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Grand Bend, ON · Public foundation

Sunset Community Foundation

The SUNSET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION and its donors strengthen the grand bend/lambton shores community and communities in huron county and north middlesex area community by building and managing permanent endowment funds distributing strategic and effective grants and providing community leadership as a resource and a partner.

C$167k
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k60 grants · C$137k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$30k
C$1,623
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY PERTH HURONC$10,000
HURON COUNTRY PLAYHOUSEC$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOUTH HURONC$10,000
GRAND BEND AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTREC$9,666
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$7,100
HURON SHORES UNITED CHURCHC$7,000
AUSABLE BAY FIELD CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$7,000
HURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVALC$6,000
GRAND BEND AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTREC$5,800
UNITED WAY PERTH HURONC$5,000
LAKE HURON COASTAL CENTREC$5,000
WILDLIFE PRESERVATION CANADAC$5,000
MUNICIPALITY OF LAMBTON SHORESC$5,000
FOREST CLIFF CAMPS INCC$5,000
MUNICIPALITY OF LAMBTON SHORESC$4,500
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 89% of grant dollars (C$1.2M). The 11% that went abroad (C$157k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 11% of all-years giving (C$157k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$835k · 46 repeat orgsC$553k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
92

Total granted

C$835k
C$521k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+10%

Still filing today

83%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$32k 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

  • HC
    HURON COUNTY FOOD BANK DISTRIBUTION CENTRE (CSRF GRANT)
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$76k · revenue +276%
  • JH
    JESSICA'S HOUSE HOSPICE (CSRF GRANT)
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$59k · revenue +18%
  • AB
    AUSABLE BAY FIELD CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$57k · revenue +459%

Funded once

  • FC
    FOREST CLIFF CAMPS INC (CSRD GRANT)graduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$99k · revenue +28%
  • AS
    ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY HURON PERTH (CSRF GRANT)graduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$61k · revenue +25%
  • HW
    HURON WOMEN'S SHELTER
    one grant, 2020 · C$32k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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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The Halton Region Conservation Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to support and advance Conservation Halton's critical environmental projects that protect our natural assets connect people with nature and inspire change. Fund raised support programs such as tree planting…

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2
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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3
Sunset Community Foundation

The sunset community foundation and its donors strengthen the grand bend/lambton shores community and communities in huron county and north middlesex area community by building and managing permanent endowment funds distributing strategic…

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4
Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation

Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation (Community Foundation) facilitates philanthropy and provides gifts and resources to community service organizations delivering vital programs and services to the residents in Stratford St.…

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5
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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6
Erie Shores Health Foundation

Erie shores health foundation raises capital for new equipment and building infrastructure for erie shores healthcare; capital campaigns currently being supported include diagnostic imaging mri equipment and urology. erie shores health…

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7
Algoma Community Foundation

Community foundations in canada are registered public charities that contribute to local initiatives by convening community actors around issues of local importance capacity building grant making information gathering and sharing

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8
North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation

Primary goal is to provide funds for patient-focused care education and research for the benefit of the patients of Nipissing region of Northeastern Ontario. Encourage and administer donations to enhance and improve the services to the…

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9
Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority

To provide leadership in the protection and restoration of the environmental health and quality of Lake Simcoe and its watershed with our community municipal and other government partners. Provide technical and educational services. The…

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10
Waterfront Regeneration Trust Corporation

Mandate: expand complete market and promote the great lakes waterfront trail and greenway. programs include: expanding the trail from simcoe to sudbury and along the lake huron north channel expanding the trail along lake superior advocacy…

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11
Hamilton Community Foundation

Hamilton community foundation drives positive change in hamilton by building and managing endowed and other charitable funds and making strategic and effective grants and loans to charitable organizations and initiatives. we facilitate…

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12
The Guelph Community Foundation

The guelph community foundation and its donors strengthen our community by making grants building and maintaining endowment funds and serving our community as a philanthropic resource and partner. grants are disbursed to qualified donees…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southwestern Ontario and the most unlike its peers is Jessica's House Hospice. 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

