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Sarnia, ON · Public foundation

Catherine Wilson Foundation

Donations to advance education for youth and care of youth at risk

C$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$58k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$34k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$25k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$58k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAMBTON KENT DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$58,000
SARNIA LAMBTON REBOUNDC$15,000
SCOUTS CANADA TRI-SHORES REGIONC$10,000
THE INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDC$8,000
LITERACY LAMBTONC$5,000
CNIBC$5,000
COMMUNITY CONCERNS FOR THE MEDICALLY FRAGILEC$5,000
THE INTERNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF SARNIAC$4,500
THE SOCIAL SERVICES BUREAU OF SARNIA-LAMBTONC$4,000
GALLERY IN THE GROVEC$2,300
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$810k · 13 repeat orgsC$44k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

C$810k
C$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-6%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • LK
    LAMBTON KENT DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$293k · revenue ×1,460
  • PH
    PATHWAYS HEALTH CENTRE FOR CHILDREN
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$150k · revenue +81%
  • SL
    SARNIA LAMBTON REBOUND
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$125k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • SM
    SARNIA MINOR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$9k · revenue 0% · 38% of their budget
  • TI
    THE INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
    one grant, 2023 · C$8k
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LAW SCHOOL (SARNIA-LAMBTON) INC.
    one grant, 2019 · C$8k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Habitat for Humanity-Sarnia/Lambton
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2
Sexual Assault Survivors' Centre Sarnia-Lambton

Sexual assult survivors' centre sarnia-lambton provides counselling and support services for victims of sexual assault.

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3
The Women's Interval Home of Sarnia and Lambton Inc.

Provide counselling for women & children (residential & non-residential) provide crisis/support services for women & children (residential & non-residential) operate an 'outreach' program

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4
Brain Injury Association Sarnia-Lambton

Organizing and encouraging group support activity for survivors of brain trauma. interaction and outreach through monthly newsletters and meetings.

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5
John Howard Society Sarnia Lambton

Rehabilitation of offenders

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6
The 404 Town House Sarnia Inc.

The boys and girls club of sarnia provides services in the downtown core area of sarnia to over 800 children and youth yearly by offering programs during the critical out of school hours that build self-esteem and foster strong social and…

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7
Learning Disabilities Association of Windsor-Essex County

Comprehensive services include information and referral access to a lending library social skills development for children and youth literacy and math tutoring technology training engaging summer camps transition planning recreational…

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8
Sd Lambton

Sd lambton provides recreational athletic and educational programs to support physical mental and emotional well being of persons with disabilites

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9
Sarnia Lambton Sports Hall of Fame

Operated and maintained slshof display rooms for general public to visit free of charge. the board votes for inductees who have been nominated by the public. they are then

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10
Lambton County Developmental Services

Provides programs employment and support for developmentally handicapped individuals.

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11
Theatre Sarnia

To provide a cultural outlet/venue for the sarnia lambton community. to promote live entertainment for youth adult senior and multicultural groups of sarnia lambton. to foster and promote amateur theatre and development of talent.

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12
Learning Disabilities Association of Lambton County

Tutoring program for children and their parents social skills program for children to teach social skills and reinforce self esteem parenting program for parents with children with learning disabilities run educational workshops for the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Living Sarnia-Lambton and the most unlike its peers is St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
9/20
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAMBTON KENT DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$292,800 over 7y, 14% of budgetPATHWAYS HEALTH CENTRE FOR CHILDREN — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSARNIA LAMBTON REBOUND — C$125,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetST. ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$55,700 over 4y, 7.6% of budgetCCMF — C$49,000 over 7y, 20% of budgetTHE INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD — C$36,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSCOUTS CANADA - TRI-SHORES REGION — C$27,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetHURON HOUSE BOYS HOME — C$24,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$18,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SARNIA LAMBTON — C$9,900 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSARNIA MINOR ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION — C$9,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetLITERACY LAMBTON — C$8,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING SARNIA-LAMBTON — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INTERNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA OF SARNIA — C$4,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGALLERY IN THE GROVE — C$4,300 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE SOCIAL SERVICES BUREAU OF SARNIA-LAMBTON — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS SARNIA LAMBTON — C$2,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA — C$1,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

United Way of Sarnia-…Sarnia Community Foun…Rotary Club of Sarnia…Sarnia Professional F…Noelle's Gift to Chil…Dunlop Central United…Grace United ChurchHashtag Charitable Fo…United Way of Chatham…Huron Grove FoundationSt. Michael Parish Co…Suncor Energy Foundat…
United Way of Sarnia-LambtonON15.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Sarnia-Lambton · Sarnia Community Foundation · Rotary Club of Sarnia Charitable Foundation · Sarnia Professional Firefighter Association Community Benefit Fund/Registered Charities Division · Noelle's Gift to Children · Dunlop Central United Church · Grace United Church · Hashtag Charitable Foundation · United Way of Chatham-Kent · Huron Grove Foundation · St. Michael Parish Council No. 10102 Charitable Welfare Trust · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 870600335:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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