Sarnia, ON · Charitable organization
First Christian Reformed Church Sarnia
To spread the gospel at home and abroad through preaching teaching and sharing.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD RENEW | C$7,203 |
| REDEEMER COLLEGE | C$5,000 |
| CANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK | C$3,856 |
| INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | C$3,358 |
| WOMANS INTERVAL HOME | C$2,992 |
| LAMBTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY | C$2,500 |
| ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE | C$1,871 |
| REFRAME MINISTRIES | C$1,589 |
| NEIGHBOURLINK | C$1,538 |
| LONDON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL | C$1,453 |
| LAMBTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY | C$1,256 |
| LAMBTON COLLEGE MINISTRIES | C$1,200 |
| COMMUNITY LIVING | C$1,036 |
| LAMBTON CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTRE | C$978 |
| EDUDEO MINISTRIES | C$445 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 83% of grant dollars (C$280k). The 17% that went abroad (C$58k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 17% of all-years giving (C$58k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k went to new ones.
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
- WRWorld Renew7× · 2017–2024 · C$70k · revenue +1%
- LCLAMBTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · C$40k · revenue +28%
- RCREDEEMER COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · C$36k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- WRWORLD RENEWone grant, 2019 · C$15k
- LCLAMBTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · C$10k
- RCREDEEMER COLLEGEone 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.
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.
To provide training and teaching to Christian church leaders around the world.
International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…
Educational programs in canada and around the world equipping and releasing believers to make disciples of jesus.
Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…
The mission of global scholars canada is to identify develop send equip and support missional christian academics for work primarily in open enrollment post secondary institutions around the world with the objective to inspire and…
Transforming lives through god's word through bible translation bible publishing and bible engagement programs throughout canada and the world.
Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…
The canadian lutheran bible institute (clbi) is a discipleship training centre. we are biblical confessional and evengelical embracing christ's great commission. our mission is to train equip and empower servant-leaders of all ages within…
A) to provide personnel and resources for christian organizations and ministries; and b) to provide training and materials to christian leaders and individuals involved in evanglism and christian ministry worldwide
Christian Reformed World Missions is the international evangelism ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. Activities include evangelism, discipleship, and missions programs around the world.
Cbm is a global mission organization committed to sharing god's love through word and deed. we believe that god brings healing to a broken world through local churches. with over 150 years of experience we have seen that words and deeds…
Tyndale University is dedicated to the pursuit of truth to excellence in teaching learning and research for the enriching of mind heart and character to serve the church and the world for the glory of God. Ongoing programs: 1) To provide a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian School Foundation (Canada) Inc. and the most unlike its peers is The Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
26 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. 26 of the 52 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds World Renew ↗
- Who funds LAMBTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds REDEEMER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOURLINK ↗
- Who funds Wycliffe Canada ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK ↗
- Who funds ST.JOSEPH'S HOSPICE ↗
- Who funds Pioneer ↗
- Who funds WOMANS INTERVAL HOME ↗
- Who funds DIACONAL MINISTRIES (NEW GROUND) ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds REFRAME MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Samaritan Foundation ↗
- Who funds Friendship Group ↗
- Who funds LAMBTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YMCA Friendship House ↗
- Who funds Cadets Calvanist Cadet Corps ↗
- Who funds LONDON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN SECONDARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds World Home Bible League ↗
- Who funds Disability Concerns ↗
- Who funds EDUDEO MINISTRIES ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Living Hope Christian Reformed Church of Sarnia · Sarnia Community Foundation · Redeemer Christian Reformed Church of Sarnia · United Way of Sarnia-Lambton · Christian Stewardship Services · Rotary Club of Sarnia Charitable Foundation · Dunlop Central United Church · St Giles Presbyterian Church · Central United Church · High Park United Church · Grace United Church · Forest United Church
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.