operating expenses for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2020 total $2.5 million and were 2.5 percent higher than last year. Staffing costs related to the Foundation’s 22 employees represent 70 percent of HCF operating costs.

In addition to breaking out cost by type, operating costs are allocated to each of the Foundation’s operating areas: grants administration, community and philanthropic leadership, community relations and knowledge dissemination, development activities, and administration and governance. Examples of community and philanthropic leadership include convening around the city’s critical issues and fostering the growth of philanthropy by sharing staff time and knowledge to support other charities. Charts 8 and 9 illustrate these costs by operating area and by expense type.

Charts 8 and 9

The Foundation’s annual development expenses are not necessarily attributable to the donations received in that year. The nature of donations to the Foundation can result in costs preceding the receipt of the donation by several years (for example, donations through wills). As a result, consistent with the community foundation sector, operating costs are evaluated by a ratio of total operating expenses to average total assets. Ratios fall within a range depending on the size and stage of the community foundation’s development.

Management considers the ratio of 1.26 percent (1.25 percent in 2019), as illustrated in Chart 10, to be within an acceptable range for a foundation of HCF’s size, stage and level of community leadership, compared against benchmarks established in the community foundation sector. We continue to monitor both the actual results and the benchmarks on an ongoing basis.

Chart 10

Total assets

Hamilton Community Foundation’s total assets of $201 million at March 31, 2020 include balances of HCF funds and funds held on behalf of others at $1.7 million.

HCF fund balances

Hamilton Community Foundation’s fund balances, illustrated in Chart 11, represent accumulated donations plus the net investment earnings on these donations, minus granting and operating costs. Funds include both endowed and flowthrough funds. Endowed funds are held permanently and grant from investment earnings. Flowthrough funds are fully distributed as grants over a pre-determined term.

Chart 11

The fund balances have grown 55 percent to $198 million at the year ended March 31, 2020 from $128 million in 2013. Donations of $35.1 million included $4.4 million in flowthrough donations that were largely distributed as grants in the year and, as a result, do not remain in the fund balances at year end. This results in a modest total funds balance growth of 4.8 per cent for the year. The number of funds has grown 19 percent to 377 from 318 in 2013.

Advisors


Auditors
BDO Canada LLP

Bankers & Custodian
Bank of Montreal and BMO Private Banking

Solicitors
Gowling WLG

Investment Managers
Connor, Clark and Lunn Private Capital Ltd.
Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd.

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Grants by recipient organization I-R
ICNA Relief Food Bank
Brant County10,000
Imagine in the Park Children's Arts Festival/Rotary Club of Hamilton AM
Supporting grant *3,000
Industry Education Council of Hamilton
Hamilton Code Clubs *176,430
Indwell Community Homes
Encouraging creativity and art expression *2,000
Supporting grant *1,000
Interval House of Hamilton
Be More Than a Bystander1,000
Mom's Rock5,000
Supporting grant9,603
The Hero's Journey Program *10,000
Jazz.FM91 Inc.
Supporting grant598
The John Howard Society
ACHIEVES *180,000
YARD program *60,937
Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation
Supporting grant10,500
Journalists for Human Rights
Supporting grant50,000
Jump In Foundation
Physical activation program10,000
Jump Math
Supporting grant50,000
Juravinski Hospital & Cancer Centre Foundation/Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation
Supporting grant2,000
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Supporting grant1,145
Kitchener Waterloo Community Foundation
Green Shield Canada Sherry Peister Community Impact Fund490,000
Lake Avenue Elementary School/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Flash mob presentations3,000
Makerspace Across the Grades5,000
L'Arche Hamilton
Community Café23,270
Creative Hands Art Studio *9,725
Supporting grant650
Learning Disabilities Association of Halton
Reading Rocks expansion and subsidies *2,500
Reading Rocks literacy intervention *7,225
The Learning Partnership
Entrepreneurial Adventure *10,000
Supporting grant25,000
Let's Talk Science
Youth in a digital future *10,000
Supporting grant25,000
Liberty for Youth
Bright Choices *10,000
Prodigal Sonz *5,000
Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children
Supporting grant3,000
Lions Foundation of Canada
Autism Assistance Dog Guide Program2,000
Canine Vision Canada1,785
Wishlist1,000
Living Rock Ministries
Arts of August1,400
Operation Christmas Blessing4,000
Pandemic relief *20,000
Rock Resources25,000
Street-involved young moms650
Supporting grant2,000
Supporting grant *8,007
Weekend program11,609
Loran Scholars Foundation
Supporting grant80,000
Lynwood Charlton Centre
Under the Willows20,000
Supporting grant *4,402
MacNab Street Presbyterian Church
Supporting grant11,959
Make-A-Wish Foundation
Supporting grant500
March of Dimes Canada Non-Profit Housing Corporation
Jason's House2,000
MaRS Discovery District
Centre for Impact Investing75,000
Solutions Lab150,000
SVX25,000
Mathstronauts/McMaster University
STEAM Engine Program *38,390
McGill University
Friends of McGill Hockey200
School of Nursing2,000
McMaster University
Art Gallery2,000
McMaster Community Poverty Initiative2,500
MCYU and Neighbour to Neighbour Mentorship Program *18,700
Midwifery bursary10,000
Museum of Art1,940
Mealshare Aid Foundation
Tackling Youth Hunger in Hamilton20,000
Melrose United Church
Supporting grant6,238
Mission Services of Hamilton
Pandemic relief *25,000
Supporting grant11,704
The 196 *124,950
Youth Wellness Program15,000
Missionaries of Charity
Supporting grant200
Mohawk College
Pathfinder Program35,000
MADD Canada
SmartWheels2,000
Musicata
Supporting grant2,000
Muskoka Conservancy
Supporting grant2,000
Neighbour to Neighbour Centre (Hamilton)
Children and Senior Chinese Community Folk Dance *500
Community Food Centre - Peer Advocate Skills Mentorship2,000
Eco-Explorers and Eco-Advocates *10,000
Food skills programming15,000
Jack Parent Reading Program1,040
Jack Parent Reading Program *15,000
Math Success Program *52,000
Pandemic relief *20,000
Net Ministries of Canada
Supporting grant2,000
Never Gonna Stop Community Centre for the Arts/Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion
Summer programming *2,000
New Hope Community Bikes
Ride Smart *10,000
New Vision United Church
Supporting grant *10,084
Niwasa Kendaaswin Teg
Completing the Circle25,000
NYA:WEH Elementary - HWCDSB *180,000
NYA:WEH Elementary - HWDSB *360,000
Traditional Knowledge and Skills Outreach *20,000
No. 9 Contemporary Art & the Environment
Imagining My Sustainable Community Hamilton *44,000
Notre-Dame de Perpetual-Secours
Supporting grant23,200
The Owl Foundation
Supporting grant4,500
Paroisse Saint-Philippe
Supporting grant8,000
Pathways to Education Canada
Supporting grant *10,000
Philpott Memorial Church
Supporting grant9,096
Players' Guild of Hamilton Inc.
Supporting grant *5,105
Prince of Wales Public School / Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Healthy Cooking on a Budget5,000
Queen Mary School / Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Student programming5,000
Rainbow Railroad
Supporting grant10,000
Rainbow's End Community Development Corporation
Growing Strong25,000
Re-create Outreach Art Studio/Shalem Mental Health Network
Art Journaling: Drawing our way towards mental health *3,839
Textile Stories *11,425
Redeemer University College
Supporting grant4,000
The Rob Freeman Foundation
Supporting grant2,500
Robert Land Community Association/Eva Rothwell Centre
Supporting grant4,424
Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton
Haiti Fund2,000
One Heart, One Soul Campaign10,000
Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation St. Ann's Parish
Supporting grant8,000
Rotary Club of Hamilton AM
Imagine in the Park Children's Arts Festival3,000
Rotary Club of Hamilton Sunshine Fund
Children's Christmas Celebration2,650
CORE Kids - Youth Achievers Program *25,000
Supporting grant *8,007
Royal Botanical Gardens
Supporting grant11,871
Supporting grant *3,883
Royal Canadian Humane Association
Supporting grant *3,621
Royal Conservatory of Music
Supporting grant500
Rygiel Homes Housing Corporation
Supporting grant1,000
Rygiel Supports for Community Living
Supporting grant2,274
Supporting grant *1,713
Community Fund: Unrestricted fund

This fund is used to address the highest charitable priorities in the community.

FundAmount
#HamOnt Forever Fund5,000
A. May Davis Fund41,598
A.H. Tallman Bronze Co. Ltd. Fund21,790
Alfred Charles & Pearl Gertrude Swanwick Fund200,000
Alice Redman Gooch Fund25,025
Alice Vera Morgan Fund338,065
Alphonse Dirse Fund48,344
Anne M. Biggar Fund460,327
Annie S. Nieman Fund36,081
Anonymous fund81,942
Averil Gray & Florence Gray Fund1,172,308
Bertha Savage Fund47,806
Brenda & Reg McGuire Fund5,150
Brenda Morris Fund5,000
Cameron K. MacGillivray Fund9,325
Caroline May Alvey Fund118,000
Catherine C.H. Murray Fund50,050
Charles & Catherine Ralph Fund43,131
Charlotte Cauley Fund34,987
Christina Cooper Fund173,405
Christina I. Hammant Fund250,000
Clare B. Hunter Fund13,079
D. Argue Martin Fund20,340
Dan and Helen Geagan Fund20,174
Daniel T. Lawrie Fund115,529
Diffey Family Fund5,000
Donald A. Cooper Fund40,126
Donald & Alice Cannon Fund14,625
Donald H. Henderson Fund408,597
Donald J. Allan Fund103,514
Doreen & Gordon Birk Fund98,409
Doris M. Allen Fund172,918
Dorothy & Travice Broadbent Fund7,000
Dorothy Cauley Fund78,831
Dorothy I. Linfoot Fund20,588
Dr. Alexander A. Numbers Fund5,844
Dr. Carl Martin Memorial Fund5,000
Dr. Ronald P. Graham Fund16,814
E. Francis Dennee Fund24,322
Edna E.R. Reeves Fund78,766
Edna Fern Flewelling Fund29,761
Edna Robertson Memorial Fund29,000
Eleanor Foster Fund869,072
Eleanor Jean Milton Fund63,610
Eleanor M. Smith Fund10,000
Elizabeth Lee Fund11,775
Elizabeth Mary Hamilton Fund30,000
Elsie M. Husband Fund12,300
Erie Hossack Fund58,638
Erma Z.L. Goering Fund888,437
Ernest & Ruth Brunton Fund28,000
Ethel H. Prouse Fund181,684
Eulalia D. Wall Fund170,977
Evelyn & Richard Geraghty Storms Memorial Fund25,000
Evelyn Patricia Lyons Fund5,000
Fell Family Fund38,065
Flora L. McNeil Fund30,165
Florabel Condy Fund25,000
Frances W. Ambrose Fund5,600
Francis Spence Hutton Fund32,650
Frederick J. Mills Fund26,189
Gallagher Family Fund82,700
George Earle Drewett and Arline Myra Drewett Memorial Fund50,000
Gilbert P.V. Belton Fund175,088
Gladys A. Whittaker Fund26,205
Gordon & Ethel Holmes Fund97,572
Grace J. Smith Fund13,030
Hanna & Joseph Dubeck Fund5,000
Harold E. Clarke Fund86,120
Harvey and Audrey Smith Fund544,860
Helen Gertrude Harrison Fund34,222
Helen Mary Archambeault Fund25,316
Henrietta F. Campbell Fund104,959
Herbert P. and I. Flora Frid Fund354,466
Horace A. Bennett Fund10,000
Howard & Edna Tugman Memorial Fund100,000
Ian & Donna Cowan Fund5,750
Irene Caldwell Memorial Fund10,000
J.M. Walter Hahn Fund5,000
Jack A. Winser Fund155,007
Jack McNie Fund26,000
James & Irene Wilson Fund6,000
James & Mary Phin Fund106,545
James D. Redmond Fund6,033
Jane Milanetti Fund13,450
Jessie Rumney Fund10,000
Joan W. Rutherford Fund5,000
John and Joan Bothwell Fund10,000
John H. Frid Fund548,347
John Shea Memorial Fund8,387
Josephine Magee Fund204,057
Kathleen L. McBride Fund11,632,794
Kathryn Jones Fund30,186
Lakin Family Fund14,580
Laurence Cholwill Patterson Fund351,146
Leanora M. Spicer Fund26,600
Lillian Boyd Barnby Fund10,000
Lindsay M. McLennan Fund78,022
Lois G. Greenall Fund145,085
Lulu Blanche Hart & Harry Utter Hart Memorial Fund778,782
M. Jessie Chagnon Fund71,196
Mabel Beatrice Studd Fund15,000
Mabel D. Leadlay Fund75,891
Margaret & William Gilmour Fund8,380
Margaret Anne Hayward Fund797,598
Margaret E. Tschetter Fund383,739
Marjorie L. Allan Fund5,000
Marjorie Wild Fund30,724
Marnie & Bill Brehm Family Fund39,500
Marnie Spears Fund22,195
Martha McKinnell Serrels Fund94,682
Mary & Earl Brooks Fund1,354,969
Mary E. Hatch Fund116,000
Mildred E. Hunter Fund100,878
Mount Hamilton United Church Legacy Fund20,000
Noreen & Seymour Wigle Fund15,000
Patricia Eileen Smith Fund5,150
Peter & Rose Marie Palmer Fund7,385
Petra Cooke Memorial Fund31,300
Project Sunday Fund8,771
Ralph E. Ingraham Fund16,017
Ralph W. & Evelyn J. Cooper Fund151,000
Renate & Bob Davidson Fund11,000
Reynolds Family Fund141,839
Robert C. & L. Ann Glass Fund100,000
Robert D. Crockford Fund14,075
Robert George Sparre Fund34,410
Robert J. & Joan Harrison Fund10,266
Robert P. McBride Fund1,636,012
Royal Hamilton College of Music Faculty Fund5,963
Russell & Mae Lindley Fund10,400
Ruth G. & Fred J. Spencer Fund23,000
The Samuel & Dora McFarlane Fund14,000
Samuel Ringer Fund70,586
Sandra & John Black Fund160,594
Sarah Smith Fund230,729
The Spectator Fund10,000
Stait Family Fund†
Stewart Philp Fund45,000
Tim and Dale Langs Fund189,409
Tod Laing Fund7,950
The Unicorn Fund12,611
Vangie M. Crosthwaite Fund41,292
Vera M. Elwin Fund536,235
Vincenza Travale Fund21,200
W. Jones Fund25,920
West-Moynes Fund8,500
Wheeler Family Fund10,900
William F. Brand Fund8,404
William Gordon Kitchener Fund60,000
William S. Sparham Fund25,236

