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Sarnia, ON · Public foundation

United Way of Sarnia-Lambton

Big brothers big sisters bgc sarnia-lambton canadian red cross family counselling center habitat for humanity the inn of the good shepherd john howard society lambton elderly outreach new beginnings abi & stroke recovery association north lambton community health centre rebound salvation army von - county of lambton student…

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
84
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$143k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 84 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k66 grants · C$58k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$156k
  • C$50k–250k11 grants · C$985k
C$510
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SARNIA-LAMBTONC$143,499
YMCAC$123,600
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$119,000
FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTREC$114,445
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBC$103,596
SALVATION ARMYC$74,145
LAMBTON ELDERLY OUTREACHC$71,600
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETYC$70,000
NORTH LAMBTON COMMUNITY H.C.C$60,000
WALPOLE ISLAND FIRST NATIONC$55,000
SARNIA-LAMBTON REBOUNDC$50,000
RIVER CITY VINEYARDC$41,107
INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERDC$31,333
BLUEWATER BAPTIST CHURCHC$21,990
NEW BEGINNINGS ABI STROKE REC.C$20,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 88% of grant dollars (C$9.2M). The 12% that went abroad (C$1.2M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 12% of all-years giving (C$1.2M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.9M · 151 repeat orgsC$510k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

151 repeat relationships — 68 still active in FY2024, 83 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

151
91

Total granted

C$9.9M
C$481k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+9%

Still filing today

83%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$30k 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

  • FC
    FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +44%
  • BB
    Big Brothers, Big Sisters Sarnia-Lambton
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +11% · 38% of their budget
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$642k · revenue +189% · 39% of their budget

Funded once

  • VO
    VICTORIAN ORDER OR NURSES
    one grant, 2020 · C$63k
  • VO
    VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES
    one grant, 2021 · C$55k
  • JH
    JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
United Way of Oakville

Plan & conduct an annual fundraising campaign in the town of Oakville. Distribute funds raised to participating registered charities in accordance with the financial needs of these organizations. Funds are invested in 33 agencies & 54…

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2
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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3
United Way of Calgary and Area

United way of calgary and area is a 100% local charity that brings together donors corporations agencies and government to solve complex issues and improve lives. we strategically invest in local agencies and collaboratives to create…

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4
Canadian Mental Health Association Toronto Branch

Canadian mental health association toronto (cmha toronto) is the city's leading community mental health agency. we provide accessible quality care for people in toronto through programs research and advocacy. from supporting individuals…

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5
United Way of Thunder Bay

United way provides funding to several charitable organizations that provide human care services in these areas of service: counselling poverty & hunger children and youth services volunteer support rehabilitation/recreation crisis &…

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6
Children's Treatment Network of Simcoe York

Children's Treatment Network (CTN) supports children and youth with disabilities and developmental needs in their homes communities and schools. CTN provides programs and services including intake service navigation coordinated service…

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7
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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8
Children's Aid Society of the City of Sarnia and County of Lambton

The Children's Aid Society of the City of Sarnia and County of Lambton provides protection services under the Children Youth and Family Services Act (CYFSA). The organization works closely with families community partners and First Nations…

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9
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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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
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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12
London Cares Homeless Response Services

London Cares is a housing First initiative aimed at individuals experiencing chronic and persistent homelessness based on a highly collaborative community-based approach. London Cares provides 24/7 street outreach support engaging with…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Mental Health Ontario/Sante Mentale Pour Enfants Ontario and the most unlike its peers is The Lambton College of Applied Arts and Technology. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

