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Sarnia, ON · Public foundation

Sarnia Community Foundation

Community foundation which makes grants to registered charities based on the assessed needs of the charities.

C$744k
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$54k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k45 grants · C$156k
  • C$10k–50k28 grants · C$534k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$54k
C$5,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$53,524
SARNIA CHRISTIAN SCHOOLC$49,858
REDEEMER CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCHC$39,000
THE INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDC$38,784
FAMILY FOUNDATIONS INSTITUTEC$35,500
ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE SARNIA LAMBTONC$30,481
AAMJIWNAANG ATHLETIC CLUBC$27,214
REDEEMER UNIVERSITY COLLEGEC$24,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SARNIA LAMBTONC$22,418
ST. CLAIR CHILD AND YOUTHC$22,032
P.E. MCGIBBON PUBLIC SCHOOLC$21,230
CITY OF FORT SASKATCHEWANC$21,000
10 PEAKS INNOVATION ALLIANCE (NATIVE INTIATIVE)C$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB SARNIA LAMBTONC$14,500
HIGH PARK SCHOOL-HOLC CENTREC$14,000
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.8M · 103 repeat orgsC$666k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

103 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
118

Total granted

C$3.8M
C$536k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+14%

Still filing today

85%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$130k 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

  • IO
    INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$278k · revenue +109%
  • TC
    THE CARDUS INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$236k · revenue +48%
  • RC
    REDEEMER CHRISTIAN CHURCH
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$225k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2023 · C$93k · revenue +9% · 38% of their budget
  • SC
    ST. CLAIR REGIONAL CONSERVATION AUTHORITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$31k · revenue +63%
  • HH
    HURON HOUSE BOYS HOMEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$28k · revenue +148%

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
Children's Aid Society of the City of Sarnia and County of Lambton

The Children's Aid Society of the City of Sarnia and County of Lambton provides protection services under the Children Youth and Family Services Act (CYFSA). The organization works closely with families community partners and First Nations…

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2
The Bluewater Children's Foundation

The Bluewater Children's Foundation supports the services and programs of the Children's Aid Society of the City of Sarnia and County of Lambton Programs include the following: Summer Camp Educational Support Indigenous programs Emergency…

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3
Sarnia-Lambton Crime Stoppers Inc.

Assist police in solving crimes in the sarnia-lambton area through community advertising and by offering rewards to individuals who provide information which assists in solving crimes.

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4
Limestone Learning Foundation

The Limestone Learning Foundation (LLF) promotes enhanced learning opportunities in the five key areas: literacy & numeracy science & environmental visual arts & music health & wellness and technology that demonstrate creativity innovation…

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5
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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6
The Lawson Foundation

The lawson foundation is a canadian family foundation that invests in and engages with ideas people and organizations that contribute to the healthy development of children and youth. our primary areas of focus include: early child…

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7
Saskatoon Public Schools Foundation Corp.

Camp Brain Power Tutor Program Nutrition support Power Up Projects Eco-Science Centre Science and Math Centre donor directed grants to school programs and playgrounds Cheer Crates Early Learning Literacy Programming.

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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
Southwestern Ontario Optimist Conductive Ed Trust Fund

4 two-week camps for children with cerebral palsy and other neurological disorders the camps are normally held in sarnia windsor chatham and london ontario

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10
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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11
The Toronto Star Children's Charities

The purpose of The Toronto Star Children’s Charities is to inspire hope joy and curiosity in kids through its initiatives such as the Santa Claus Fund and the Fresh Air Fund. The Toronto Star Fresh Air Fund provides grants to camp…

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12
Lambton County Developmental Services

Provides programs employment and support for developmentally handicapped individuals.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Sarnia-Lambton and the most unlike its peers is Redeemer University. 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