Thank you to our 2019-20 donors:
Layla Abdulrahim-MooreMatt & Sarah GoodmanScott Page & Vanessa Foreman Page
Mary AduckiewiczSusan GoodmanPeter & Rose Marie Palmer
Agro Zaffiro LLPGrant Thornton LLPMichael Parente
Jane E. AllisonGreen Shield CanadaJane E. Peacock
Jane AndersonLisa HabisreutingerJennifer Pearson
Jill AndersonTanis HallTerri Petrachek
Peter AndersonBrian & Morag HalseyRaong Phalavong
Maria AntonakosDavid HamberShirley Picken
Annette Aquin & David MalcolmHamilton Foundation for Student SuccessThe Pioneer Group Inc.
Callie ArcherHamilton Health Sciences CorporationSteve & Mary Prime
H. Anthony & Anne ArrellHamilton Law AssociationElisha Proietti
The Honourable Harrison S. Arrell & Diane ArrellHamilton Technology CentrePunk Rock Realty, Inc.
The Atkinson Charitable FoundationAnnette HammJudith Pyke
Robert & Carol BalintElizabeth HarrisRally Assets Inc.
JoAnne BarresiRoberta D. HarrisCarol Rand
Glenn & Kim BarrettBarbara HarwoodGail Rappolt
Dr. Philippe & Mary BarretteRhoda HassmannDiane Rawsthorn
Bay Area Science & Engineering FairHasty Market CorporationJim Ray & Annette Dufresne-Ray
Bentley Systems, IncorporatedRuth HatchPaul Ray
Robert P. BeresMaureen HayesBrian Reid
Robert & Marion BethuneDr. Joan B. HeelsHeather Rex
Bike for Mike supportersCorey Helie-MastersGabrielle Richards
Charles & Rosi BisaroRob & Tami HendersonDon & Ann Ridpath
John & Sandra BlackHeidi HenschelRise and Shine-Strategic B2B Content Marketing
Julie BoatengThomas A. HickeyCarol Ritchie
Katharine L. BorczakHigher Education Quality Council of Ontario (HEQCO)Tanya Ritchie
Edward G. & Karin BossenceGeoffrey H. HogarthSusan M. Roberts
Duane BouyeaCathy HollandGail Robinson-Gow
Katherine BraedleyAssad HooseinBarbara E. Rogers
Maria BraguesNathan H. HoughLarry Roos
Bill & Marnie BrehmWendy J. HoughRotary Club of Hamilton Sunshine Fund
Adele BrierleyEmily M. HuntNancy K. Rundle
Ray Brillinger & Cy HackBruce & Linda HutchinsonJohn & Dr. Leila W. M. Ryan
Broadcast Services International Inc.The Hutton familySheila Sammon
Hazel M. BrokerDean JeffriesBrennan Sarich
Browne Law Office Professional CorporationShirley A. JohnsonStu Saunders
Ernest & Ruth BruntonNigel JohnstonBob & Peggy Savage
Burlington Parks & Open Space FriendsRosalind JohnstonErik Schaefer & Amy Lazier Schaefer
Mary BuzzellJim JonesSandy J. Schwenger
Cake & Loaf Bakery Ltd.Kabuki Spa & Skin CentreStan & Keitha Seneco
Dr. Gordon CameronGreg & Danielle KaiserLori Serafini
Neil & Judy CameronBarry J. KayKaren Shaver
Ward CampbellJennifer KayeDonna Sheldrake
Alice A. CannonKatharine R. Kingsmill MarsalesCourtney Sheppard
Janet E. A. CannonCarolyn KinsleyJonathan Shrubsole
Paul & Sara CannonHelen KirkpatrickRisa Shuman
Stewart & Jane CapellRob & Melissa KlaverTeresa Silvestro
Richard & Carole CaplingMike A. KlukJohn Simpson
Mike CarnegieMarinus J. KokKim Smith
Dr. Ignacio CastilloMiriam P. KramerTeresa Smith
Sharon ChartersJohn KrawchenkoMelanie Sodtka
Denise ChristophersonAlyssa LaiMarnie Spears
Benjamin J. CipriettiSara LaidlawSt. Joseph's Health System
City of HamiltonPaul & Pam LakinVictoria Staite
Alan & Marlies ClarkStuart LaurieSandra Stephenson
John ClintonJanice M. LawsonDoreen Stermann
Derek CollinsMelissa LeaistPatrick K. Sun
Columbia International CollegeAnn LeonCarolyn F. Swadron
Connor, Clark & Lunn FoundationElizabeth LesserCharles & Ret Swire
Conserver Society of Hamilton & District, Inc.Dr. Mark & Hinda LevineGlen & Debra Swire
Terry Cooke & Maureen WilsonJoy LevyElisha Szafran
William CookeAngel LiPauline Taggart
Elizabeth CoonsDr. Dana LiangRose Taylor-Weale
Chantal CopithornCeleste LicorishAnne Tennier
Georgia CorkinsLodge of the Ancient LandmarksDr. Robert & Deborah Tester
R. Ian CowanLosani Family Foundation Fund supportersJoshua E., Amy & Liam Thorne
Jeannie CrawfordJoan LowryMargaret E. Thurston
Robert D. CrockfordJohn MacDonald & Susan GreerHelen Tomasik
Francina CunninghamShylah MacIntyreDr. Ninh Tran & Sarah Bennett
Margaret CunningtonAlix MacLeanVincenza Travale
Ray & Joanne CunningtonE. Shirley MacnamaraRoss & C. Anne Tucker
Lisa DaliaJean MadadiKerry Turcotte
Dr. Juliet DanielDr. Kim MaddenLaura Turkstra
Kenna-Lynn DanyliwMaple Leaf Centre for Action on Food SecurityPeter & Karen Turkstra
Dr. Liane DaveyRick & Anne MartinSarah Turkstra
Bob & Renate DavidsonGinny MattuzziLaura Tutte
Rosaline DeanMary McClellandKenneth J. Tyler
Paul Del BelloStacie McCormickUnicorn Rebellion
William M. & Susan J. DellSheila M. McDougallUnMarketing Inc.
Sabrina DenicolaJames & Laura McGrathMark & Jentine Van Beveren
Francis A. DeSantisDr. Don & Kathryne McLeanJoan Van Damme
Alan R. & Joan DessauMcMaster UniversityPaul Vayda
Lori Dessau TauberMcMaster University Women’s Health ReviewVincero Capital Management Inc.
Terry & Grace DiffeyWendy McNallyAlan & Janet Walker
Kevin & Karen DoreRev. Alan & Maureen McPhersonGeoffrey F. & Joan Walker
Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice FoundationArchie J. McQueenRandall E. Walker
Sandra L. EdruptThe Honourable Derek Mendes da CostaBarbara J. Wallace
Julie EllisVirginia Mendes da CostaPatricia A. Walsh
William ErnstGrahame & Sheree MeredithYulena Wan & Scott Newport
Dr. Bill & Jane EvansRuth MerzSarah Wardrope
Lois EvansThe Honourable Jane A. MilanettiDr. Gary & Joy Warner
The Fairmount FoundationJohn Mills Sr.Kathy Watts
Kate FeightnerPaul & Carolyn MilneDr. Sarah Wayland
Don FellMartha MitchellBeth Webel
Fengate Asset ManagementAlan MoffettTrevor Westerhoff
The Honourable William Festeryga & Doris FesterygaMortgage TeacherKate Whalen
Find the Red ThreadJenna MortonJean & John Wheeler
Margaret FischbuchDr. Henry & Betty MuggahRob Wiersma & Tracy Varcoe
Frank & Lydia FitzChristina MulderBoris Williams & Sunniva Buskermolen
Peter & Gaye FletcherJustin MulderGwyn & Gail Williams
Tom FloodWilliam & Patricia MungarPeter B. Williamson
FMC Truck Auto & MarineSarah M. MurphyRobin L. Williamson
Freewheel Cycle Inc.Joyce NealRichard Wilson
Melanie FroeseRichard NelsonVeronica Wilson
Patricia FultonChristopher NicholsThe Winnipeg Foundation
Paul GibelJohn & Anna M. NisbetMarnie Wolfe
Mary S. GilmourDermot P. NolanMarita Zaffiro
Richard & Justine GiulianiErin O'NeilJuliana Zaremba
Patricia GloverGerry & Sheila O'ReillyZonta Club of Hamilton I
Bruce Goodbrand & Donna TweedellEileen Page

We would like to acknowledge those people who made a direct financial contribution to ABACUS in 2019-20:
Bentley Systems, IncorporatedSarah GlenDr. Henry & Betty Muggah
The Fairmount FoundationLisa HabisreutingerRose Taylor-Weale

