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Sarnia, ON · Private foundation

The Gordon Foundation

The foundation uses income earned and donations received to make donations to other registered chartiable organizations in the community

C$232k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$1k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$56k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$175k
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$100,000
THE INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDC$75,000
RIVER CITY VINEYARDC$25,000
AGAPE IN ACTIONC$20,000
ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE OF SARNIA LAMBTONC$10,859
CORUNNA LEGIONC$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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 5 repeat orgsC$166k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$26k 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

  • SJ
    ST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE OF SARNIA LAMBTON
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$386k · revenue +44%
  • BH
    BLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$279k · revenue +81%
  • TI
    THE INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$260k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k
  • HH
    HURON HOUSE BOYS HOME FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue -9%
  • LC
    LAMBTON CRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +28%

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
Habitat for Humanity-Sarnia/Lambton
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2
Sarnia Community Foundation

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

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3
Victorian Order of Nurses Sarnia-Lambton Foundation

The foundation raises money to support the work of the victorian order of nurses ontario branch-sarnia site.

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4
Neighbourlink Sarnia-Lambton

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

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5
Sarnia Lambton Adult Learning Support Services

Donations were sought to support the programs from corporates and individuals. receipts will be issued to donors if any.

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6
John Howard Society Sarnia Lambton

Rehabilitation of offenders

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7
Sarnia-Lambton Future Fund Foundation

The future fund’s primary goal is to provide a permanent source of sustainable income for the united way of sarnia-lambton to invest directly into programs and services in sarnia-lambton.

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8
Sexual Assault Survivors' Centre Sarnia-Lambton

Sexual assult survivors' centre sarnia-lambton provides counselling and support services for victims of sexual assault.

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9
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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10
Society of St Vincent De Paul Our Lady of Mercy Conference (Sarnia)

Accept and process cash donations; process food donations and give to food bank; maintain records; issue yr-end receipts; purchase gift vouchers for christmas hamper request; assist with annual drives for food donations.

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11
Community Living Sarnia-Lambton

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;…

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12
Sarnia Lambton Sports Hall of Fame

Operated and maintained slshof display rooms for general public to visit free of charge. the board votes for inductees who have been nominated by the public. they are then

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Inn of the Good Shepherd (Sarnia ) Inc 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.

02the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
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 budgetST. JOSEPH'S HOSPICE OF SARNIA LAMBTON — C$385,859 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetBLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$279,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD — C$260,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAGRAPE IN ACTION — C$140,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SARNIA-LAMBTON — C$82,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER CITY VINEYARD — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetHURON HOUSE BOYS HOME FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLAMBTON CRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIMPERIAL SARNIA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCORUNNA LEGION — C$1,000 over 1y, 3.3% 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.

Sarnia Community Foun…United Way of Sarnia-…United Way of Calgary…Charitable Gift Funds…My Tribute Gift Found…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Sarnia Community FoundationON11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sarnia Community Foundation · United Way of Sarnia-Lambton · United Way of Calgary and Area · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon

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 2024-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 119235505:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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