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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

Fondation Lux in Tenebris / Lux in Tenebris Foundation

To receive and maintain a fund or funds and from time to time to gift part or all of the principal capital or income of such fund(s) to qualified donnees as such term is defined in the income tax act ( canada) r.s.c 1985 c.1 (5th supp.) as amended from time to time.

C$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$213k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$532k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$3.1M
C$57,819
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$28M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIVINE RENOVATION MINISTRYC$2,052,000
CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CANADA INCC$666,200
LE VERBE MEDIASC$350,000
ST. IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA PARISHC$200,000
MONTREAL YOUTH FOR CHRISTC$150,000
ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCHC$67,800
LA FONDATION DES SERVICES COMMUNAUTARIES CATHOLIQUES INC.C$57,819
THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESE OF ST CATHARINESC$56,500
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE LOSSC$47,000
MAISON DE SOINS PALLIATIFS DE JOUR ST-RAPHAËL INC.C$45,000
MOMENTUM CATHOLIC SINGLE MOTHERSC$40,000
THE SAINT RAPHAEL'S PALLIATIVE CARE RESIDENCE INC.C$40,000
CHALICE A CATHOLIC SPONSORSHIP PROGRAMC$25,700
THE COMPANIONS OF THE CROSSC$15,000
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$9.6M · 15 repeat orgsC$533k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 10 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

15
10

Total granted

C$9.6M
C$471k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-22%

Still filing today

93%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$62k 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

  • DR
    DIVINE RENOVATION MINISTRY
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$4.1M · revenue +242% · 48% of their budget
  • MY
    MONTREAL YOUTH FOR CHRIST
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue +96% · 39% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FABRIQUE OF THE PARISH OF SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA ARCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +51% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • VS
    VILLA SAINTE MARCELINE
    one grant, 2023 · C$346k · revenue -18%
  • DV
    DOMINUS VOBISCUM: CATHOLIC FAMILY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$40k · revenue -22% · 28% of their budget
  • CT
    CHRIST THE KING PARISHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$32k · revenue ×137

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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Fondation du 21ième siècle de la Communauté Catholique
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2
Organisation Catholique Canadienne pour le Développement et la Paix

The organization aims to promote international solidarity and integral human development through an education program in canada and socio-economic development projects carried out in several countries in latin americ africa asia and the…

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3
The Tour des Pins Institute / L'Institut Tour des Pins

Tdpi operates two centres of foundation one at 1380 pine ave w and the other 1 242 redpath crescent montreal. these centres offer programs which help people to live their christian faith. they also serve as residence for roman catholic…

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4
L'oeuvre pontificale de propagation de la foi Missio Canada

L'oeuvre pontificale de la propagation de la foi missio canada recueille des dons afin de poursuivre sa mission qui est de financer des oeuvres missionnaires à travers le monde

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5
I.R.C.D.- the Institute Research Communication and Development I.R.C.D.- L'Institut pour la Recherche la Communication et le Développement

The following activities were organized throughout the year: 1) spiritual retreats preached by a roman catholic priest. they are meant to help the participants live their faith in their daily lives and to give them practical ideas in how…

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6
Fondation du collége Regina Assumpta
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7
Centre Inter-Diocesain De Formation En Theologie Et En Pastorale
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8
La Fabrique de la paroisse de Saint-François

Exercice de la religion catholique romaine

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9
La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Notre-Dame-de-la-Paix

Promotion de la religion catholique romaine

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10
La Fabrique de la paroisse de Père-Frédéric

Exercice de la religion catholique romaine

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11
La Fabrique de la Paroisse de Saint-Francois-D'Assise / the Fabrique of the Parish of Saint-Francis of Assisi

Administer the practice of the roman catholic religion

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12
Fonds d'aide Sacerdotale inc.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is La Fondation Des Services Communautaires Catholiques Inc./ Foundation of Catholic Community Services Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Le Verbe médias. 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

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 27 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDIVINE RENOVATION MINISTRY — C$4,145,010 over 4y, 48% of budgetMONTREAL YOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$1,688,200 over 5y, 39% of budgetTHE FABRIQUE OF THE PARISH OF SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA ARCH — C$1,100,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetCATHOLIC CHRISTIAN OUTREACH CANADA INC — C$1,068,500 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetLE VERBE MEDIAS — C$450,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetVILLA SAINTE MARCELINE — C$345,750 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLA FONDATION DES SERVICES COMMUNAUTAIRES CATHOLIQUES INC. / — C$270,701 over 5y, 19% of budgetMAISON DE SOINS PALLIATIFS DE JOUR ST-RAPHAËL INC. — C$205,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH — C$179,300 over 3y, 62% of budgetPILLARS TRUST FUND INC. — C$168,536 over 4y, 12% of budgetCHALICE A CATHOLIC SPONSORSHIP PROGRAM — C$125,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMOMENTUM CATHOLIC SINGLE MOTHERS — C$80,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetDOMINUS VOBISCUM: CATHOLIC FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetNET MINISTRIES OF CANADA INC. — C$40,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCHRIST THE KING PARISH — C$32,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SANTA CROCE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetWest Island Pallitive Care Residence Foundation Inc — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMPANIONS OF THE CROSS — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST ISIDORE'S PARISH — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMWANA VILLAGES — C$10,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetLoyola Sigh School Foundation — C$6,030 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLA FABRIQUE DE LA PAROISSE DE SAINT BONAVENTURE ARCHIDIOCESE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTENNIAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLincco - L'Institut pour la Culture et la Cooperation — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Pillars Trust Fund in…Congregation of Notre…Wcpd FoundationRonald and Carmela Vi…Fondation Saint-Patri…Conam Charitable Foun…The Roman Catholic Ep…BenefAction FoundationCanadian National Chr…Jewish Community Foun…United Way of Calgary…Raymond James Canada …
Pillars Trust Fund inc.QC10.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Pillars Trust Fund inc. · Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc. · Wcpd Foundation · Ronald and Carmela Vincelli Family Foundation · Fondation Saint-Patrick de Montréal/Montreal St-Patrick's F oundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall · BenefAction Foundation · Canadian National Christian Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal · United Way of Calgary and Area · Raymond James Canada Foundation

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 27 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 807522438:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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