Grants from designated funds Amount
Adam and Olive Clark Memorial Fund15,742
Anonymous188,522
Art and Barb Worth Fund5,838
Barbara and Ronald Bayne Fund3,206
Cygnus Fund1,812
Douglas J. Clark Fund*6,191
Eva Rothwell Resource Centre Fund4,424
Frank Charles Miller Fund*85,237
James P. & Mary S. Phin Charitable Fund10,098
Joe, Filomena and George Seliga Holdings Fund109,753
Phenix Fund for Animal Welfare5,670
Samaritans' Tithe Fund13,277
Stoney Creek Health Fund37,860
United Nations Culture of Peace Hamilton Fund1,265
United Way Fund/Kenneth R. Walsh11,201
Walter & Mildred Danby Fund*22,739
TOTAL522,835
Grants from scholarships and bursary fundsAmount
Albert & Betty Walters Fund400
Amanda Marie Cowan Memorial Scholarship Fund1,284
Bernie Morelli Memorial Bursary Fund1,339
Charlie and Mabel Duncan Memorial Bursary Fund1,339
Christina Hamilton Scholarship Fund4,232
Cowan Family Fund2,416
CPRS Hamilton Legacy Fund2,000
Daniel Giannini Fund45,000
Eugene B. Eastburn Fellowship Fund90,000
General Bursary Fund/Genevieve A. Chaney & Cordelia C. Ensign34,666
Geritol Follies Bursary Fund11,500
Howard Fairclough Organ Scholarship Fund2,600
James Darby Bursary Fund6,800
Jeff Dickins Memorial Fund1,000
Jervis B. Webb Company of Canada (Daifuku) Scholarship Fund27,500
John E. VanDuzer Scholarship Fund2,000
Mildred Dixon Holmes - Artist of the Year Fund2,000
Music Bursary Fund1,934
Ross F. Webb Bursary Fund3,267
Rundle Foreign Study Bursary2,500
Russell & Elizabeth Lindley Fund7,618
William Allison Haynes Fund3,400
TOTAL254,795
Grants from donor-advised funds Amount
Ambery Fund80,000
Anonymous325,872
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Children and Youth Fund11,609
Bisaro Family Fund*2,843
Chedoke Health Foundation Fund150,840
Clark Family Foundation Fund53,000
Cooke Family Fund*1,027
David Davis Memorial Fund1,000
Dr. Bob & Mildred Kemp Palliative Care Education Fund5,000
Ed Smee Conserver Society Environmental Fund6,429
Edith H. Turner Foundation Fund509,314
Elham & Joseph Farah Family Foundation Fund*8,185
Ella Baird & Grace Baird McQueen Memorial Fund/A.J. McQueen2,261
Ellen Creaghan Fund30,000
Fengate Community Foundation Fund*27,068
Fengate Recreation Fund22,725
The Gilmour Fund20,000
Glen & Debra Swire Fund3,030
Great Lakes Trust Fund*981
Green Shield Canada Community Granting Fund2,270,000
Hamilton Spectator Summer Camp Fund60,930
Heather & Ross Hamlin Fund*593,267
Heels Family Vocal Award Fund*13,029
Hogarth Family Foundation Fund303,000
Hugh C. Arrell Memorial Fund3,500
Hundred Waters Foundation Fund*1,552
Hutton Family Fund*103,334
John & Esther Marshall Memorial Fund11,901
John & Mary Reesor Fund7,710
Kathleen C. Nolan Education Fund1,940
Kirkpatrick Fund3,500
Lawyers' Legacy for Children the Ray Harris Fund15,131
Lee Hepner Award Fund1,800
Lois Evans Natural Heritage Fund7,500
Losani Family Foundation Fund95,000
The Malloch Foundation Fund30,000
Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security Fund73,875
Mark & Barbara Nimigan Fund4,000
Marlies & Alan Clark Fund81,000
The Martin Foundation Fund77,825
Mayberry Family Fund*10,683
McCallum, McBride Fund54,900
Meredith Family Fund2,600
Michael Chamberlain Fund60,000
Mildred Dixon Holmes - Youth Orchestra Fund5,640
The Milne McGrath Fund43,064
Ray Brillinger & Cy Hack Fund6,000
The Ron & Gina Fraser Endowment Fund5,489
Rotary Club of Hamilton East-Wentworth Foundation Fund5,000
Shirley M. Elford Artist's Fund2,600
Sons of Italy Hamilton Trieste Lodge Legacy Fund1,000
Tara Lynn Giuliani Foundation14,600
Ted & Karin Bossence Fund*49
Thorne Family Fund5,250
Tran Family Fund*3,298
W. L. Carpenter Memorial Fund*100,436
Williams Family Fund*3,658
The Young Fund*1,755,335
TOTAL 7,100,580
Grants from field-of-interest funds Amount
#HamOntForever Fund2,000
Alfred & Joan Robertshaw Memorial Fund24,958
The Alice Jean Ainsworth Memorial Fund84,551
The Angel Fund*6,311
Anonymous3,370
Antonina Lombardo Fund7,508
Arthur & Helena Lemon Fund5,342
Barbara & Bob Harwood Fund9,479
Barbara Bethune Fund*6,632
Barbara Farnan Fund5,000
Betty & Jack George Family Fund1,438
Bill & Tina Seale Fund16,014
Charles & Ret Swire Fund10,553
Delaware Fund21,563
Dougher Community Fund129,730
Edward & Gladys Halloran Memorial Fund40,411
Everard Hambro Fund2,282
First Place, Hamilton Tomorrow Fund13,008
Florence E.S. Hutton Fund*23,688
Foxcroft Family Youth Fund1,500
Fund for Underprivileged Children32,048
George & Shirley McBride Foundation Fund26,909
Gibson Trust/Town of Flamborough1,713
Giovanni & Grazia Criminisi Literacy Fund*1,780
Hogarth Family Pioneer Energy Fund65,000
Ike & Shahnaz Ahmed Foundation Fund1,300
Jeanne Scott Fund*49,015
Joan C. Watt Memorial Fund1,862
Kenneth Boothe Young & Marie Catherine Young Fund65,055
Lillian & Marvin Goldblatt Family Fund7,339
Lillian M. Shaw Fund14,402
Marchese Health Care 50th Anniversary Legacy Fund5,466
Mary Lauder Cassidy Fund12,800
Nelson Allan Fund7,282
Note-Able Music Fund3,192
Ontario Endowment for Children & Youth in Recreation Fund59,688
Ray Lowes Environmental Fund20,810
Royal Canadian Humane Association Fund3,621
Russell I. Elman Fund65,500
School Nourishment Fund99
School Sisters of Notre Dame Legacy Fund10,808
Shirley M. Elford Gift of Today Fund6,012
Terry & Brenda Yates Fund45,000
The Van Dusen Fund*40,835
Vera & Percy Tomlinson Fund5,267
W. Robert & Marion S. Shivas Conservation Trust Fund15,532
Women 4 Change Fund55,250
Youth & Philanthropy Fund23,236
TOTAL 1,062,158
Grants from Community Fund Amount
ABACUS1,051,945
Community Arts Fund200,000
Community Fund: Environment Endowment Fund63,250
Community Fund: Arts Endowment Fund5,705
Neighbourhoods21,000
Other470,959
Pandemic Response Fund305,000
TOTAL2,117,859
Grants by recipient organization S-Z
The Salvation Army Hamilton Booth Centre
Dundas Stride Circles *14,000
Environmental Community Opportunities project *14,000
Pandemic relief *25,000
Populating the Forest *7,350
Supporting grant6,819
Scientists in School
Hamilton STEM Enrichment10,000
Scleroderma Society of Ontario
Supporting grant10,000
Supporting grant *1,000
Scouts Canada - Central Ontario Service Centre
Supporting grant250
Seniors Activities in Southwest Hamilton
Physical and mental health programs *5,000
Sexual Assault Centre
Supporting grant822
Supporting grant *5,000
Shakespearience Performing Arts
School programs6,000
Shalem Mental Health Network
Counselling Assistance Fund20,000
Shelter Health Network/Canadian Mental Health Association, Hamilton Branch
Pandemic relief *10,000
Supporting grant *2,500
Sheridan College, Oakville Campus
Music, Theatre, Performance500
Shriners Hospitals for Children
Supporting grant1,136
Simon Fraser University
John Juliani Memorial Fund1,000
Skills for Change
Bridging the Gap *17,000
Society of our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (Canada)
Supporting grant39,435
Soroptimist International of Hamilton-Burlington
Live Your Dream5,000
St. Jerome's University
Supporting grant5,000
St. John Ambulance - Hamilton Branch
Therapy Dog Program *8,500
St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation
Mental health services at West 5th location10,000
Supporting grant21,000
St. Joseph's Healthcare
Youth Empowerment Fund5,000
St. Joseph's Home Care
Supporting grant *13,008
St. Joseph's Villa Foundation
Enhancing care *5,000
Hospice care5,000
Smart Board Resident Engagement *20,000
Supporting grant35,000
St. Matthew's House
Adopt-a-Family/Seniors’ Christmas Program4,000
Pandemic relief *10,000
Seniors’ Community Inclusion Project *10,000
Seniors’ Drop-In Support Centre *750
Supporting grant22,845
St. Patrick's Parish
Heritage Fund50,000
Supporting grant272
St. Paul's Presbyterian Church
Supporting grant2,261
St. Raphael's Parish Church
Supporting grant6,000
Start2Finish
Junior Coach Leadership Development Program Expansion *27,000
Running & Reading Clubs13,000
Running & Reading Clubs *17,000
The Stop Community Food Centre
Supporting grant50,000
Student Open Circles
Community Volunteer Circles10,900
Community Volunteer Circles *10,000
Supporting grant1,603
Supporting grant *1,000
Swim, Drink, Fish Canada
Supporting grant500
Swimming with a Mission/Special Olympics Ontario Inc.
Swim lessons *750
T.E.A.D. Equestrian Association for the Disabled
Therapeutic riding *5,099
Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement
Supporting grant50,000
Tastebuds / Social Planning & Research Council of Hamilton
Supporting grant *99
Telling Tales
Community & School Literacy Outreach Project2,000
Community & School Literacy Outreach Project *3,000
Dundas Resident Outreach and Engagement *3,000
Interactive storytelling for kids and their families *8,305
Literacy Outreach Project *8,000
Supporting grant25,000
Tetra Society of North America
Assistive Device Booster Initiative4,000
The Hamilton Burlington SPCA
Care of dogs6,000
Sit! Stay! Read!1,040
Supporting grant115,823
Supporting grant *5,267
The LOST Organization
Supporting grant *3,211
Women's mental health650
The National Ballet of Canada
Supporting grant500
Theatre Ancaster
Supporting grant *5,000
Theatre Aquarius
Indigenous Arts Project2,500
Newcomer Arts Project3,000
Ovation Outreach Enrollment Program5,000
Pay-what-you-can Preview Series *12,500
Supporting grant5,000
Threshold School of Building
Job developer20,000
Supporting grant10,000
Tomorrow's Voices Foundation
Tomorrow's Voices Hamilton7,300
Toronto Festival of Arts, Culture and Creativity o/a Luminato
Supporting grant300
Toronto Foundation
Pandemic Relief Fund50,000
Tottering Biped Theatre Inc.
Shakespeare for at-risk youth *10,200
Trinity United Church
Supporting grant366,667
TVOntario
Supporting grant598
The Tyndale Foundation
Supporting grant2,274
United Way Halton & Hamilton
Supporting grant20,330
University of Guelph
Lang School of Business & Economics10,000
University of Notre Dame
Monogram Fund for Father Scott Giuliani200
University of St. Michael's College
Supporting grant7,500
University of Toronto
President's Club1,000
Urquhart Butterfly Garden/Hamilton Naturalists' Club
Education Program at the Urquhart Butterfly Garden *9,170
Victoria Foundation
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six455,000
Victorian Order of Nurses, Hamilton Branch
Meals on Wheels6,000
Pediatric palliative homecare8,064
Village Theatre (Waterdown) Inc.
Supporting grant *5,000
War Amputations of Canada
Supporting gant1,500
Welcome Inn Community Centre of Hamilton
Isolated seniors650
Learning and Fun *2,826
New Horizons Thrift Store *10,000
Pandemic relief *10,000
Seniors Program Transportation *4,150
Supporting grant5,570
Supporting grant *2,640
Welcome Inn Christmas Celebration2,200
Wellwood Resource Centre of Hamilton
Creative Expression1,901
Men’s peer support6,000
Supporting grant *6,012
Alumni Family Days *5,000
Wesley Urban Ministries
Academic Success and Leadership Development Program *60,000
Nutritious snacks for children4,899
Pandemic relief *25,000
Supporting grant20,704
Women's programming4,000
Youth Housing50,000
Westdale Cinema Group
Street Combers *14,150
Supporting grant5,000
This Is Me *12,550
Westdale Secondary School/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
ESL Literacy Promotion *3,000
Windmill Microlending
Supporting grant50,000
WindsorEssex Community Foundation
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six530,000
Woodland Cultural Centre
Save the Evidence - Give a Brick5,000
Woodview Children's Centre
Supporting grant1,000
Workers Arts & Heritage Centre
Exhibits Prototype Project *10,000
School visits1,500
World Society for the Protection of Animals Canada
Support for Australia1,000
YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford
Beyond the Bell40,000
Camp Wanakita - capital project3,000
Camp Wanakita - counsellor bursary1,000
Camp Wanakita - supporting grant1,000
Flamborough Healthy Youth Network6,100
Peace Medal Breakfast5,000
Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada
Supporting grant *35,000
Women 4 Change Youth Engagement Awards *10,000
YMCA Newcomer Youth Centre *5,000
YWCA Hamilton
Community Connection through the arts *12,100
Family Access Centre Nutrition Project2,500
Food for Thought18,000
Good Beginnings *15,000
Helping Hands for the Holidays at Phoenix Place2,050
Pandemic relief *25,000
Transitional Living Program8,000
Welcome Home Project4,625
YWay@Glendale *17,708
Grants by recipient organization E-H
Elizabeth Bagshaw School/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Bagshaw Bengals Build For Better! *5,000
Elizabeth Fry Society
Release planning/anti-theft programming *30,000
Pandemic relief *5,000
Seasonal outreach3,500
Elliott Heights Baptist Church
LARCH After-school Program31,540
LARCH After-school Program *51,146
Empowerment Squared
Academic Mentoring Program *165,000
Engineers Without Borders (Canada)
Supporting grant75,000
The Equality Effect
Supporting grant75,000
Essential Aid and Family Services of Ontario Inc.
Pandemic relief *10,000
Eva Rothwell Centre
After-school Program12,000
After-school Program*16,232
Robert Land Community food and breakfast programs10,000
Supporting grant8,000
Evergreen
Supporting grant55,000
Famille Marie-Jeunesse Sherbrooke
Supporting grant2,000
Fit Active Beautiful (FAB) Foundation
FAB Girls 5K Challenge *5,000
FAB Girls 5K Challenge and FAB Girls Empowerment Program3,000
Fondation Rideau Hall Foundation
Post-Secondary Access and Success Network *50,000
Food Banks Canada
Supporting grant50,000
Food4Kids Hamilton Halton Niagara
Supporting grant5,000
Weekends Without Hunger *5,000
Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine
Supporting grant5,000
Frank Panabaker Public School/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Stream of Dreams *4,250
Georgian Bay Forever
Supporting grant5,000
Good Shepherd Centres Hamilton
Pandemic relief *25,000
Regina's Place and The Jeanne Scott Parent & Child Resource Centre *15,000
Regina's Place20,000
Regina's Place *10,808
Stimulation Activation Motivation *19,341
Subsidized housing20,000
Supporting grant64,106
Supporting grant *12,255
Trauma Informed Yoga4,500
Youth Reconnect30,000
Greater Hamilton Symphony Association
Supporting grant600
Green Cities Foundation
Hamilton Barton Village Green My City *10,000
Green Venture/Conserver Society of Hamilton & District, Inc.
Green Infrastructure in Dundas: A Cycle Garden Tour *5,000
Nature Ninjas1,500
/EduDeo Ministries
Depave Paradise on Barton *8,000
/Trees for Hamilton
Canopy for Community *17,581
Habitat for Humanity Hamilton
Indigenous Housing Partnership2,000
Haldimand Bird Observatory
Mist nets3,250
Halton Women's Place
Supporting grant2,926
Hamilton Academy of Performing Arts
Nutcracker ticket subsidies *5,000
Hamilton All Star Jazz Band
Supporting grant2,000
Hamilton Artists Inc.
Public programs and outreach *10,000
Hamilton Basketball Association/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Supporting grant22,000
Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion
Hamilton Community Benefits Network *3,000
Hamilton Children's Choir
After-school Choir *10,400
Supporting grant5,000
Hamilton Community Legal Clinic
Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction *50,150
No Hate in the Hammer *2,000
Pandemic relief *10,000
Hamilton Conservation Authority
Supporting grant *10,405
Hamilton Conservation Foundation
EcoCise *12,400
Outdoor Environmental Education in Dundas Valley Conservation Area13,500
Outdoor Environmental Education in Dundas Valley Conservation Area*5,000
Supporting grant1,000
Supporting grant *3,883
Hamilton Conservatory for the Arts Dance Theatre
Imprint: Hamilton *10,000
Hamilton District Society for Disabled Children
Supporting grant658
Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' and Girls' Club
ABACUS at Kiwanis *150,000
Act Out *20,000
Be Kind Rewind *20,000
Brighter Futures2,000
On the Move Girls *6,000
Raising Our Children’s Kids6,000
Sherman Club Community Arts Program15,000
Woodland *15,000
Hamilton East Kiwanis Non-Profit Homes Inc.
South Mountain Support Group *500
Hamilton Festival Theatre Company
Equity Initiative *15,000
Hamilton Food Share
Baby and culturally specific foods4,000
Infant products2,000
Pandemic relief *50,000
Supporting grant151,600
Supporting grant *34,168
Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Bernie Custis Secondary School - YMCA Camp Wanakita10,725
Rainbow Prom500
Rainbow Prom*2,000
Safe Schools: Bullying Prevention and Intervention Review Panel *50,000
Skills Competition and Transition Trailer *20,000
Teacher Small Grants *14,690
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
Summer Internship program7,381
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation
Hamilton General Hospital Stroke Unit10,000
Hybrid Operating Room Project16,763
McMaster Children's Hospital Foundation Medical Equipment786
Supporting grant4,500
W. Leonard and Phyllis Carpenter Memorial Endowment Fund10,000
Hamilton Jewish Federation
Holocaust education *10,000
Hamilton Jewish Social Services
Nourishment 4 Seniors *10,000
Zichronot *4,500
Hamilton Music Collective
An Instrument for Every Child13,043
Collaboration and programming expansion10,000
Mental Wellness Through Music2,000
Supporting grant600
Hamilton Naturalists' Club
Grimsby Wetlands Project2,000
Hess Street School Bioblitz at Amaolo Sanctuary2,000
Invasive species management at Amaolo Nature Sanctuary2,500
Sanctuary Land Trust7,500
Supporting grant2,500
Supporting grant *14,288
Trees Please *5,000
Urquhart Butterfly Garden and projector1,874
Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (2000) Inc.
Children and seniors programming13,600
Children and seniors programming *10,000
Endowment Fund11,000
Mozart & Mendelsohn concert10,000
Outreach program5,000
Supporting grant44,471
Symphony experience for seniors *5,000
Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Supporting grant2,000
Hamilton Regional Indian Centre
Strengthening Hamilton's Aboriginal Education20,000
Hamilton Right to Life
Supporting grant5,000
Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction / Hamilton Community Legal Clinic
Basic Income Research Project *3,000
Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team/The AIDS Network
Pandemic relief *10,000
Hamilton Sustainable Victory Gardens Inc.
Supporting grant2,000
Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board
Bike for Mike KoBi program60,000
Equal Opportunities Fund272
L.E.A.D. Intergenerational Play at Seniors’ Homes *12,500
L.E.A.D. Successful Transitions Project *50,000
Teacher Small Grants *12,201
Hamilton Youth Poets/Lynwood Charlton Centre
Brave Voices13,000
/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Junior Poetics *180,000
Harlequin Singers of Hamilton
Live Concert Series3,500
Healing Arts and Recovery with Peer Support/The John Howard Society
Supporting grant and tenant engagement *15,000
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
Supporting grant2,134
Hearts Together For Haiti
Supporting grant7,500
Hillcrest Elementary School/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Engaging and Promoting Inquisitive Minds5,000
The Hospital for Sick Children
Supporting grant2,525
Grants by recipient organization A-DAmount
735 Firebird Squadron Royal Canadian Air Cadets
Putting the Air in Air Cadets *3,118
A Rocha Canada
Operation Wild Teams *19,000
ACORN Institute Canada
Civic Connections Expansion Project *25,000
Actors Fund of Canada
Supporting grant500
Adult Basic Education Association
Educational Planning Services10,560
Advocacy Centre for the Elderly
Supporting grant *1,870
Alzheimer Society of Hamilton and Halton
Creative Expressions *11,500
Music 4 Memories *7,508
Ancaster Community Services & Information
Youth Empowerment Program *15,000
Ancaster Society for the Performing Arts Corporation
Sinfonia Ancaster3,000
Art Gallery of Burlington
Supporting grant500
Art Gallery of Hamilton
AGH: In-Class10,000
AGH: In-Class *94,020
Children's programs2,500
Supporting grant7,000
Art Gallery of Ontario
Business for the Arts500
Supporting grant2,000
Art With Impact Canada
Art, media, mental health4,000
The Arthritis Society
Supporting grant2,274
Artscape Foundation
Supporting grant50,000
ASHOKA Canada
Supporting grant50,000
Autism Society of Ontario, Hamilton Chapter
Getting into the Game in Hamilton *3,000
Respite programs/services for caregivers500
Support for adults *5,000
Bach Elgar Choir
Supporting grant2,000
Bay Area Restoration Council
Supporting grant432
Beautiful Alleys/Hamilton East Kiwanis Non-Profit Homes Inc.
Birge Street Parkette *10,000
Bernie Custis Secondary School/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Cultural Fair and Carnival500
Planet Friendly Forever 1,000
SLAM Poetry Team1,700
Student Action Against Bullying 5,000
Bill Seven Award Trust
Supporting grant6,000
Bird Studies Canada
Supporting grant2,312
Birthright Organization of Hamilton
Supporting grant7,000
Brant Food for Thought
Universal Student Nutrition Program3,000
The Bridge from Prison to Community (Hamilton)
Supporting grant5,000
Brott Music Festival
Education for Peace music concerts3,000
Bruce Trail Conservancy
Supporting grant3,530
Burlington Civic Chorale
Supporting grant5,000
Burlington Community Foundation
Supporting grant *24,756
Burlington Performing Arts Centre
Supporting grant1,100
Bursary of Hope for Autism
Supporting grant5,000
Canadian Arabic Orchestra
Hamilton programming *10,000
Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division
Supporting grant4,129
Canadian Catholic Organization for Development and Peace
Supporting grant400
Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Supporting grant2,274
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Supporting grant50,000
Canadian Mental Health Association, York Region Branch
Workplace and Community Mental Health150,000
Canadian Mental Health Association, Hamilton Branch
Evening Social Recreation Rehabilitation Program *6,000
Canadian Opera Company
Supporting grant500
The Canadian Red Cross Society
Supporting grant619
Tiffany Circle20,000
The Canadian Stage Corporation
Supporting grant300
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
Education & Kids Camp Program10,000
Cancer Assistance Program City of Hamilton & District
Drive & Ride15,000
Personal Care and Nutritional Supports4,000
Capitol Theatre Heritage Foundation
Children and youth programming5,000
Carpenter Hospice
Care Beyond our Walls20,000
Supporting grant1,000
Casey House Foundation
Capital campaign25,000
Leaders' Circle5,000
Catholic Family Services of Hamilton
St. Martin's Manor2,000
Catholic Youth Organization
Supporting grant543
Central Presbyterian Church
Supporting grant11,748
Chamber Music Hamilton
Supporting grant14,000
Children's Aid Society of Hamilton
Post-secondary bursaries and summer camperships13,000
Summer camperships *7,315
Supporting grant1,000
Christian Horizons Canada
Supporting grant2,274
Christ's Church Cathedral
Supporting grant2,000
City Kidz Ministry
CityYouth Leadership Development5,000
Supporting grant20,000
City of Hamilton
McQuesten Urban Farm121,875
Neighbourhood small grants program20,000
Nurse Family Partnership41,000
Senior isolation reduction initiatives *16,250
Shirley Elford Emerging Artist Prize2,600
Xperience Annex - Youth in Construction5,489
Xperience Annex - Youth in Construction *52,500
CivicAction Leadership Foundation
Supporting grant250
Coady International Institute-St. Francis Xavier University
Supporting grant25,000
The Colin B. Glassco Charitable Foundation for Children
Supporting grant85,000
Community Care of West Niagara
Supporting grant5,000
Community Development Halton
Supporting grant20,000
Community Food Centres Canada
Supporting grant100,000
Community Foundation Grey Bruce
Supporting grant *11,820
Community Foundation of Nova Scotia
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six570,000
Community Foundations of Canada
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six75,000
Supporting grant *43,931
Community Living Hamilton
Supporting grant310
Compass Community Health
Cooking with Compass *20,000
PATH Program *179,160
Pathways to Education - post-secondary scholarships20,000
Pathways to Education - sports and recreation access program *6,500
Pathways to Education - youth mental health worker program25,000
Compass Point Bible Church
541 Eatery & Exchange *1,000
Conservation Halton
Supporting grant *3,883
Conserver Society of Hamilton & District, Inc.
Dundas Turtle Watch and projector1,054
Covenant House Toronto
Supporting grant598
Culture for Kids in the Arts
After-school Arts Program20,000
All Arts Access *10,000
Artasia: Glocal1,500
Artasia: Glocal *35,460
Resonance Choir4,000
Culture of Peace Hamilton/United Nations Association in Canada, Hamilton Branch
Supporting grant1,265
Dave Andreychuk Foundation
Mount Hamilton Minor Hockey544
Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption
Supporting grant1,000
Wendy's Wonderful Kids75,000
De Dwa Da Dehs Nye>S Aboriginal Health Centre
Pandemic relief *25,000
De Mazenod Door Outreach
Supporting grant *5,000
Delta United Church
Supporting grant14,000
Diabetes Canada
Children’s health education2,000
Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice Foundation
Camp Keaton Hamilton10,500
Supporting grant42,860
Dundas Art and Craft Association
Carnegie Kids *5,303
Dundas Baptist Church
The Connect Theatre Project *6,000
Dundas Historical Society Museum
Community and family engagement *5,000
Supporting grant2,000
Dundas Turtle Watch/Conserver Society of Hamilton & District, Inc.
Protect Our Native Turtles *3,439
Dundas Valley Orchestra
Orchestral concert *5,000
Supporting grant1,000
Dundas Valley School of Art
Aging Artfully *15,000
Art Accessibility Program - Family Art Days *10,000
Art Accessibility Program - Foster the Ability Bursary Program3,000
Bursary program *2,282
Piece by Piece *15,000
The Artists' Connection12,000
Dundas Youth Chaplaincy
Routes Youth Centre15,000
Routes Youth Centre *22,000
Board advisory committees

