Sarnia, ON · Public foundation
The Rotary Club of Sarnia - Bluewaterland Charitable Trust F
We continue to participate in activities to raise funds that we will donate back to the community.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Night Light | C$9,850 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$7,667 |
| Rotoract Youth | C$5,982 |
| Habitat For Humanity | C$5,000 |
| Sarnia Lambton Rebound | C$5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$2,500 |
| Sarnia Police Services | C$2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$2,500 |
| Diabetes Canada | C$2,500 |
| Parkinson | C$2,000 |
| St. Vincent De Paul | C$2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$2,000 |
| Lambton Public Health | C$2,000 |
| Bluewater Totes for Hope | C$2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$2,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$51k 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
- HFHabitat for Humanity4× · 2021–2024 · C$20k
- RIRotary International Foundation (Canada)4× · 2017–2020 · C$12k · revenue +1%
- SLSarnia Lambton Rebound2× · 2023–2024 · C$10k
Funded once
- CPCENTENNIAL PARK - CITY OF SARNIAone grant, 2021 · C$42k
- RVRivercity Vineyardone grant, 2023 · C$12k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · C$4k
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.
Rehabilitation of offenders
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
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;…
Sexual assult survivors' centre sarnia-lambton provides counselling and support services for victims of sexual assault.
Community awareness needs of the medically fragile.
Provide counselling for women & children (residential & non-residential) provide crisis/support services for women & children (residential & non-residential) operate an 'outreach' program
Specialized mental health hospital providing tertiary care mental health programs for inpatients and outpatients. - operates satellite locations in the community and through other regional programs and partnerships. in all programs ontario…
Provider of specialized care in aging mental health and rehabilitation
Woodview mental health and autism services is an accredited children's mental health agency. services are provided to children youth and families facing mental health challenges and to individuals of all ages diagnosed with autism spectrum…
Operates a multi site hospital mental health services and long term care residence
Provide safe affordable residential housing for area senior citizens to allow them to live independently and securely with the knowledge and comfort that the adjacent proximity of a full service nursing home which could be available if…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Mental Health Association Lambton Kent Branch and the most unlike its peers is The Kidney Foundation of Canada / La Fondation Canadienne Du Rein. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 70 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.
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: My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.