206 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. 206 of the 255 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
197/206
Grantees still filing
130/206
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetFAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$1,400,814 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetBig Brothers, Big Sisters Sarnia-Lambton — C$1,215,739 over 7y, 38% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$783,915 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$641,870 over 7y, 39% of budgetLAMBTON ELDERLY OUTREACH — C$467,599 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetSarnia-Lambton Rebound — C$377,683 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$342,724 over 6y, 13% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$260,414 over 5y, 72% of budgetCOMMUNITY LIVING SARNIA — C$251,281 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetC.N.I.B. — C$201,646 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVICTORIA ORDER OF NURSES — C$174,550 over 3y, 35% of budgetBLUEWATER BAPTIST CHURCH — C$128,896 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetNORTH LAMBTON COMMUNITY H.C. — C$121,247 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetINN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD — C$117,813 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSt. Clair Child & Youth — C$112,901 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetGrace United Church — C$96,979 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetLambton Seniors Assoc — C$79,198 over 3y, 57% of budgetFinancial Fitness — C$74,998 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetRIVER CITY VINEYARD — C$61,933 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetONTARIO MARCH OF DIMES — C$60,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple Baptist Church — C$47,794 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS ABI STROKE REC. — C$40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetForward City — C$38,122 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetLCDS — C$36,978 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$35,616 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetChrist Lutheran Church — C$30,034 over 2y, 26% of budgetRAPIDS FAMILY HEALTH TEAM — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHARMONY MUSIC EDUCATION FOR YOUTH — C$30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetSarnia and District Humane Society — C$27,826 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBLUEWATER BAPTIST CHURCH — C$27,028 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetST. JOSEPH HOSPICE RESOURCE CENTRE FOR SARNIA — C$23,660 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARMY CADET LEAGUE OF CANADA (ONTARIO) — C$22,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetWYOMING UNITED CHURCH — C$21,116 over 7y, 12% of budgetLIFE'S SEASONS CARE AND SUPPORT INC — C$18,998 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetRAYJON SHARE CARE OF SARNIA INC — C$15,516 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSARNIA LAMBTON FUTURE FUND FOUNDATION — C$15,320 over 3y, 14% of budgetWELLNESS & EMOTIONAL SUPPORT — C$15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetPATHWAYS HEALTH CENTRE FOR CHILDREN — C$14,733 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetST. MICHAEL'S ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH — C$11,186 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetFIRST CHRISTIAN REFORM CHURCH — C$10,975 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Interval House — C$10,590 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetRIVER CITY VINEYARD — C$10,163 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLearning Disabilities — C$9,999 over 1y, 26% of budgetRedeemer Lutheran Church — C$9,789 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSARNIA LAMBTON FUTURE FUND FOUNDATION — C$9,472 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$9,118 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetLIFE'S SEASONS CARE AND SUPPORT INC. — C$8,037 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$8,000 over 5y, 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.

  • Who funds FAMILY COUNSELLING CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers, Big Sisters Sarnia-Lambton ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds LAMBTON ELDERLY OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Sarnia-Lambton Rebound ↗
  • Who funds JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY LIVING SARNIA ↗
  • Who funds C.N.I.B. ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA ORDER OF NURSES ↗
  • Who funds BLUEWATER BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds NORTH LAMBTON COMMUNITY H.C. ↗
  • Who funds INN OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD ↗
  • Who funds St. Clair Child & Youth ↗
  • Who funds Grace United Church ↗
  • Who funds Lambton Seniors Assoc ↗
  • Who funds Financial Fitness ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CITY VINEYARD ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO MARCH OF DIMES ↗
  • Who funds Temple Baptist Church ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS ABI STROKE REC. ↗

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 Foun…United Way of Chatham…Hashtag Charitable Fo…St. Clair Catholic Di…United Way of Canada …United Way of OakvilleUnited Way Elgin Midd…St. Michael Parish Co…Rotary Club of Sarnia…Ontario Power Generat…London Road West Unit…Dunlop Central United…
Sarnia Community FoundationON36.8× affinity42 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 Chatham-Kent · Hashtag Charitable Foundation · St. Clair Catholic District School Board · United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada · United Way of Oakville · United Way Elgin Middlesex · St. Michael Parish Council No. 10102 Charitable Welfare Trust · Rotary Club of Sarnia Charitable Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · London Road West United Church · Dunlop Central United 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 255 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 119278380:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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