Hamilton Community Foundation’s work is supported by both standing committees of the Board of Directors and board advisory committees. Membership of the board advisory committees includes both board members and a wide range of community volunteers whose expertise we rely on and appreciate.  Standing committees of the board include: Governance & Board Effectiveness, Finance & Investment, and the Impact Investment Committee.

Audit Committee

  • Cameron J. Beatty, CPA, CA, Chair
  • Steve Borsellino, CPA, CMA, CIRP, LIT
  • Dr. Bill Evans
  • Tom Sawyer, CPA, CA
  • Kathy Watts

Chaney-Ensign Bursary Fund

  • Sandra Stephenson, Chair
  • Dr. Maroussia Ahmed
  • Terry Costello*
  • Assad Hoosein
  • Myrna Kelly
    *retired from committee March 2020

Community Fund

  • Laura Cattari
  • Dr. Juliet Daniel
  • Sandra Edrupt
  • Shelly Hill
  • David Hoy
  • Milé Komlen
  • Teresa Smith

Community Health, Education and Research Fund

  • Dr. Bill Evans, Chair
  • Paul Armstrong
  • Dr. Jane Aronson
  • Marion Emo
  • Dr. Gianni Parise
  • Dr. Jenny Ploeg
  • Dr. Leila Ryan

Edith H. Turner Foundation Fund

  • Renate Davidson, Chair
  • Dorothy Bartalos
  • Timothy Bullock
  • Karen Burson
  • Sondra Cornett*
  • Terry Horne, Honourary Member
    *retired from committee November 2019

Finance & Investment Committee

  • Sarah Murphy, B.Eng, CIM, Chair
  • Dr. Justin Cooper
  • Sandra Edrupt
  • Dr. Bill Evans, Vice-Chair
  • Dr. Maroussia Ahmed
  • Kathy Watts
  • Gwyn Williams

Hamilton Spectator Summer Camp Fund

  • Diana Frate

Impact Investment Committee

  • Sarah Murphy, B.Eng, CIM, Chair
  • Sandra Edrupt, Vice-Chair
  • Paul Gibel, FCPA, FCA (Advisor)
  • Assad Hoosein
  • Pranav Pandya, CPA, CA
  • Mario Paron, CPA, CA, CPA (Illinois)*
  • Brooke Eady
  • Bill Young Jr. (Advisor)
  • Marita Zaffiro, BScPhm, MBA
    *resigned from committee December 2019

McCallum, McBride Fund Advisory Committee

  • John McCallum, Chair
  • Kevin Beattie
  • Carole Capling
  • Linda Hughes
  • Debbie-Ann Rashford

