Saint John, NB · Public foundation
The Harbour Lights Campaign Inc.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$16k
- C$10k–50k10 grants · C$244k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT JOHN NORTH FOOD BANK ASSOC. | C$56,609 |
| SAINT JOHN COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET | C$40,949 |
| SAINT JOHN EAST FOOD BANK | C$40,840 |
| VOLUNTEER CENTER OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INC | C$35,885 |
| WEST SIDE FOOD BANK | C$32,446 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY SUSSEX FOOD BANK | C$19,797 |
| HAMPTON FOOD BANK INC | C$19,577 |
| ST. GEORGE & AREA FOOD BANK | C$15,720 |
| THE SUSSEX SHARING CLUB | C$15,092 |
| KENNEBECASIS VALLEY FOOD BASKET | C$12,689 |
| LAKEWOOD HEADSTART ASSOC INC | C$11,204 |
| ACTION MINISTRIES OF GRAND MANAN | C$5,861 |
| ST ANDRES OPEN DOOR PROGRAM | C$4,924 |
| RIVER VALLEY FOOD BASKET | C$2,382 |
| CAMPOBELLO FOOD BANK | C$1,525 |
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.
18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD BASKET OF SAINT JOHN INC.7× · 2017–2024 · C$291k · revenue +210%
- SJSAINT JOHN NORTH FOOD BANK ASSOC.7× · 2017–2024 · C$287k · revenue +520%
- SJSAINT JOHN EAST FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2024 · C$213k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- RVRIVER VALLEY FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2018 · C$1k
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.
Provides food for people in need
Assist low income families and individuals with food and other supplies.
Food bank
Food distribution service to those who can't adequately provide for their own nutritional needs
Operation of food bank for people in need
Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities
Distribution of food to individuals experiencing food insecurity.
Monthly and emergency food hamper distribution
The SMB Food Bank operates to serve the area from Lake of the Woods subdivision in Hubley to Head of St Margaret's Bay to Hubbards then Hammonds Plains Road (Rte 213) and to Peggy's Cove Road (Rte. 333). We also provide second hand…
Provide food for needy people in our catchment area. we also give out emergency baskets of food as well s extra food at christmas & for the summer.
Food Bank
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint John East Food Bank Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Church of Christ. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 19 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 COMMUNITY FOOD BASKET OF SAINT JOHN INC. ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN NORTH FOOD BANK ASSOC. ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN EAST FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF CHARLOTTE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUSSEX SHARING CLUB ↗
- Who funds ST. GEORGE & AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds KENNEBECASIS VALLEY FOOD BASKET ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY SUSSEX FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LAKEWOOD HEADSTART ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANDREWS OPEN DOOR PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds ACTION MINISTRIES OF GRAND MANAN ↗
- Who funds RIVER VALLEY FOOD BASKET ↗
- Who funds DEER ISLAND SAFETY NET ↗
- Who funds CAMPOBELLO FOOD BANK ↗
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: Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · Canada Donates Inc. · United Way Serving Saint John Kings and Charlotte Inc. · Fundy Community Foundation · Saint John Community Christmas Exchange · Faye and David Huestis Family Foundation Inc. · My Tribute Gift Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.