68 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. 68 of the 145 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
40/68
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOREST CLIFF CAMPS INC (CSRD GRANT) — C$98,740 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHURON COUNTY FOOD BANK DISTRIBUTION CENTRE (CSRF GRANT) — C$76,394 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY HURON PERTH (CSRF GRANT) — C$60,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJESSICA'S HOUSE HOSPICE (CSRF GRANT) — C$58,800 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetAUSABLE BAY FIELD CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$56,516 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetHURON SHORES UNITED CHURCH (CSRF GRANT) — C$50,692 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR EDUCATION PERTH HURON (CSRF GRANT) — C$38,135 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOUTH HURON (GGBF GRANT) — C$37,280 over 3y, 18% of budgetLambton Kent District School Board — C$32,970 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF PINERY PARK (GGBF GRANT) — C$32,800 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetGRAND BEND AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$32,196 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBLYTH CENTRE FOR THE ARTS (CSRF GRANT) — C$27,851 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetGRAND BEND ART CENTRE (GGBF GRANT) — C$27,500 over 5y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY PERTH HURON — C$21,800 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetGRAND BEND NON-PROFIT HOUSING (NEW CARPETING OF SAUBLE COURT — C$19,662 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetRCL Branch #498-Poppy fund — C$15,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetThe United Church of Canada — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHURON WAVES MUSIC FESTIVAL — C$13,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetBLESSINGS COMMUNITY STORE (CSRF GRANT) — C$12,760 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSCOUTING 1ST EXETER — C$11,800 over 5y, 18% of budgetHURON PERTH PUBLIC HEALTH — C$11,472 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS CLUB OF GODERICH (UKRAINE RESETTLEMENT FUND TO — C$11,287 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBig Brothers and Big Sisters South Huron — C$10,250 over 1y, 18% of budgetHURON COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Stratford Shakesperean Festival of Canada — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE PRESERVATION CANADA (GGBF GRANT) — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAVON MAITLAND DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$9,861 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORDER OF ALHAMBRA ALGARVA CHARITY COUNCIL (GGBF GRANT — C$8,200 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetGRACE BIBLE CHAPEL (FROM PAUL TURNBULL) — C$8,100 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetFOREST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLAKE HURON COASTAL CENTRE — C$7,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$7,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS GIRLS CLUB SARNIA-LAMBTON (KID FOOD NUTRITION GRANT) — C$7,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetROTARY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$6,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetVISION MINISTRIES (FROM PAUL TURNBULL) — C$6,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIABETES CANADA — C$5,999 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOne Care Home & Community Support Services — C$5,460 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LIVERY — C$5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Huron Hospital Foundation — C$4,945 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITERACY LAMBTON — C$4,700 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION CANADA (FROM PAUL TURNBULL) — C$4,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGODERICH LITTLE THEATRE — C$3,833 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetNORTH MIDDLESEX YMCA (2023 SUMMER CAMP BUS TRIPS) — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTANNER STEFFLER — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRURAL RESPONSE FOR HEALTHY CHILDREN — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEXETER UNITED CHURCH (SOUTH HURON ARTS CENTRE GRANT) — C$2,450 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL TEAMS CANADA (FROM PAUL TURNBULL) — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

United Way of Perth-H…Lions Club of Goderic…London Community Foun…Grand Bend Rotary - C…Brucefield Community …Blessings Community S…Stratford and Perth C…Sarnia Community Foun…The Roman Catholic Ep…Elgin-St. Thomas Comm…White Squirrel Cares …Dove's Nest Ministry
United Way of Perth-HuronON15.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Perth-Huron · Lions Club of Goderich Charitable Trust · London Community Foundation · Grand Bend Rotary - Charitable Trust · Brucefield Community United Church · Blessings Community Store · Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation · Sarnia Community Foundation · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of London in Ontario · Elgin-St. Thomas Community Foundation · White Squirrel Cares Foundation · Dove's Nest Ministry

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 145 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 foundations.

Source object 865368526:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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