Nomination Committee

  • Teresa Smith, HCF Past-Chair/Committee Chair
  • Mayor Fred Eisenberger, City of Hamilton
  • Mark Giavedoni, President, Hamilton Law Association
  • Police Chief Eric Girt, Hamilton Police Service
  • Pat Mandy, member-at-large
  • James McAskill, Chair, United Way Halton & Hamilton
  • Bob Savage, Board Chair, Hamilton Community Foundation
  • Carmela Trombetta, Chair, Hamilton Chamber of Commerce
  • Dr. Gary Warner, member-at-large

Ontario Endowment for Children & Youth in Recreation

  • Tyler Cowie, Chair
  • Don Curry
  • Elizabeth Duvall
  • Rikki Frith
  • Linda Godin
  • Melissa Ricci

as at March 31, 2020

Terry Cooke
President & CEO

Jill Anderson
Director, Philanthropic Services

Annette Aquin, CPA, CA
Executive Vice-President, Finance & Operations

Sharon Charters
Manager, Grants

Grace Diffey, APR, FCPRS
Vice-President, Community Relations

Allan Enriquez
Administrator, Philanthropic Services

Sarah Glen
Manager, Community Initiatives

Matt Goodman
Vice-President, Grants & Community Initiatives

Lisa Habisreutinger
Philanthropic Services Officer

Morag Halsey
Receptionist/Foundation Support Assistant

Tami Henderson
Administrative Assistant, Grants

Jake How
Accountant

Melissa Klaver
Corporate Secretary/Executive Assistant, President & CEO

Angel Li
Senior Accountant

Shylah MacIntyre
Senior Philanthropic Services Officer

Sheree Meredith
Advisor, Philanthropic Services

Michael Parente
Communications Specialist

Jen Pearson
ABACUS Project Manager

Katherine Roy
Scholarship and Bursary Project Lead

Lorraine Valmadrid
Learning & Evaluation Lead

Tracy Varcoe
Administrative Assistant/Webmaster, Community Relations

Yulena Wan, CPA, CA
Manager, Corporate Services

Yvonne Yeoh
Executive Assistant, Finance & Operations

Board of Directors


Bob Savage

VP, Manufacturing, ArcelorMittal Dofasco (retired)
Board Chair

Teresa Smith
President, Hamilton General Hospital (retired)
Past Chair

Dr. Maroussia Ahmed
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of French, McMaster University

Laura Cattari
Advocate, Community Engagement and Media

Dr. Juliet Daniel
Professor, Department of Biology, McMaster University

Brooke Eady, CHRP
President, Broadcast Services International

Sandra Edrupt
General Manager, Strategy & Business Planning, ArcelorMittal Dofasco (retired)

Dr. Bill Evans
Professor Emeritus, Dept. of Oncology, McMaster University
President, Oncosynthesis Consulting Inc.

Assad Hoosein
Manager of Facilities, Hamilton Public Library

Milé Komlen
Managing Director, Ethical Associates Inc.

Sarah Murphy, B.Eng, CIM
Investment Advisor/Portfolio Manager, CIBC Wood Gundy

Mario Paron, CPA, CA, CPA (Illinois)*
Canadian Managing Partner, KPMG Enterprise
*resigned from the Board December 2019

Kathy Watts
Vice-President Finance & CFO, Hamilton Health Sciences (retired)

