Sarnia, ON · Charitable organization
St. Paul's Outreach Foundation of Sarnia Ontario
55+ senior citizen apartment complex
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER CITY VINEYARD | C$5,400 |
| ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE OF SARNIA LAMBTON | C$4,100 |
| INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD | C$4,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | C$3,100 |
| WOMEN'S INTERVAL HOME | C$2,000 |
| SARNIA LAMBTON REBOUND | C$2,000 |
| PATHWAYS CENTRE FOR CHILDREN | C$2,000 |
| HURON HOUSE BOYS HOME | C$2,000 |
| LIFE SEASONS CARE AND SUPPORT INC. | C$1,000 |
| ST. VINCENT DEPAUL | C$1,000 |
| SARNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | C$1,000 |
| ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION | C$1,000 |
| LAMBTON ELDERLY OUTREACH | C$1,000 |
| BLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION | C$1,000 |
| HURON BAPTIST CHURCH | C$100 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k 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
- IOINN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD6× · 2017–2024 · C$32k · revenue +109%
- SJST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE OF SARNIA LAMBTON6× · 2017–2024 · C$20k · revenue +44%
- SASALVATION ARMY6× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +665%
Funded once
- PCPATHWAYS CENTRE FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2023 · C$2k
- 4S44 Sarnia Imperial Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadrongraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$1k · revenue +55%
- SLSarnia Lambton Children's Aid Societyone grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue +1%
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.
Family couple & individual counselling telephone crisis line & telephone reassurance checks services to the developmentally handicapped early intervention programs for families and children service information & referral program
Sexual assult survivors' centre sarnia-lambton provides counselling and support services for victims of sexual assault.
Rehabilitation of offenders
Provide supports and services to persons (children and adults) with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities via the following seven programs; 1. employment counselling and job development; 2. group living residences 24 hr support;…
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
Community awareness needs of the medically fragile.
The boys and girls club of sarnia provides services in the downtown core area of sarnia to over 800 children and youth yearly by offering programs during the critical out of school hours that build self-esteem and foster strong social and…
To provide a cultural outlet/venue for the sarnia lambton community. to promote live entertainment for youth adult senior and multicultural groups of sarnia lambton. to foster and promote amateur theatre and development of talent.
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…
Youth sport organization
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Sarnia-Lambton and the most unlike its peers is Bluewater Health Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 37 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 INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD ↗
- Who funds ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE OF SARNIA LAMBTON ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S INTERVAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ST. PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds SARNIA LAMBTON REBOUND ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS CENTRE FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SARNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HURON HOUSE BOYS HOME ↗
- Who funds St. Vincent DePaul ↗
- Who funds BLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sarnia Lambton United Way ↗
- Who funds IODE Malcolm Cameron ↗
- Who funds Make a Wish Southwestern Ontario ↗
- Who funds 44 Sarnia Imperial Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron ↗
- Who funds Sarnia Lambton Children's Aid Society ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH - REFUGEE CENTRE ↗
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: Sarnia Community Foundation · Rotary Club of Sarnia Charitable Foundation · High Park United Church · Living Hope Christian Reformed Church of Sarnia · United Way of Sarnia-Lambton · Central United Church · Dunlop Central United Church · Grace United Church · St. Michael Parish Council No. 10102 Charitable Welfare Trust · Redeemer Christian Reformed Church of Sarnia · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie
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.