169 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. 169 of the 241 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)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
163/169
Grantees still filing
112/169
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$280,602 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetINN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD — C$278,460 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CARDUS INSTITUTE — C$235,936 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetREDEEMER CHRISTIAN CHURCH — C$224,836 over 6y, 12% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$200,688 over 8y, 23% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HOSPICE — C$171,073 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetREDEEMER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — C$158,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetST. CLAIR CHILD AND YOUTH — C$153,343 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$93,420 over 1y, 38% of budgetVICTIM SERVICES OF SARNIA LAMBTON — C$91,326 over 3y, 22% of budgetSCF -HALCOVITCH'S OUTDOOR LEARNING — C$84,121 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetORGANIZATION FOR LITERACY — C$77,782 over 7y, 14% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$73,860 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST. CLAIR DISTRICT CATHOLIC ED FUND — C$65,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetFAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$64,863 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetFAMILY FOUNDATIONS INSTITUTE — C$57,250 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING SARNIA LAMBTON — C$54,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLAMBTON MENTAL WELLNESS CENTRE — C$52,743 over 3y, 18% of budgetSSVP FOOD BANK — C$49,855 over 7y, 80% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY — C$49,082 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SARNIA LAMBTON — C$48,118 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetLAMBTON UNITED CHURCH CENTRE — C$44,209 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetPETROLIA DISCOVERY — C$43,897 over 3y, 15% of budgetST. LUKE'S UNITED CHURCH - THE HUB — C$43,373 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetEAST SCARBOROUGH STOREFRONT — C$40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSarnia Christian School — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSARNIA LAMBTON REBOND-THE HUB — C$39,300 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$38,464 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTheatre Sarnia — C$35,532 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetVON-SARNIA LAMBTON — C$33,192 over 3y, 19% of budgetSACRED HEART CHURCH — C$31,748 over 4y, 87% of budgetWOMEN'S INTERVAL HOME SARNIA LAMBTON — C$31,158 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$31,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST. CLAIR REGIONAL CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$30,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB SARNIA LAMBTON — C$30,382 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetHURON HOUSE BOYS HOME — C$27,812 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHURON HOUSE BOYS HOME — C$27,688 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetNORTH LAMBTON HEALTH CENTER — C$26,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRAY JON SHARECARE — C$24,334 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPATHWAYS HEALTHCENTRE FOR CHILDREN — C$23,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBEYOND FOOD COMMUNITY HUB — C$23,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetST JOHN XXIII CATHOLIC SCHOOL — C$21,439 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FOOD GRAINS BANK — C$20,411 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF ELK ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS — C$19,878 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF CREEK PUBLIC SCHOOLS — C$19,334 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA Adopt a Player Hockey Subsidy — C$18,862 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS SCOUTS — C$18,807 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE — C$18,250 over 3y, 4.8% 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.

  • Who funds LAMBTON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD ↗
  • Who funds THE CARDUS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds REDEEMER CHRISTIAN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds REDEEMER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ST. CLAIR CHILD AND YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds VICTIM SERVICES OF SARNIA LAMBTON ↗
  • Who funds SCF -HALCOVITCH'S OUTDOOR LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds ORGANIZATION FOR LITERACY ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds ST. CLAIR DISTRICT CATHOLIC ED FUND ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY FOUNDATIONS INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING SARNIA LAMBTON ↗
  • Who funds LAMBTON MENTAL WELLNESS CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds SSVP FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THE UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SARNIA LAMBTON ↗
  • Who funds LAMBTON UNITED CHURCH CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds PETROLIA DISCOVERY ↗
  • Who funds ST. LUKE'S UNITED CHURCH - THE HUB ↗
  • Who funds EAST SCARBOROUGH STOREFRONT ↗
  • Who funds Sarnia Christian School ↗
  • Who funds SARNIA LAMBTON REBOND-THE HUB ↗
  • Who funds BLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Theatre Sarnia ↗
  • Who funds VON-SARNIA LAMBTON ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S INTERVAL HOME SARNIA LAMBTON ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds ST. CLAIR REGIONAL CONSERVATION AUTHORITY ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB SARNIA LAMBTON ↗
  • Who funds HURON HOUSE BOYS HOME ↗
  • Who funds HURON HOUSE BOYS HOME ↗

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-…Hashtag Charitable Fo…The Judith & Norman A…Rotary Club of Sarnia…St. Michael Parish Co…St. Clair Catholic Di…Central United ChurchDunlop Central United…Grace United ChurchUnited Way of Chatham…Catherine Wilson Foun…Forest United Church
United Way of Sarnia-LambtonON36.8× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Sarnia-Lambton · Hashtag Charitable Foundation · The Judith & Norman Alix Foundation · Rotary Club of Sarnia Charitable Foundation · St. Michael Parish Council No. 10102 Charitable Welfare Trust · St. Clair Catholic District School Board · Central United Church · Dunlop Central United Church · Grace United Church · United Way of Chatham-Kent · Catherine Wilson Foundation · 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.

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 241 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 community resource.

Source object 119227452:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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