Marita Zaffiro, BScPhm, MBA
President & CEO, Marchese Health Care

Terry Cooke
President & CEO
Secretary of the Board

Grants by recipient organization

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Grants by recipient organization
735 Firebird Squadron Royal Canadian Air Cadets
Putting the Air in Air Cadets*4,650
ACORN Institute Canada
Tenant education workshops*5,000
Adult Basic Education Association
Educational planning services9,000
The AIDS Network
Queer and Trans Youth Collaborative*30,000
Alzheimer Society of Hamilton and Halton
Music 4 Memories*8,000
Ancaster Community Services & Information
Youth empowerment*15,000
Ancaster Society for the Performing Arts Corporation
Music at Fieldcote1,000
Supporting grant3,000
Art Gallery of Burlington
Supporting grant500
Art Gallery of Hamilton
AGH: In-Class10,000
AGH: In-Class*89,500
Children's programs5,000
Hamilton Community Benefits Network2,800
Hamilton Community Benefits Network*2,200
Supporting grant9,000
Art Gallery of Ontario
Business for the Arts500
Supporting grant2,000
The Arthritis Society
Supporting grant2,336
Artscape Foundation
Supporting grant50,000
ASHOKA Canada
Supporting grant50,000
Astra Society of Hamilton & District
Neighbourhood small grants*600
Autism Society of Ontario, Hamilton Chapter
Caregiver respite500
Bach Elgar Choir
Beethoven Mass in C Major3,000
Supporting grant4,000
Bennetto Middle School/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Supporting grant2,198
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Hamilton & Burlington
In-school mentoring10,000
One-to-one mentors*10,000
Bird Studies Canada
Supporting grant1,751
Birthright Organization of Hamilton
Supporting grant5,000
Brant Food for Thought
Food security5,000
The Bridge from Prison to Community (Hamilton)
Supporting grant5,000
Bruce Trail Conservancy
Driftwood Cove, Tobermory property purchase500,000
Fisher's Pond1,500
Hamilton Region Trail Access Project4,000
Supporting grant2,926
Burlington Civic Chorale
Supporting grant5,500
Burlington Community Foundation
Supporting grant*24,016
Burlington Performing Arts Centre
Supporting grant300
The Calgary Foundation
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six980,000
Cambridge Self-Help Food Bank
Supporting grant5,000
Canadian Cancer Society, Ontario Division
Supporting grant1,673
Canadian Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Supporting grant2,336
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Supporting grant50,000
Canadian Mental Health Association
Peer support training for safe injection site*12,000
Canadian National Institute for the Blind
Lake Joseph Centre250,000
Youth Empowerment10,000
Canadian Opera Company
Supporting grant500
The Canadian Red Cross Society
Supporting grant636
Tiffany Circle10,000
The Canadian Stage Corporation
Supporting grant300
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum
Children's programs2,500
Cancer Assistance Program City of Hamilton & District
Educational podcasts2,000
Personal care and nutrition program3,000
Personal care products*5,000
Carpenter Hospice
Making Room capital campaign25,000
Supporting grant500
Catholic Children's Aid Society of Hamilton
One-to-one support at home*10,000
Catholic Youth Organization
Supporting grant541
Central Presbyterian Church
Supporting grant11,850
Centre3 for Print and Media Arts
Art [2] Enrich25,000
Hatts Off open arts*5,000
Chamber Music Hamilton
Supporting grant13,000
Children's Aid Society of Hamilton
Bursaries and camperships13,000
Miller Bear Program3,000
Supporting grant1,000
Christian Horizons Canada
Supporting grant2,336
Christ's Church Cathedral
Supporting grant2,000
City Housing Hamilton
Sherwood Place Christmas Dinner220
Vanier Towers Photovoice*2,747
City Kidz Ministry
CityYouth leadership development5,000
Gift of Christmas1,000
Supporting grant20,000
City of Hamilton
Bernie Morelli Recreation Centre program subsidies5,000
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six245,344
McQuesten Urban Farm184,375
Nurse Family Partnership41,000
Shirley Elford Emerging Artist Prize2,300
CIVIX
Supporting grant50,000
Coady International Institute-St. Francis Xavier University
Supporting grant25,000
The Colin B. Glassco Charitable Foundation for Children
Supporting grant75,000
Community Care of West Niagara
Supporting grant10,000
Community Development Halton
Supporting grant20,000
Community Food Centres Canada
Supporting grant50,000
Community Foundation Grey Bruce
Supporting grant*12,143
Community Foundation of Nova Scotia
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six405,000
Community Foundations of Canada
Consolidated Investment Exploration*5,000
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six75,000
Supporting grant*39,221
Community Living Hamilton
Supporting grant318
Community Resource and Employment Service
Brantford food bank10,000
Conservation Halton
Supporting grant*3,988
Covenant House Toronto
Supporting grant438
Culture for Kids in the Arts
After-school Arts Program30,000
Glocal #HereWeArt*3,000
Resonance Choir*13,630
Culture of Peace Hamilton/United Nations Association in Canada Hamilton Branch
Supporting grant1,256
The Dave Andreychuk Foundation
Mount Hamilton Minor Hockey541
Disability Justice Network of Ontario/Hamilton Centre for Civic Inclusion
Inaccessible health system research*7,800
Doctors Without Borders
Supporting grant1,000
Down Syndrome Association of Hamilton
Nurture the Ability Art Workshop*5,000
Supporting grant700
Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice Foundation
Camp Erin Hamilton12,000
Supporting grant43,655
Duet Club of Hamilton
Supporting grant1,500
Dundas Art and Craft Association
Carnegie Kids*4,850
Dundas Baptist Church
The Connect Theatre Project*6,000
Dundas Community Services
Volunteer database software*4,195
Dundas Historical Society Museum
Community and family engagement*7,000
Supporting grant2,000
Dundas Turtle Watch/Conserver Society of Hamilton & District, Inc.
Protect our turtles*3,210
Dundas Valley Orchestra
Concerts*5,000
Dundas Valley School of Art
Ageing Artfully3,000
Family Art Days*15,000
Foster the Ability20,000
Holiday gift workshops2,000
Supporting grant4,000
Dundas Youth Chaplaincy
Routes Youth Centre13,000
Routes Youth Centre*20,000
Eagle Worldwide Community Enrichment
Come to the Table*5,000
Elizabeth Fry Society
Seasonal outreach3,500
Supporting grant3,000
Elliott Heights Baptist Church
LARCH After-school Program31,520
LARCH After-school Program*15,000
Empowerment Squared
African Youth Governance Conference6,000
Homework Circle*37,500
Summer literacy*9,820
Engineers Without Borders (Canada)
Supporting grant75,000
Environment Hamilton/Conserver Society of Hamilton & District, Inc.
Friendly Streets Hamilton*45,605
Friendly Streets Hamilton hospital zone study*11,788
Youth Leaders Eco-Summit*3,463
The Equality Effect
Supporting grant75,000
Essential Aid and Family Services of Ontario Inc.
Baby related items*7,500
Eva Rothwell Centre
Hamilton Imagination Library5,000
Hamilton Imagination Library*6,500
Neighbourhood small grants*597
Robert Land Community Association food and breakfast programs5,000
Evergreen
Supporting grant50,000
Fit Active Beautiful (FAB) Foundation
FAB Girls 5K Challenge7,500
FAB Girls 5K Challenge*5,000
Prince of Wales / Bernie Morelli Recreation Centre sites11,000
Flamborough Food Bank
Supporting grant5,000
Flamborough Information & Community Services
Flamborough Connects5,000
Hamilton Rural Seniors’ Grocery Bus Project14,109
Food4Kids Hamilton Halton Niagara
High School Initiative5,000
Ready To Learn!*6,965
Foundation for Advancing Family Medicine
C. Robert Kemp Grant Awards5,000
Good Shepherd Centres Hamilton
Regina's Place/Jeanne Scott Parent and Child Resource Centre*12,041
Supporting grant46,100
Supporting grant*13,633
Greater Hamilton Symphony Association
Supporting grant600
Green Venture/Conserver Society of Hamilton & District, Inc.
Depave Paradise at Yorkview*8,526
Habitat for Humanity Brant
Supporting grant1,000
Habitat for Humanity Canada
Indigenous Housing Partnership1,000
Halton Children's Aid Society
Pace Performance Bikes for Kids Program2,000
Halton Women's Place
Supporting grant2,887
Hamilton & District Extend-a-Family
After-school Homework Club10,000
Holiday party2,000
Hamilton All Star Jazz Band
Supporting grant2,000
Hamilton Association for Residential & Recreational Redevelopment Programs
Neighbourhood small grants*4,000
St. Peter's HARRRP10,000
Hamilton Basic Income Group/Hamilton Community Legal Clinic
Basic Income Education and Awareness Program7,000
Hamilton Bulldogs Foundation Inc.
Breakfast program*250
The Hamilton/Burlington SPCA
Dog care5,000
Sit! Stay! Read!1,020
Supporting grant97,705
Supporting grant*5,180
Hamilton Children's Choir
Supporting grant5,000
Hamilton Conservation Authority
Supporting grant*10,701
Hamilton Conservation Foundation
Outdoor Environment Education Program13,500
Outdoor Environment Education Program*10,000
Supporting grant1,000
Supporting grant*3,988
Hamilton District Society for Disabled Children
Supporting grant674
The Hamilton Dream Centre
Supporting grant7,000
Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' and Girls' Club
Crown Point Educational Engagement*45,000
Kaleidoscope programs500
Ontario Early Years Centre2,000
Programming for girls4,000
Skates for youth and families10,000
Supporting grant2,000
We ROCK summer camperships5,000
Youth leadership subsidies*3,000
Hamilton East Kiwanis Non-Profit Homes Inc.
Neighbourhood small grants*4,035
Hamilton Festival Theatre Company
Artistic Leadership and Entrepreneurial Training Program10,000
Hamilton Food Share
Supporting grant55,000
Supporting grant*12,500
Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Mount Hope Elementary School Library Revitalization Project*10,000
NYA:WEH 2.0*60,000
Rainbow Prom500
Rainbow Prom*2,000
Red Maple reading program*19,200
Student Support Grant Project5,000
Teacher Small Grants*19,250
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation
Internship program7,381
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation
Cardiac Care at Hamilton General Hospital2,500
Dr. Frank Smith500
Hybrid Operating Room16,763
Supporting grant3,500
W. Leonard and Phyllis Carpenter Memorial Endowment Fund50,000
Hamilton Literacy Council
Supporting grant1,900
Hamilton Mennonite Church
Neighbourhood small grants*1,000
Hamilton Music Collective
An Instrument for Every Child21,141
Grade 1 trips to McMaster LIVELab3,000
Partnership with Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' and Girls' Club20,000
Supporting grant5,000
Hamilton Naturalists' Club
Biodiversity in the Schoolyard7,000
Connecting students to nature at school*7,960
Discover & Restore Nature with Hess Street School2,000
Supporting grant1,500
Supporting grant*14,689
Hamilton Out of the Cold Program Coalition Inc.
Supporting grant2,000
Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra (2000) Inc.
Adopt-a-School4,000
Dundas programming*11,500
Family and seniors programming10,000
Outreach program5,000
Supporting grant & Beethoven, Brahms concert68,828
Hamilton Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Supporting grant7,653
Hamilton Right to Life
Supporting grant5,000
Hamilton Roundtable for Poverty Reduction/Hamilton Community Legal Clinic
Basic Income Speakers Bureau*1,700
ODSP Clinics*800
Supporting grant10,452
Supporting grant*50,000
Hamilton Social Medicine Response Team/The AIDS Network
Peer Support Worker Program34,008
Hamilton Sustainable Victory Gardens Inc.
Supporting grant2,000
Hamilton Theatre Inc.
Supporting grant*5,858
Hamilton Youth Poets/Hamilton Arts Council
March break camp*5,000
Hamilton Youth Steel Orchestra/The John Howard Society
Supporting grant*5,000
Hamilton-Wentworth Catholic District School Board
Empower Reading Program250,000
Equal Opportunities Fund271
Freedom Arts Project*6,000
Intramural Soccer League & Learn*10,000
L.E.A.D. Successful Transtions Project*30,300
Recess project with an after-school twist*10,000
St. Helen community centre27,120
Teacher small grants*12,380
Harbourfront Corporation
Fleck Dance Theatre300
Healing Arts and Recovery with Peer Support/City Housing Hamilton
Supporting grant and tenant engagement*15,000
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
Supporting grant2,192
Hearts Together For Haiti
Supporting grant4,000
Helping Hands Street Mission
Supporting grant2,000
Heritage Hamilton Foundation
Neighbourhood small grants*1,500
Hillcrest Elementary School/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Community Collaboration5,000
Holbrook School/Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
Butterfly project*400
Inclusive educational excursion*735
Hope for Wildlife Society
Supporting grant500
Hospital Family Houses of Ontario
Mark Preece Family House2,600
The Hospital for Sick Children
Supporting grant2,593
Imagine in the Park Children's Arts Festival/Rotary Club of Hamilton AM
Supporting grant4,500
Supporting grant*3,000
Indspire
Building Brighter Futures35,000
Industry Education Council of Hamilton
Computer/coding workshops*54,986
Indwell Community Homes
Data analyst*23,000
Neighbourhood small grants*500
Interval House of Hamilton
Be More Than a Bystander1,000
Emergency shelter1,000
Jared's Place*11,000
Mentor Action Program1,472
Purchase of furnace*5,000
Supporting grant10,000
Supportive mothering5,428
The Hero's Journey Program10,000
Jazz.FM91 Inc.
Supporting grant438
The John Howard Society
ACHIEVES*32,083
Neighbourhood small grants*30,189
Supporting grant1,000
YARD program*60,000
Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation
Labour & Delivery Unit capital campaign5,000
Supporting grant8,095
Journalists for Human Rights
Supporting grant75,000
Joy Bible Camp
Supporting grant1,000
Jump In Foundation
Physical activation program10,000
Physical activation program*10,000
Jump Math
Supporting grant50,000
Juravinski Hospital & Cancer Centre Foundation/Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation
Supporting grant2,000
Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
Supporting grant2,000
Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation
Supporting grant813
Kartarpur Charitable Fund
Supporting grant2,000
Kiwanis Music Festival Association of Greater Toronto
Supporting grant500
Laidlaw Memorial United Church
Partners in Learning*500
Learning Disabilities Association of Halton
Reading Rocks!*10,000
The Learning Partnership
Supporting grant25,000
Let's Talk Science
Supporting grant25,000
Liberty for Youth
Bright Choices20,000
Prodigal Sonz*5,000
Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children
Supporting grant2,000
Lions Foundation of Canada
Autism Assistance Dog Guides1,000
Canine Vision500
Wish List700
Living Rock Ministries
Job coach2,000
Operation Christmas Blessing4,000
Rock in Action*5,000
Rock Resources*25,000
Supporting grant*8,329
Loran Scholars Foundation
Supporting grant80,000
Lynwood Charlton Centre
Supporting grant500
Under the Williows12,500
MacNab Street Presbyterian Church
Supporting grant10,905
March of Dimes Canada Non-Profit Housing Corporation
Jason's House5,000
MaRS Discovery District
Solution Labs/SVX/Centre for Impact Investing325,000
Mathstronauts/McMaster University-MILO
STEM Hacks*2,000
McGill University
Friends of McGill Hockey200
Supporting grant2,000
McMaster Children's Hospital Foundation
Medical equipment700
McMaster University
Basic Income Project*17,177
Dynamics of intimate partner violence study*35,000
NICU-to-home transitions study*14,845
President's Fund1,500
Scholarship award250
Supporting grant2,000
The Collaboratorium*8,000
Mealshare Aid Foundation
Hamilton expansion20,000
Melrose United Church
Supporting grant6,272
Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Support
Supporting grant2,000
Métis Women's Circle
The Song-Bird and the Healing Waters20,000
Mission Services of Hamilton
Supporting grant11,538
The 196 After-school Program*30,000
Youth Food Program15,000
Missionaries of Charity
Supporting grant100
Mohawk College
Bursaries10,165
City School students’ safety wear4,100
MADD Canada
SmartWheels program1,000
Musicata
Supporting grant2,000
Muskoka Conservancy
Supporting grant1,000
National Youth Orchestra
Supporting grant1,000
Native Women's Centre
Gift of giving2,350
Trauma Sensitive Yoga2,500
Neighbour to Neighbour Centre (Hamilton)
Children's food literacy programs40,000
Food skills programming15,000
Jack Parent Reading Program16,020
Jack Parent Reading Program*10,000
Math Success Program*14,735
Neighbourhood small grants*6,000
Supporting grant5,500
Nelson Youth Centres
Supporting grant7,000
New Vision United Church
Music Hall5,000
Music Hall*25,000
Supporting grant*9,743
NGen Youth Centre/Hamilton East Kiwanis Boys' and Girls' Club
Reprogrammed*5,000
Niwasa Kendaaswin Teg
NYA:WEH Elementary*37,500
North End Breezes/North Hamilton Community Health Centre
Supporting grant*1,580
North Hamilton Community Health Centre
Grub Club: What's Cooking?*9,500
PATH program*8,334
Pathways to Education neighbourhood expansion30,000
Pathways to Education FitRec program*5,000
Trauma Sensitive Yoga for LGBTQ2S+ individuals*2,580
Ontario Music Festivals Association
Supporting grant1,000
Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association - Hamilton Branch, Scholarship Fund
Supporting grant900
Ontario Registered Music Teachers' Association – Niagara-on-the-Lake
Supporting grant700
Opening Hearts
Sibling Support Network*3,000
Organized Kaos Life & Trade
Supporting grant2,000
The Owl Foundation
Pine shavings1,500
Supporting grant2,841
PAL Canada Foundation
Supporting grant1,000
Paroisse Saint-Philippe
Supporting grant4,000
Peel Music Festival
Supporting grant300
Philpott Memorial Church
Supporting grant9,344
Players' Guild of Hamilton Inc.
Supporting grant*5,858
Port Dover and Area Life Line Food Bank
Supporting grant2,000
Project SHARE of Niagara Falls
Food bank5,000
Rainbow Railroad
Supporting grant5,000
Redeemer University College
Music Scholarship1,000
Supporting grant2,000
Rideau Hall Foundation - Fondation Rideau Hall
Post-Secondary Access and Success Network*50,000
Riverdale Women's Empowerment Group/The John Howard Society
Weekly support group*2,000
Robert Land Community Association
Eva Rothwell Centre2,000
Supporting grant4,400
Robert Land Community Association/Eva Rothwell Centre
Food closet and outdoor program7,000
Rotary Club of Hamilton Sunshine Fund
Healthy Cooking on a Budget5,000
Wever CORE Kids10,000
Royal Botanical Gardens
Children's programs2,500
Rose garden bed25,000
Supporting grant11,828
Supporting grant*3,988
Royal Canadian Humane Association
Supporting grant*3,719
Royal Conservatory of Music
Supporting grant300
Rygiel Supports for Community Living
Supporting grant2,336
Supporting grant*3,580
Salal Foundation
Canopy initiative50,000
The Salvation Army Hamilton Booth Centre
Dundas food bank5,000
Ellen Osler Home Hatt Street reconstruction project*19,850
New Choices1,800
New Choices*3,500
Supporting grant1,736
Salvation Army Simcoe Community Church
Dunnville food bank5,000
Scientists in School
STEM Enrichment10,000
Scleroderma Society of Canada
Supporting grant5,000
Scleroderma Society of Ontario
Supporting grant5,000
Scouts Canada - Central Ontario Service Centre
Supporting grant250
Shakespearience Performing Arts
School programs4,000
School programs*3,000
Shalem Mental Health Network
Counselling Assistance Fund15,000
Sheridan College, Oakville Campus
Music, Theatre, Performance Program500
Shriners Hospitals for Children
Supporting grant1,168
The Simcoe Caring Cupboard
Food bank5,000
Skills for Change
Bridging the Gap*15,000
Small Change Fund
Supporting grant30,000
Social Planning & Research Council of Hamilton
Neighbourhood small grants*6,370
Ontario Knowledge Network for Student Well-Being*3,400
Soaring Spirit Festival*2,699
Society of our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (Canada)
Supporting grant35,186
Society of St. Vincent de Paul Ontario Regional Council
Ridgeway food baskets5,000
Soroptimist International of Hamilton-Burlington
Live Your Dream5,000
St. Andrew's United Church
Soup for the Soul2,000
St. David's Presbyterian Church
Neighbourhood small grants*2,000
St. Jerome's University
Supporting grant4,000
St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation
Macrophages and fibrotic lung disease*30,000
Mental health services at West 5th location10,000
Supporting grant16,000
Youth Wellness Centre's Empowerment Fund*5,000
St. Joseph's Home Care
Supporting grant*13,000
St. Joseph's Villa Foundation
Enhancing care*19,244
Supporting grant30,000
St. Matthew's House
Adopt-a-Family Program5,000
Supporting grant18,457
St. Patrick's Parish
Supporting grant40,271
St. Raphael's Parish Church
Supporting grant6,000
Start2Finish
Junior Coaches Program*29,000
Running & Reading Club8,000
Running & Reading Club*16,000
Stoney Creek Community Food Bank
Supporting grant5,000
The Stop Community Food Centre
Supporting grant50,000
Strata Montessori Adolescent School
Supporting grant3,018
Streetlight Ministries
Building Fund2,000
Student Open Circles
Community Volunteer Circles10,700
Supporting grant1,472
Swim, Drink, Fish Canada
Supporting grant648
SwimAbility Hamilton/Special Olympics Ontario Inc.
Swim lessons*1,700
Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement
Supporting grant50,000
Tastebuds/Social Planning & Research Council of Hamilton
Supporting grant*5,051
Telling Tales
Community outreach2,000
Community outreach*8,000
Dundas residents*3,000
In-school program*3,000
Supporting grant25,000
Tetra Society of North America
Hamilton Tools for Tykes3,500
The National Ballet of Canada
Supporting grant500
Theatre Ancaster
Supporting grant*5,858
Theatre Aquarius
Indigenous Arts Program2,500
Newcomer Arts program3,000
Ovation Outreach Enrollment Program5,000
Supporting grant4,500
Threshold School of Building
Job developer20,000
Supporting grant10,000
THRIVE
Community Navigator*10,000
Counselling for children*8,800
Oasis Program*6,000
Supporting grant10,000
Luminato
Supporting grant300
Toronto International Film Festival
Supporting grant300
Trinity Presbyterian Church
Repeat Champions*1,500
True Patriot Love Foundation
Supporting grant*250
TVOntario
Supporting grant438
The Tyndale Foundation
Supporting grant2,336
United Way Halton & Hamilton
Supporting grant15,133
University of Guelph
Bursaries4,000
University of Notre Dame
Supporting grant100
University of St. Michael's College
Supporting grant4,000
University of Toronto
President's Club1,000
Urquhart Butterfly Garden/Conserver Society of Hamilton & District, Inc.
Summer educational program*2,280
Vancouver Foundation
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six300,000
Victoria Foundation
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six225,000
Victorian Order of Nurses - Hamilton Branch
Meals on Wheels1,000
Meals on Wheels*20,000
Village Theatre (Waterdown) Inc.
Supporting grant*5,858
War Amputations of Canada
Supporting grant1,500
WE Charity
Schools in Rongena, Kenya4,000
Supporting grant25,000
Welcome Inn Community Centre of Hamilton
Community Christmas2,150
Educational programming5,500
Neighbourhood small grants*2,880
New Horizons Thrift Store training program*10,000
Wellwood Resource Centre of Hamilton
Alumni Family Days*5,000
Children's program5,000
Curveball5,000
Kids in the Kitchen/Power Up10,000
Supporting grant*5,979
Wesley Urban Ministries
Christmas and holiday store1,000
Food Service Training Program*25,000
Snacks for afterschool programs*10,000
Supporting grant6,538
West Lincoln Community Care
Smithville food bank5,000
Westdale Cinema Group
Neighbourhood small grants*500
Projection room reconstruction25,000
Westdale Theatre renovation5,000
Wever CORE/McMaster University
McMaster Trip*4,000
Wever CORE/Rotary Club of Hamilton Sunshine Fund
Community Christmas party2,500
Supporting grant*7,829
Youth Achieves/Leaders in Training/Arabic Speaking Navigator programs*13,700
Windmill Microlending
Supporting grant50,000
WindsorEssex Community Foundation
Green Shield Canada Six 4 Six450,000
Woodview Children's Centre
Supporting grant1,000
Word & Deed Ministries Canada Inc.
Supporting grant2,000
Workers Arts & Heritage Centre
School Visits Program1,500
YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford
Beyond the Bell10,000
Beyond the Bell*10,000
Camp Wanakita4,000
Camp Wanakita bursary1,000
Camp Wanakita outripping equipment19,898
Farah Family Youth Peace Scholarship5,000
Peace Medal Breakfast5,000
York University
Justine Giuliani Bursary3,595
Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada
Hamilton schools*35,000
Women4Change Youth Engagement Award*5,000
YWCA Hamilton
A Holiday to Remember3,000
Food for Thought*15,000
Phoenix Place1,000
Supporting grant*200
Syrian girls leadership and March break camp*5,000
Transitional Living Program5,000

