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Sarnia, ON · Charitable organization

Grace United Church

Ministering to the needs of the congregation Christian Development of young people through youth worship and mid-week activities.

C$28k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$8k
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.

C$2,340
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADAC$7,625
THE INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDC$4,635
RAYJONC$3,485
LAMBTON CENTREC$2,855
BRIGDEN UNITED CHURCHC$2,340
HABITAT FOR HUMANITYC$2,065
BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION - SARNIA LAMBTONC$1,800
NIGHTLIGHTC$1,625
BLUEWATER GROWING PROJECTC$1,000
WOMEN'S INTERVAL HOME OF SARNIA AND LAMBTON INC.C$150
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$282k · 10 repeat orgsC$28k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
13

Total granted

C$282k
C$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+44%

Still filing today

90%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • TU
    THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$213k · revenue +22%
  • BU
    Brigden United Church
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$22k · revenue +15%
  • R
    Rayjon
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$18k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • HH
    HURON HOUSE BOYS HOME FOUNDATION INC.
    one grant, 2019 · C$4k · revenue +2%
  • MS
    Mercy Shipsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +27%
  • TI
    THE INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k

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.

1
John Howard Society Sarnia Lambton

Rehabilitation of offenders

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2
Sarnia-Lambton Community Concerns for the Medically Fragile

Community awareness needs of the medically fragile.

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3
Neighbourlink Sarnia-Lambton

Food pntry cribs bedding baby formula diapers financial aid for medical dental rent and utilities emergencies warmth packages for homeless persons linking clients to bed donations furniture and appliances

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4
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Sarnia-Lambton

In our big brothers big sisters community based program we match boys and girls with an adult role model on a one to one basis. children are also eligible for our couple matching program. in addition the agency macthes both boys and girls…

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5
Bluewater Health

Bluewater health operates on two sites -- one in sarnia ontario and the other in petrolia ontario. bluewater health is a public hospital providing medical psychological rehabilitative and continuing care for acute patients. we have one…

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6
United Way of Sarnia-Lambton

Big brothers big sisters bgc sarnia-lambton canadian red cross family counselling center habitat for humanity the inn of the good shepherd john howard society lambton elderly outreach new beginnings abi & stroke recovery association north…

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7
Victim Services of Sarnia-Lambton Incorporated

Victim crisis assistance ontario: providing emotional and pratical support to victims of crime and tragedy volunteer support programs

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8
Lambton County Developmental Services

Provides programs employment and support for developmentally handicapped individuals.

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9
Community Law School

Community law school (cls) offers public legal education programs workshops and community college courses to community organizations social service agencies consumers and lay advocates in the sarnia-lambton area and partners with lambton…

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10
Sarnia Lambton White Cane Club
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11
St. Joseph's Hospice Resource Centre of Sarnia Lambton

St.joseph's hospice resource centre of sarnia lambton provides medical health and support services including counselling to terminally ill individuals and their families. they operate a ten-bed hospice facility with an emphasis on…

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12
Sarnia Lambton Adult Learning Support Services

Donations were sought to support the programs from corporates and individuals. receipts will be issued to donors if any.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Women's Interval Home of Sarnia and Lambton Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Mercy Ships Canada Society. 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

24 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. 24 of the 26 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
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$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA — C$212,640 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBrigden United Church — C$22,034 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetRayjon — C$17,591 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD — C$9,355 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$6,190 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRebound — C$4,433 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLambton Centre — C$4,260 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHURON HOUSE BOYS HOME FOUNDATION INC. — C$3,872 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMercy Ships — C$2,843 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPathways — C$2,633 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF THE CITY OF SARNIA AND COUNTY OF L — C$2,005 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATER FIRST EDUCATION AND TRAINING INC. — C$1,909 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION - SARNIA LAMBTON — C$1,800 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetOrganization for Literacy in Lambton — C$1,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPARENTS FOR CHILDRNES MENTAL HEALTH — C$1,367 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFamily Counselling Centre — C$1,349 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSexual Assault Survivor Cene — C$1,276 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING SARNIA-LAMBTON — C$1,265 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEWATER GROWING PROJECT — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salvation Army - Kamloops — C$671 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERVAL HOME OF SARNIA AND LAMBTON INC. — C$290 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$20 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.

Sarnia Community Foun…United Way of Sarnia-…Dunlop Central United…Rotary Club of Sarnia…Central United ChurchLondon Road West Unit…Noelle's Gift to Chil…Catherine Wilson Foun…St. Michael Parish Co…Hashtag Charitable Fo…Living Hope Christian…Courtright Charge Uni…
Sarnia Community FoundationON16.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sarnia Community Foundation · United Way of Sarnia-Lambton · Dunlop Central United Church · Rotary Club of Sarnia Charitable Foundation · Central United Church · London Road West United Church · Noelle's Gift to Children · Catherine Wilson Foundation · St. Michael Parish Council No. 10102 Charitable Welfare Trust · Hashtag Charitable Foundation · Living Hope Christian Reformed Church of Sarnia · Courtright Charge United Church of Canada

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 26 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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 107445488:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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