Richmond Hill, ON · Private foundation
The Shining Star Foundation
Providing support for various NPOs and charities who are advanicng the Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri faith through research education and conferences - Providing support and funds for projects to assist poor families in Canada and India by relieving poverty and defraying costs of basic necessities (food medicine and healthcare) -…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$8k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$51k
- C$50k–250k3 grants · C$356k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Al-Ayn Social Care | C$300,000 |
| Sajjadiyya Trust | C$171,000 |
| Shi'a Research Institute | C$127,472 |
| CareAidAfrica Foundation | C$57,429 |
| ISIJ of Toronto | C$25,500 |
| HOPE Foundation | C$25,000 |
| Naseeha Mental Health | C$6,000 |
| Muslim Food Bank | C$2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 68% of grant dollars (C$735k). The 32% that went abroad (C$341k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 32% of all-years giving (C$341k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
The charity continued to support programs for the betterment and improvement of community education and healthcare as well as for poverty relief religious dues welfare and humanitarian purposes. these projects were carried out within and…
To relieve poverty by supporting orphans and widows who are the victims of war and terrorism in affected areas by providing financial support to meet their needs of basic essentials of living such as clean drinking water food nutrition…
Providing support for various NPOs and charities who are advanicng the Islamic Shia Ithna Asheri faith through research education and conferences - Providing support and funds for projects to assist poor families in Canada and India by…
Primary and Secondary Students Sponsorships in Pakistan Somaliland and Somalia. Medical Clinic located in the world's largest slum in Karachi offers a wide range of medical services to the general public. Delivering charitable medical and…
Making contributions to diya pakistan
1. Scholarship / educational support provided to 4302 Orphans/deserving students. 2- Food temporary shelter and Hygiene kits were provided to over 8000 families during the Pakistan Foods. 3- House restoration and reconstruction in the…
Charitable Activites
Payment of school fee for orphans as well as providing food basket & gifts to widows/ orphans in india iraq and pakistan.
Islamic youth School establishment maintenance and education. Establishing and running youth elementary school Offering financial aid for education Providing tutorial for needy children Maintaining Islamic worship center Supporting related…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Careaidafrica Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 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.
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 Al-Ayn Social Care ↗
- Who funds Sajjadiyya Trust ↗
- Who funds AS-SADIQ ISLAMIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds CareAidAfrica Foundation ↗
- Who funds ISIJ of Toronto ↗
- Who funds HOPE Foundation ↗
- Who funds Naseeha Mental Health ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM FOOD BANK AND COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC SHIA ITHNA ASHERI ASSOCIATION OF OTTAWA CANADA ↗
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: North American Shia Ithna - Asheri Muslim Communities Organization · M.P. Charitable Foundation · Rahma Foundation · Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto · Shia Muslim Community of British Columbia · Moez & Marissa Kassam Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.