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Oakville, ON · Private foundation

The Lighthouse Charitable Foundation

We donate to charitable organizations to help support children medical research women's organizations religious and food banks in our local community.

C$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k32 grants · C$28k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$241
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Fare Share Food Bank (Oakville) IncC$10,000
Legion of Christ CanadaC$6,000
Covenant HouseC$5,000
Israel Cancer Research Fund (Toronto)C$3,000
PlanC$1,580
Catholic Christian OutreachC$1,500
Feed Halton/Burlington Food BankC$1,000
CAMH FoundationC$1,000
Mary Mother of God ParishC$1,000
Camp Mini-Yo-WeC$750
Food Banks MississaugaC$500
Manna Food Bank BracebridgeC$500
Habitat for HumanityC$500
Harvest Outreach International Inc.C$500
SAVISC$500
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$186k · 42 repeat orgsC$55k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
31

Total granted

C$186k
C$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+23%

Still filing today

98%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$38k 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

  • CH
    COVENANT HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$18k · revenue +64%
  • P
    Plan
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$13k · revenue +13%
  • LO
    LEGION OF CHRIST CANADA INCORPORATED
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$12k · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • HC
    Humanitarian Coalition
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue -30%
  • MS
    Multiple Sclerosis Society of Canada
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +4%
  • OC
    OXFAM CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue +20%

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
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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2
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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3
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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4
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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5
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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6
Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada

Food banks canada's mission is to provide national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow in collaboration with the food bank network in canada. food banks canada is a national charitable organization dedicated to…

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7
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation ('HHSC') is a family of five hospital sites and five specialized facilities in Hamilton and West Niagara. HHSC operates McMaster Children's Hospital Hamilton General Hospital Juravinski Hospital and…

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8
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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9
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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10
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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11
Fund Homecare Canada

Fund Homecare Canada is a Canadian registered charitable not-for-profit organization dedicated to making in-home care accessible to palliative cancer patients—a critical and prevalent need that is unfortunately out of reach for many. We…

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12
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Plan International Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is The Friends of the Bracebridge Public Library. 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

69 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. 69 of the 106 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
49/69
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFARE SHARE FOOD BANK(OAKVILLE) INC. — C$39,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — C$17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of St. Vincent de Paul — C$13,800 over 6y, 34% of budgetPlan — C$13,358 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWE Charity — C$11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLEGION OF CHRIST CANADA INCORPORATED — C$11,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Roman Catholic Diocese of Hamilton — C$7,200 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHRISTIAN OUTREACH — C$5,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKERR STREET MISSION — C$4,880 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD RESCUE — C$4,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHARE — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MISSISSAUGA FOOD BANK — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP MINI-YO-WE — C$3,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBURLINGTON FOOD BANK — C$3,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION SERVICES OF HAMILTON — C$3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHalton Women's Place — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD — C$2,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$2,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHumanitarian Coalition — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartners Worldwide Canada — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMANNA FOOD BANK OF BRACEBRIDGE INC. — C$2,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCAMH Foundation — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Society of Canada — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrincess Margaret Cancer Foundation — C$1,252 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCanada Helps - St. Mary's Cathedral Kingston — C$1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouthlake Regional Health Centre Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWellspring Cancer Support Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDEN FOOD FOR CHANGE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Vision — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Simon Wiesenthal Center — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR LIFE CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJumpstart — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Missions in Canda — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC. — C$750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHeart & Stroke Foundation — C$700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVIS — C$700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHalton District School Board — C$600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Assistance Program — C$600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPendo International Projects — C$550 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOAKVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIsrael Cancer Research Fund — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMosaic Institute — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe War Amps — C$500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEngineers Without Borders — C$500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave the Children — C$500 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.

Oakville Community Fo…United Way Golden Hor…Canada GivesBurlington Community …BenefAction FoundationHamilton Community Fo…Hydro One Employees' …Ontario Credit Union …Charities Aid Foundat…Marian Council 3881 C…Rotary Club of Oakvil…Strategic Charitable …
Oakville Community FoundationON15.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Oakville Community Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Canada Gives · Burlington Community Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Ontario Credit Union Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Marian Council 3881 Charitable Trust · Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar Foundation Inc · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation

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 106 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 826072613:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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