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Sarnia, ON · Private foundation

The Judith & Norman Alix Foundation

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$900k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$69k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$546k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$900k
C$60,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$25M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. CLAIR CHILD YOUTH SERVICESC$900,000
ST. CLIAR REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$172,500
LAMBTON UNITED CHURCH CENTREC$100,000
ST JOSEPH'S HOSPICEC$98,152
CONTACT HOUSEC$65,000
YMCA OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIOC$60,000
NOELLE'S GIFT TO CHILDRENC$50,000
ST JOSEPH'S HOSPICEC$40,000
MOORE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETYC$18,500
ST JOSEPH'S HOSPICEC$10,000
MARCH OF DIMES CANDAC$5,000
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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$780k · 6 repeat orgsC$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
21

Total granted

C$780k
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.3M 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
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$383k · revenue +44%
  • YO
    YMCA OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$117k · revenue +13%
  • PH
    PATHWAY HEALTH CENTRE FOR CHILDREN
    2× · 2018–2020 · C$97k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • BH
    BLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$150k · revenue +4%
  • IO
    INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k · revenue +78%
  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SARNIA LAMBTONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$85k · revenue +51%

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
The Social Service Bureau of Sarnia - Lambton Incorporated

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

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2
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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3
Sarnia Lambton White Cane Club
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4
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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5
John Howard Society Sarnia Lambton

Rehabilitation of offenders

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6
Sarnia-Lambton Community Concerns for the Medically Fragile

Community awareness needs of the medically fragile.

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7
Sarnia Community Foundation

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

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8
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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9
Sarnia Minor Athletic Association

Youth sport organization

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10
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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11
The 404 Town House Sarnia Inc.

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…

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12
Sarnia & District Humane Society

Operation of an animal pound with quarantine facility. education programs for the care of animals.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Noelle's Gift to Children and the most unlike its peers is Contact House. 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

28 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. 28 of the 32 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
19/28
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST. CLAIR CHILD YOUTH SERVICES — C$900,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HOSPICE — C$383,152 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetST. CLIAR REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$172,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$117,391 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPATHWAY HEALTH CENTRE FOR CHILDREN — C$97,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SARNIA LAMBTON — C$85,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCOUNTY OF LAMBTON OIL MUSEUM — C$81,100 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetALZHEIMERS SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL — C$75,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCONTACT HOUSE — C$65,000 over 1y, 83% of budgetMOORE AGRICULTURE SOCIETY — C$54,500 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMUNICIPALITYOF BROOKE ALVINSTON — C$54,400 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLAMBTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLAMBTON COUNTY SYMPHONY — C$50,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetNOELLE'S GIFT TO CHILDREN — C$50,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — C$50,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetSCOUTS CANADA — C$40,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWOMENS INTERVAL HOME — C$40,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSOMBRA TOWNSHIP MUSEUM — C$35,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetKIWANIS CHILDREN'S FARM — C$35,000 over 1y, 67% of budgetBLUEWATER HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDRESDEN ROTARY CLUB — C$9,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDRE'S FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 1y, 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.

Sarnia Community FoundationON19.1× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sarnia Community Foundation · United Way of Sarnia-Lambton · Hashtag Charitable Foundation · Rotary Club of Sarnia Charitable Foundation · High Park United Church · Dunlop Central United Church · St. Clair Catholic District School Board · United Way of Chatham-Kent · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie · London Road West United Church · Forest United Church · St John-In-The Wilderness Anglican Church

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 32 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 838791713:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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