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Richmond Hill, ON · Private foundation

The Foundation of Light

It did humanitarian aid work in tanzania & kenya and made gifts to qualified donees.

C$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,364
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISLAM HUMANITARIAN SERVICEC$2,000
ISLAMIC SHIA ITHNA-ASHERT JAMAAT OF TORONTOC$1,364
THE ACADEMY FOR LEARNING ISLAMC$1,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$383k · 5 repeat orgsC$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

C$383k
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • IH
    ISLAMIC HUMANITARIAN SERVICE
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$323k · revenue +39%
  • IS
    ISLAMIC SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI JAMA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$32k · revenue +71%
  • ST
    SAJJADIYYA TRUST
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$16k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • OO
    ORGANIZ OF NORTH AMERICAN SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI MUSLIM COMM
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue -1%
  • NT
    North Toronto Christian School
    one grant, 2017 · C$500 · revenue +19%
  • ZI
    ZANZIBAR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2019 · C$500 · revenue -6%

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
Islamic Information Foundation

Provide information about islam mainly through telephone calls but includes also emails and person-to-person.

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2
Islamic Education & Information Centre
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3
Islamic Humanitarian Service Foundation

It made gifts to qualified donees.

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4
Az-Zahraa Islamic Academy Society
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5
Islamic Academy of Canada

Charitable Activites

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6
The Shining Star Foundation

Providing support for various NPOs and charities who are advanicng the Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri faith through research education and conferences - Providing support and funds for projects to assist poor families in Canada and India by…

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7
Rahim Foundation

Helping people in need through Islamic Relief; Covid reduce program and overall programming this year

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8
Hamdani Islamic Foundation

Donating money to islamic schools mosques other charities and cemeteries

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9
Center for Islamic Sciences

Integrated Encyclopedia of the Qur'an Journal of Islamic Sciences

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10
Centre for Peace Islamic Foundation
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11
Islamic Relief - Ir Canada

Islamic Relief Canada carries out humanitarian and development programs in over 30 countries. Programs include: • Livelihoods focused on climate-adaptive support and/or economic empowerment; • Health including water sanitation and hygiene…

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12
Children of Islamic Nations (C O I N) Inc

Support programs for Orphans from various countries. Emergency relief aid for earthquake - Syrian refugees. Humanitarian relief for victims for various countries .Educational support projects for various countries. Supply of hygiene kits…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto and the most unlike its peers is North Toronto Christian School Interdenominational. 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

11 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
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 budgetISLAMIC HUMANITARIAN SERVICE — C$322,719 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetISLAMIC SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI JAMA — C$31,794 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAJJADIYYA TRUST — C$16,180 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetORGANIZ OF NORTH AMERICAN SHIA ITHNA-ASHERI MUSLIM COMM — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetACADEMY OF ISLAM — C$9,646 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetOrganization of Islamic Learning — C$2,400 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetNorth Toronto Christian School — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZANZIBAR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA HELPS.ORG — C$110 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY INTELLIGENCE CANADA — C$20 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.

Sef FoundationIslamic Shia Ithna-As…Sajjadiyya TrustM.P. Charitable Found…Rahma FoundationShia Muslim Community…North American Shia I…BenefAction FoundationUnited Way of Greater…Charities Aid Foundat…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Charitable Gift Funds…
Sef FoundationON10.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sef Foundation · Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto · Sajjadiyya Trust · M.P. Charitable Foundation · Rahma Foundation · Shia Muslim Community of British Columbia · North American Shia Ithna - Asheri Muslim Communities Organization · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 11 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under teaching institutions.

Source object 840964498:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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