Community leadership projects
These projects include HCF’s own community leadership activity, as well as projects where we act as an intermediary to assemble funding for multi-organizational community initiatives. The projects may span multiple years, and are funded by new donations as well as by Board-directed funds. Current year funders are AbleLiving Services Inc., City of Hamilton, Community Foundations of Canada, The Fairmount Foundation, Green Shield Canada, Hamilton Family Health Team, Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, McMaster University, Saint Elizabeth Health Care, St. Joseph’s Health System, Thrive Group.

Leadership project costs include research, community consultation, meeting costs, education and communication materials. Spending for 2019-20 is:

ABACUS: Advancing post-secondary access227,668
Community investing project70,561
Green Shield Canada Six4Six initiative26,265
Hamilton Anchor Institution Leadership Table165,150
Student success initiatives21,463
Other leadership projects22,572
Total community leadership projects533,679

 

 

Pandemic response

In mid-March, HCF’s Board established its Pandemic Response Fund with an initial $2 million commitment, underpinned by a strategy that would enable:

  • Flexibility to meet changing and uncertain conditions
  • Transparency and accountability to our stakeholders
  • Ongoing communication with agencies, other funders and government to determine and respond to emerging needs

Immediate emergency granting focused on Hamiltonians most affected by the pandemic, including people experiencing homelessness and lacking food security, those who are immuno-compromised, isolated seniors, newcomers and Indigenous people. Before the end of March, proactive grants totalling $305,000 were made to 16 Hamilton organizations to help address these immediate needs.

This work formed the starting point for the three ongoing streams of the fund:

Meeting basic needs (Short-term)
Providing basic needs related to food security, shelter, hygiene.

Stabilization (Short- to medium-term)
Supporting charities to deliver frontline, critical services to vulnerable populations affected by quarantine, closures, shortages, access to services, loss of income, or other economic factors. This stream aims to maintain or expand local capacity to address all aspects of the outbreak as efficiently as possible, and help close gaps where services are not covered by government relief funding.

Recovery and rebuilding (Medium- to long-term)
Recognizing that the recovery from this crisis will extend far into the foreseeable future, this stream will enable the Foundation’s continued flexibility and responsiveness to Hamilton’s evolving needs, with the goal of strengthening its long-term resilience.

Ongoing leadership

Beyond our direct support through the Pandemic Response Fund, we are shaping our existing leadership priorities to the city’s new and emerging realities in multiple ways, including:

Education
Increasing the likelihood that young Hamiltonians will participate in university, college or the trades is a critical community investment that can have a positive impact on people, neighbourhoods and our city.  HCF supports education in numerous ways, through our ABACUS initiative and beyond.

HCF is supporting its ABACUS grantees and other education organizations in Hamilton to best serve their communities through the pandemic.  We surveyed our 23 ABACUS grantees to understand how they are responding to COVID-19, physical distancing measures and online schooling. Based on their responses HCF has been working with them to:

  • Redirect a portion of their ABACUS funds, where appropriate, to respond to imminent and pressing needs due to COVID-19
  • Use the remainder of their 2019-20 funds to move their current ABACUS program online
  • Retain the remainder of their 2019-20 funds until in-person programming can resume

We continue to listen and learn from our grantees to be flexible in supporting middle-school-aged youth and their broader community.

Neighbourhoods
The Foundation’s longstanding commitment to neighbourhoods has focused in recent years on small grants that promote health equity and leadership development. Over the last year, HCF conducted a pilot on new ways of delivery that would expand the reach of its grants. We also conducted a community scan to understand better, what residents would like to learn more about to support their community work. While both these projects are temporarily paused, the research will help to inform how the Foundation continues to support healthy, inclusive neighbourhoods in a post-pandemic reality.

Engaging, learning from and working with Indigenous communities
In October 2019, HCF’s Board of Directors made a commitment to strengthen the Foundation’s relationship with Indigenous communities as part of its work towards truth and reconciliation. We recognize that the Foundation’s history and current operations are connected to Canada’s colonial history and current context. To be partners, the Foundation must start, at all levels of our organization, by working alongside Indigenous communities and organizations to explore how we grant, invest and convene across our community.

HCF has strong relationships with several local Indigenous organizations and leaders, and supports multiple Indigenous-led initiatives through granting and impact investing. HCF is now working to build our response both to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s Calls to Action and to the unique needs of this community, especially as a result of COVID-19.

We thank everyone who contributes to sending children to camp. Contributors of over $500 are listed below:
Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada
Elizabeth Eldridge
Fabris Inc.
The Hamilton & District Soccer Association
Hamilton All Star Jazz Band
Judith McCulloch
Real McCoys
United Way Halton & Hamilton
Elizabeth Whetham
HCF received donations in memory of:
Mary Abou El-AssalGregory John GloverRose Sazio
Mary AcsLeah Gow-RickettsBrenda Jean Sherring
Fortunata BarresiThe Honourable C. Raymond HarrisCathy Skibinski
Claude BarretteBill & Marion HoltonCharles Moore Smalley
Frederick (Fred) Stephen BartBruce Robert HorsleyFrank Szostak
Eric Richard CannonBruce JaffreyDr. Lewis Tauber
Joyce Frid CaygillAnne Hamilton JonesJoyce Mary Tidball
Fred (Derf) James ChartersSarah & Clare LakinFernando (Fern) Anthony Viola
Adam Hugh ClarkWilliam (Bill) Morris, Q.C.Reno Basil Violin
David CollingFrances Ann (Fran) O'Brien-FlahertyDaniel Bell Watt
James Donald CoonsPeter (Pete) Palmer Jr.Ronald (Ron) Ernest Weston
Rosemarie CooperThe Honourable Paul Gillrie PhilpSigrid Marianne Whelan
Ray CunningtonLois Marion ReidBarbara Ann Winfield
William Gordon DemerlingAnnetta & Poyntz RickettsJeffory (Jeff) James Wolfenden
Sharon Bernadette DredgeMarie Louise Robbins
Peter FriedmanJoan Marion Roscoe
HCF received donations in honour of:
Dr. Richard BethuneMorag HalseyDr. Anne M. Pearson
Steve BuistStephanie HatzifilalithisLayna Potocic
Bob CarrDr. Art HeidebrechtGail Rappolt
Michael & Ida Caruso’s
40th wedding anniversary
Jane & Steve LockeThomas Rennie
Terry CookeJudith McCullochAdele Stanfield
Dr. Fionnella CrombieDr. Don & Kathryne McLeanJoshua E., Amy & Liam Thorne
Heidi Van DammeSheree MeredithZhenqi Wang
Former staff of Regal
Greetings & Gifts
Paul & Carolyn Milne
HCF received gifts in kind from:
Amica Dundas
City of Hamilton
Connor, Clark & Lunn Private Capital
ESB Lawyers LLP
Gowling WLG
The Hamilton Spectator
ImpactLink Capital
Jarislowsky Fraser Limited
McMaster University Centre for Continuing Education
Soundbox
Unicorn Rebellion

Field-of-interest funds
Alfred & Joan Robertshaw Memorial Fund842,506
The Alice Jean Ainsworth Memorial Fund2,027,703
The Angel Fund*151,242
Antonina Lombardo Fund181,923
Arthur & Helena Lemon Fund127,162
Barbara & Bob Harwood Fund243,229
Barbara Bethune Fund*†
Barbara Farnan Fund160,443
Betty & Jack George Family Fund32,479
Bill & Tina Seale Fund374,196
Board Leadership Fund26,627
Carolyn A. Milne Leadership Forum Fund67,538
Charles & Ret Swire Fund264,158
Community Health, Education & Research Fund1,614,393
Dorothy & Frank Bliss Fund
Mary S. & James P. Phin Respiratory Disease Research Fund
McGregor Clinic Fund
Delaware Fund463,704
Dougher Community Fund3,101,582
Edward & Gladys Halloran Memorial Fund988,812
Everard Hambro Fund50,037
First Place, Hamilton Tomorrow Fund320,942
Florence E.S. Hutton Fund*575,289
Foxcroft Family Youth Fund33,743
Fund for Underprivileged Children579,887
George & Shirley McBride Foundation Fund1,355,623
Gibson Trust/Town of Flamborough41,949
Giovanni & Grazia Criminisi Literacy Fund*42,648
The Glenn & Sidney Sellick Fund12,742
Hogarth Family Pioneer Energy Fund1,414,479
Ike & Shahnaz Ahmed Foundation Fund43,501
James Walker Culhane Trust Fund416,446
Jane C. LeWarne Fund21,884
Jeanne Scott Fund*1,191,046
Joan C. Watt Memorial Fund45,745
John Dennis Holmes Fund64,989
Kenneth Boothe Young & Marie Catherine Young Fund1,489,445
Lillian & Marvin Goldblatt Family Fund274,314
Lillian M. Shaw Fund354,425
Marchese Health Care 50th Anniversary Legacy Fund60,285
Mary Lauder Cassidy Fund315,510
Nelson Allan Fund178,621
Note-Able Music Fund75,495
Ray Lowes Environmental Fund505,293
Royal Canadian Humane Association Fund88,814
Russell I. Elman Fund1,920,826
School Sisters of Notre Dame Legacy Fund†
Shirley M. Elford Gift of Today Fund135,873
Terry & Brenda Yates Fund1,067,285
The Van Dusen Fund*529,712
Vera & Percy Tomlinson Fund119,269
W. Robert & Marion S. Shivas Conservation Trust Fund380,969
Women 4 Change Fund243,692
Youth & Philanthropy Fund142,314

Ontario Endowment for Children & Youth in Recreation Fund
This fund’s balance includes matching funds from the Province of Ontario in 2002 to encourage the participation of children and youth in recreation.
Anonymous fund
Bank of Montreal Fund for Children & Youth in Recreation
The CHML Children’s Fund
The Clark Family Fund
The David Gow Fund
The Deslauriers Fund
The Emma Templeton Fund
The Foxcroft Family Fund
Gallagher Family Fund
Hamilton–Hydro Electric Company Fund
The Hamlin Family Fund
Judith & Peter McCulloch Fund
The Junior League Centennial Endowment Fund for Youth
The Mildred E. Hunter Fund
Morgan Firestone Foundation Fund for Youth
Mr. & Mrs. Colin S. Glassco Fund
Pioneer Energy Fund for Children & Youth
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Hamilton Children and Youth Millennium Fund
TD Bank Financial Group Fund
Zonta Club of Hamilton 1 Fund
Other donations under $5,000
Fund balance 1,150,142

