Saskatoon Open Door Society

What Saskatoon Open Door Society does

Saskatoon Open Door Society is a Canadian non-profit organization founded in 1980 and headquartered in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. It supports immigrants, refugees, and Indigenous populations across the Saskatoon region and wider Saskatchewan province through settlement services, integration support, health literacy programs, and Mental Health First Aid training. The organization operates with a staff of 101-250 employees and delivers its services at no direct cost to clients, funded instead through government grants and foundation support.

The organization's program portfolio is anchored in two primary service areas. For refugees and newcomers — identified as its primary customer segment — it delivers settlement support, integration services, and health literacy programs, with 315 refugees supported through partnership-funded newcomer settlement programs. For Indigenous populations — its secondary segment — it provides Mental Health First Aid training (delivered to 19 Indigenous individuals in a recent reporting period) and has established educational scholarship programming through a four-year renewed partnership with Indspire. The organization also participates in broader healthcare investment activity, contributing $225,000 across rural hospital foundations since 2020 and a combined $100,000 with the St. Paul's Hospital Foundation and Regina Urgent Care Centre.

The organization's business model is non-commercial: services are delivered free of charge to end beneficiaries, with operating funding drawn from government settlement-program budgets, healthcare foundations, and strategic philanthropic partners. Key funding and delivery partners include Saskatchewan Blue Cross (a core partner supporting both newcomer settlement and Indigenous mental health training), Indspire (a core Indigenous-education partner), and two hospital/urgent-care foundations. The organization maintains no disclosed proprietary technology, product, or AI capability, and operates as a service-delivery body within the Canadian refugee settlement and Indigenous support ecosystem.

Name

Saskatoon Open Door Society

Website

https://sods.sk.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

1980

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Saskatoon Open Door Society is a Saskatoon-based non-profit founded in 1980 that delivers refugee settlement, newcomer integration, Indigenous mental health training, and health literacy programs across Saskatchewan, funded by government grants and foundation partnerships.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Immigrant Settlement and Community Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Refugee & Immigrant Support Services (BPAGAEAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Newcomer & Refugee Student Support Programs (EDAJAGAH), Minority, Indigenous & Disability Rights (BPADAGAH)

Keywords

• Immigrant settlement services
• Refugee resettlement support
• Newcomer integration programs
• Mental health first aid
• Community health literacy

Headquarters

HQ city

Saskatoon

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Others

Core offering

Saskatoon Open Door Society is a non-profit organization that delivers settlement, integration, and health-literacy services to refugees, newcomers, and Indigenous individuals across the Saskatoon region and wider Saskatchewan province. Its offerings include newcomer settlement programs (supporting outcomes such as 315 refugees), Mental Health First Aid training for Indigenous individuals (serving 19 Indigenous persons), and health-literacy programming developed in partnership with healthcare foundations and Indigenous organizations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Newcomer Settlement Programs

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

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Has API

No

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Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Saskatchewan Blue CrosscoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Saskatchewan Blue Cross is a key funding partner supporting newcomer settlement programs. The organization contributed to mental health training initiatives for Indigenous individuals and provided general funding support for settlement services serving 315 refugees.
• IndspirecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Indspire partnership involves a renewed four-year scholarship commitment for Indigenous recipients. The organization supports Indigenous reconciliation through educational scholarships and programs.
• St. Paul's Hospital FoundationminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Received $100,000 combined contribution along with Regina Urgent Care Centre as part of community investment initiatives to support hospital healthcare services.
• Regina Urgent Care CentreminorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2025Received $100,000 combined contribution along with St. Paul's Hospital Foundation to support urgent healthcare services in Regina.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Canadian Red Cross: National humanitarian organization that delivers refugee support, emergency relief, and resettlement services at scale. Broad incumbent with overlapping newcomer and refugee service capabilities but operating across a much wider portfolio.

Direct peers

• COSTI Immigrant Services: One of Canada's largest immigrant and refugee service agencies, providing settlement, language training, and employment services across the Greater Toronto Area. Directly comparable as a nonprofit delivering settlement services to refugees and newcomers in a single Canadian province.
• Immigrant Services Society of BC (ISSofBC): Major Vancouver-based newcomer services organization delivering settlement, language, and refugee support programs. Directly comparable as a regional Canadian nonprofit with similar refugee settlement mandate and government/foundation funding model.
• Calgary Catholic Immigration Society (CCIS): Newcomer settlement agency in Alberta providing refugee support, language training, and integration services. Directly comparable as a regional Canadian nonprofit offering the same core settlement and refugee mandate as SODS.
• MOSAIC: BC-based nonprofit serving immigrants and refugees with settlement, language, employment, and community integration programs. Directly comparable in mission, service mix, and nonprofit structure to Saskatoon Open Door Society.
• Jewish Immigrant Aid Services (JIAS): Canadian nonprofit providing immigration and refugee settlement services across multiple cities. Directly comparable in refugee settlement mandate, though focused on the Jewish community.
• YMCA of Greater Toronto — Newcomer Services: Branch of the YMCA network delivering newcomer settlement, language, and integration services to refugees and immigrants in the GTA. Directly comparable in service offering, target population, and nonprofit funding structure.
• Catholic Cross Cultural Services (CCCS): Toronto-based refugee and immigrant services agency providing settlement, documentation, and integration support. Directly comparable as a Canadian nonprofit serving refugees and newcomers with similar service mix.

Others

• Indspire: National Indigenous-led charity providing scholarships, bursaries, and educational programming. Thematically related through SODS's Indigenous reconciliation work and partnership, though operating primarily in education rather than settlement.
• Saskatchewan Blue Cross: Provincial health benefits provider and a strategic funding partner of SODS. Comparable as a Saskatchewan-based organization with aligned community-investment objectives in health and newcomer support.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/SaskOpenDoor

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