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Kingston, ON · Private foundation

Samit & Reshma Sharma Foundation

Established with the vision of 'advancing excellence in education'.

C$6.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
Regions reached
C$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$4k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$1.2M
  • C$250k+16 grants · C$4.8M
C$300,003
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$241k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of New BrunswickC$300,003
University of CalgaryC$300,003
Memorial UniversityC$300,003
Dalhousie UniversityC$300,003
Simon Fraser UniversityC$300,003
Toronto Metropolitan UniversitC$300,003
University of ManitobaC$300,003
McGill UniversityC$300,003
University of AlbertaC$300,003
University of OttawaC$300,003
University of Western OntarioC$300,003
University of WaterlooC$300,003
University of VictoriaC$300,003
University of TorontoC$300,003
University of GuelphC$300,003
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$2.2M
British Columbia
C$900k
Saskatchewan
C$853k
Alberta
C$600k
Manitoba
C$500k
Nova Scotia
C$300k
New Brunswick
C$300k
Quebec
C$300k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 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
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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2
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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3
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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4
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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5
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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6
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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7
University of Prince Edward Island

Post-Secondary Education

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8
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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9
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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10
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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11
Universite Concordia

The main mission of the University is to provide post-secondary and graduate education. It engages in research public services and assists students faculties and researchers. Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science Gina Cody…

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12
Universite De Moncton

Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Saskatchewan and the most unlike its peers is South East Cornerstone School Division No. 209. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
1/25
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%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Waterloo — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDalhousie University — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcGill University — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial University — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetToronto Metropolitan Universit — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Brunswick — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Alberta — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Western Ontario — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Manitoba — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Saskatchewan — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Guelph — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$300,003 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSaskatchewan Polytechnic — C$200,004 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRed River College — C$200,004 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of McMaster — C$200,002 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYork University — C$200,002 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Regina — C$200,002 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt. Lawrence College — C$151,003 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGrenfell High Community School — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcNaughton High Principal Fund — C$1,000 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.

Saskatchewan Communit…Saskatoon Community F…The Calgary FoundationStrategic Charitable …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…Canadian Online Givin…
Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.SK9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp. · Saskatoon Community Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 25 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 support of schools and education.

Source object 758102610:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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