Donor-advised funds
Apollo Fund†
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Children and Youth Fund92,965
Audrey & Alan Moffett Fund†
Bisaro Family Fund*141,714
Chedoke Health Foundation Fund5,137,778
Clark Family Foundation Fund1,258,647
Cooke Family Fund*28,570
David Davis Memorial Fund†
Dr. Bob & Mildred Kemp Palliative Care Education Fund141,730
Dufresne-Ray Family Fund†
Ed Smee Conserver Society Environmental Fund44,357
Edith H. Turner Foundation Fund11,347,474
Elham & Joseph Farah Family Foundation Fund*†
Ella Baird & Grace Baird McQueen Memorial Fund/A.J. McQueen60,443
Ernst Family Fund*†
Fengate Community Foundation Fund*1,212,777
The Gilmour Fund2,799,492
Glen & Debra Swire Fund73,583
Great Lakes Trust Fund*26,477
GSC Community Impact Fund715,959
Heather & Ross Hamlin Fund*11,324,574
Heels Family Vocal Award Fund*446,082
Hogarth Family Foundation Fund2,695,978
Hugh C. Arrell Memorial Fund60,750
Hundred Waters Foundation Fund*36,729
Hutton Family Fund*†
Jeremy Hepner Fund26,562
John & Esther Marshall Memorial Fund298,955
John & Mary Reesor Fund171,727
Karen & Peter Turkstra Family Foundation Fund†
Kathleen C. Nolan Education Fund46,157
Kirkpatrick Fund51,847
Kismet Fund†
Lawyers' Legacy for Children the Ray Harris Fund390,441
Lee Hepner Award Fund31,766
Lois Evans Natural Heritage Fund136,382
Losani Family Foundation Fund472,629
The Malloch Foundation Fund677,529
Marjorie Hawkins Clark Fund1,131,671
Mark & Barbara Nimigan Fund129,962
The Martin Foundation Fund1,389,243
Mayberry Family Fund*237,947
McCallum, McBride Fund1,104,368
Meredith Family Fund30,785
Michael Chamberlain Fund178,844
Mildred Dixon Holmes - Youth Orchestra Fund372,984
The Milne McGrath Fund914,856
Ray Brillinger & Cy Hack Fund175,012
Robert P. Beres Fund†
The Ron & Gina Fraser Endowment Fund138,511
Rotary Club of Hamilton East-Wentworth Foundation Fund109,795
Shirley M. Elford Artist's Fund59,808
Stover Family Fund†
Tara Lynn Giuliani Foundation268,913
Ted & Karin Bossence Fund*110,486
The Unicorn Fund22,627
Thorne Family Fund38,192
Tran Family Fund*42,470
W. L. Carpenter Memorial Fund*2,588,283
Williams Family Fund*93,673
The Young Fund*35,921,236
Designated funds
Adam and Olive Clark Memorial Fund355,665
Art and Barb Worth Fund139,638
Barbara and Ronald Bayne Fund81,598
Cygnus Fund177,016
Douglas J. Clark Fund*151,876
Eva Rothwell Resource Centre Fund99,956
Frank Charles Miller Fund*2,286,123
James P. & Mary S. Phin Charitable Fund247,694
Joe, Filomena and George Seliga Holdings Fund†
Phenix Fund for Animal Welfare133,748
Porto Family Fund†
Samaritans' Tithe Fund299,977
Stoney Creek Health Fund855,378
United Nations Culture of Peace Hamilton Fund32,199
United Way Fund/Kenneth R. Walsh203,429
Walter & Mildred Danby Fund*557,790
Scholarship and bursary funds
Albert & Betty Walters Fund106,276
Amanda Marie Cowan Memorial Scholarship Fund29,953
Bernie Morelli Memorial Bursary Fund31,939
Charlie and Mabel Duncan Memorial Bursary Fund31,939
Christina Hamilton Scholarship Fund53,501
Cowan Family Fund27,475
CPRS Hamilton Legacy Fund33,256
Daniel Giannini Fund1,148,301
Eugene B. Eastburn Fellowship Fund1,041,734
General Bursary Fund/Genevieve A. Chaney & Cordelia C. Ensign911,676
Geritol Follies Bursary Fund187,590
Howard Fairclough Organ Scholarship Fund68,058
James Darby Bursary Fund426,047
Jeff Dickins Memorial Fund†
Jervis B. Webb Company of Canada (Daifuku) Scholarship Fund313,356
John E. VanDuzer Scholarship Fund44,139
Mildred Dixon Holmes - Artist of the Year Fund37,380
Music Bursary Fund46,514
Ross F. Webb Bursary Fund80,512
Rundle Foreign Study Bursary52,535
Russell & Elizabeth Lindley Fund187,025
William Allison Haynes Fund108,644
Agency endowment funds
AbleLiving Services Inc. Mary Traini Legacy Fund140,160
Art Gallery of Hamilton - Building a Legacy Fund247,720
Bay Area Science & Engineering Fair Fund37,153
Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum Endowment Fund34,925
Cancer Assistance Program (CAP) Endowment Fund38,596
Catholic Children's Aid Society - Ersilia Dinardo Scholarship Fund57,468
Catholic Children's Aid Society - Ralph and Rose Sazio Scholarship Fund143,268
Catholic Children's Aid Society of Hamilton Endowment Fund149,550
Children's International Learning Centre Endowment Fund74,639
Community Living Hamilton Endowment Fund121,373
Dr. Bob Kemp Hospice Endowment Fund129,363
Dundas Valley School of Art Endowment Fund89,359
Hamilton Naturalists' Club:
Conservation & Education Endowment Fund55,858
Ecological Research Endowment Fund36,834
Habitat Preservation Endowment Fund221,075
Hamilton Public Library Library Legacy Fund851,442
HWDSB Foundation Endowment Fund801,592
Interval House (Hamilton) Freedom and Hope Fund114,229
The RHLI Endowment Fund293,544
Rotary Club of Hamilton - Rotary Forever Fund100,344
Scouts Canada, Hamilton Wentworth Endowment Fund193,196
United Way Tomorrow & Forever Fund1,469,438
YWCA Hamilton Endowment Fund854,332
Administration funds
Anonymous Fund12,069
Brenda & Terry Yates Fund99,201
Cameron K. MacGillivray Fund25,661
Dr. Robert & Helen Lofthouse Fund42,472
Judith & Peter McCulloch Fund40,274
Judith McCulloch Tribute Fund11,025
Marjorie & Bill Nelson Fund99,015
Ross & McBride, LLP Fund22,379
Thérèse & Kent Newcomb Fund 9,995
Funds in progress
Bruce Hamilton Family Fund*
Bruce Trail Conservancy Endowment Fund
Conducive Fund
Dream Weaver Fund
Mark Preece Family House Endowment Fund
Phantom Moms Fund*
Revolution Hope: Claire Lewis Foundation Fund
Sons of Italy Hamilton Trieste Lodge Legacy Fund
Tamara and Robert Henderson Family Fund*
Tweedell Goodbrand Family Fund
Community Fund: Unrestricted fund  J-Z 
J.M. Walter Hahn Fund5,000
Jack A. Winser Fund155,007
Jack McNie Fund26,000
James & Irene Wilson Fund6,000
James & Mary Phin Fund106,545
James D. Redmond Fund6,033
Jane Milanetti Fund14,650
Jessie Rumney Fund10,000
Joan W. Rutherford Fund5,000
John and Joan Bothwell Fund10,000
John H. Frid Fund548,347
John Shea Memorial Fund8,387
Josephine Magee Fund204,057
Kathleen L. McBride Fund11,632,794
Kathryn Jones Fund130,186
Lakin Family Fund15,615
Laurence Cholwill Patterson Fund351,146
Leanora M. Spicer Fund26,600
Lillian Boyd Barnby Fund10,000
Lindsay M. McLennan Fund78,022
Lois G. Greenall Fund145,085
Lulu Blanche Hart & Harry Utter Hart Memorial Fund778,782
M. Jessie Chagnon Fund71,196
Mabel Beatrice Studd Fund15,000
Mabel D. Leadlay Fund75,891
Margaret & William Gilmour Fund8,380
Margaret Anne Hayward Fund797,598
Margaret E. Tschetter Fund383,739
Marjorie L. Allan Fund5,000
Marjorie Wild Fund30,724
Marnie & Bill Brehm Family Fund43,000
Marnie Spears Fund22,195
Martha McKinnell Serrels Fund94,682
Mary & Earl Brooks Fund1,354,969
Mary E. Hatch Fund116,000
Mildred E. Hunter Fund100,878
Mount Hamilton United Church Legacy Fund20,000
Noreen & Seymour Wigle Fund15,000
Patricia Eileen Smith Fund5,150
Peter & Rose Marie Palmer Fund10,848
Petra Cooke Memorial Fund32,400
Project Sunday Fund8,771
Ralph E. Ingraham Fund16,017
Ralph W. & Evelyn J. Cooper Fund151,000
Renate & Bob Davidson Fund11,000
Reynolds Family Fund141,839
Robert C. & L. Ann Glass Fund100,000
Robert D. Crockford Fund14,075
Robert George Sparre Fund34,410
Robert J. & Joan Harrison Fund10,266
Robert P. McBride Fund1,636,012
Royal Hamilton College of Music Faculty Fund5,963
Russell & Mae Lindley Fund10,400
Ruth G. & Fred J. Spencer Fund23,000
The Samuel & Dora McFarlane Fund14,000
Samuel Ringer Fund70,586
Sandra & John Black Fund195,609
Sarah Smith Fund230,729
The Spectator Fund10,000
Stait Family Fund†
Stewart Philp Fund45,000
Tim and Dale Langs Fund189,409
Tod Laing Fund7,950
Vangie M. Crosthwaite Fund41,292
Vera M. Elwin Fund536,235
Vincenza Travale Fund22,200
W. Jones Fund25,920
West-Moynes Fund8,500
Wheeler Family Fund11,100
William F. Brand Fund8,404
William Gordon Kitchener Fund60,000
William S. Sparham Fund25,236
Flowthrough funds
#HamOntForever Fund
Ambery Fund
ArcelorMittal Dofasco Children and Youth Fund
Creative Arts Fund
Ellen Creaghan Fund
Fengate Recreation Fund
Green Shield Canada Community Granting Fund
Hamilton Prosperity Fund
Hamilton Spectator Summer Camp Fund
Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security Fund
Marlies & Alan Clark Fund
Payne Fund
School Nourishment Fund
True Sport Fund
Community Fund: Unrestricted fund A-I
#HamOnt Forever Fund5,000
A. May Davis Fund41,598
A.H. Tallman Bronze Co. Ltd. Fund21,790
Alfred Charles & Pearl Gertrude Swanwick Fund200,000
Alice Redman Gooch Fund25,025
Alice Vera Morgan Fund338,065
Alphonse Dirse Fund48,344
Anne M. Biggar Fund460,327
Annie S. Nieman Fund36,081
Averil Gray & Florence Gray Fund1,172,308
Bertha Savage Fund47,806
Bill and Jane Evans Family Fund†
Brenda & Reg McGuire Fund5,150
Brenda Morris Fund5,000
Cameron K. MacGillivray Fund9,325
Caroline May Alvey Fund118,000
Catherine C.H. Murray Fund50,050
Charles & Catherine Ralph Fund43,131
Charlotte Cauley Fund34,987
Christina Cooper Fund173,405
Christina I. Hammant Fund250,000
Clare B. Hunter Fund13,079
D. Argue Martin Fund20,340
Dan and Helen Geagan Fund31,096
Daniel T. Lawrie Fund115,529
Diffey Family Fund†
Donald A. Cooper Fund40,126
Donald & Alice Cannon Fund17,005
Donald H. Henderson Fund408,597
Donald J. Allan Fund103,514
Doreen & Gordon Birk Fund98,409
Doris M. Allen Fund172,918
Dorothy & Travice Broadbent Fund7,000
Dorothy Cauley Fund78,831
Dorothy I. Linfoot Fund20,588
Dr. Alexander A. Numbers Fund5,844
Dr. Carl Martin Memorial Fund5,000
Dr. Ronald P. Graham Fund16,814
E. Francis Dennee Fund24,322
Edna E.R. Reeves Fund78,766
Edna Fern Flewelling Fund29,761
Edna Robertson Memorial Fund29,000
Eleanor Foster Fund869,072
Eleanor Jean Milton Fund63,610
Eleanor M. Smith Fund10,000
Elizabeth Lee Fund11,775
Elizabeth Mary Hamilton Fund30,000
Elsie M. Husband Fund12,300
Erie Hossack Fund58,638
Erma Z.L. Goering Fund888,437
Ernest & Ruth Brunton Fund29,000
Ethel H. Prouse Fund181,684
Eulalia D. Wall Fund170,977
Evelyn & Richard Geraghty Storms Memorial Fund25,000
Evelyn Patricia Lyons Fund5,000
Fell Family Fund40,065
Flora L. McNeil Fund30,165
Florabel Condy Fund25,000
Frances W. Ambrose Fund5,600
Francis Spence Hutton Fund32,650
Frederick J. Mills Fund26,189
Gallagher Family Fund82,700
George Earle Drewett and Arline Myra Drewett Memorial Fund69,852
Gilbert P.V. Belton Fund175,088
Gladys A. Whittaker Fund26,205
Gordon & Ethel Holmes Fund97,572
Grace J. Smith Fund13,030
Hanna & Joseph Dubeck Fund5,000
Harold E. Clarke Fund86,120
Harvey and Audrey Smith Fund544,860
Helen Gertrude Harrison Fund34,222
Helen Mary Archambeault Fund25,316
Henrietta F. Campbell Fund104,959
Herbert P. and I. Flora Frid Fund354,466
Horace A. Bennett Fund10,000
Howard & Edna Tugman Memorial Fund100,000
Ian & Donna Cowan Fund5,750
Irene Caldwell Memorial Fund10,000
Community Fund: Arts endowment fund  
Callie Archer Fund†
Gail Robinson-Gow Fund68,245
Linda Towart Arts Endowment Fund10,000
Accumulated donations under $5,000762
Community Fund: Environment endowment fund  
Bob and Peggy Savage Fund15,000
Irene Emilie Lowes Estate21,493
Robert D. Crockford Fund33,120
US Steel Canada Environment Endowment Fund600,000
The Young Fund15,145
Accumulated donations under $5,00010,346

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