Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Advent Lutheran Church
HOLD WEEKLY Hybrid SERVICES (in person plus via Zoom for immune compromised shut ins or away on vacation) AND PROVIDE MINISTRIES FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH PROVIDE PASTORAL CARE RUN ADULT BIBLE STUDIES DONATE MONEY TO ELCIC & CLWR DISASTER RELIEF PROGRAMS.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k6 grants · C$7k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$22k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alberta Synod of The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada | C$22,080 |
| Canadian Lutheran World Relief | C$3,520 |
| KURIAKOS | C$1,795 |
| Lutheran Campus Ministry - Synod of Alberta and the Territor | C$1,100 |
| Southwest Area Refugee Mission | C$400 |
| St. Edmund King and Martyr Food Bank | C$200 |
| Lutheran Care Ministry | C$150 |
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 +70% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$350 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
- ASALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CANADA7× · 2018–2024 · C$170k · revenue +13%
- CLCanadian Lutheran World Relief6× · 2018–2024 · C$25k · revenue +92%
- CICALGARY INTERFAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY3× · 2017–2021 · C$950 · revenue +80%
Funded once
- ELEvangelical Lutheran Church of Canadaone grant, 2017 · C$28k
- CLCanadian Lutheran World Reliefone grant, 2017 · C$14k · revenue -27%
- ELEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CANADAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$6k · revenue +70%
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.
Weekly worship services christian education for children youth and adults pastoral care community outreach financial support for the alberta synod of the evangelical lutheran church in canada
A community church serving god through christian-centred learning including the following programs: weekly worship sunday school bible studies and prayer ministries.
Christian Ministries Adult & Children's Christian Education Youth work Councelling Christian Outreach Support of other ministries and Social Agencies. Support National Church - mission work and Worldwide Relief Support of National and…
We are a Community Church holding weekly worship services. We provide Sunday School and Vacation Bible School activities as well as programs for Youth and Seniors. We give Pastoral care. We donate funds to denominational headquarters for…
Weekly worship services ministries to women men youth and seniors on a weekly and monthly basis. Pastoral care donate funds to local and overseas missions Weekly religious instruction Annual lunches and dinners to inner city missions.…
To be a caring spiritually growing and family oriented congregation promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ through discipleship contemporary worship and community service.
Public worship services bible studies religious education outreach ministries.
Preaching and teaching the gospel of jesus christ; weekly worship services; prayer; pastoral care; religious instructin; fellowship; ministries for men women and children; support for missions.
1. religious advancement 2. financial support for ministry to minorities in canada 3. financial support for ministry work outside of canada 4. financial support for education in theology through grants to lutheran seminaries in canada 5.…
The mission of First Mennonite Church is to support the Christian faith through fellowship and worship spread the Word of God and to help those in need. In Calgary we provide a place of worship Christian leadership and counseling services.…
Weekly worship services for members and surrounding communities presented both online and in-person. sunday school for children aged 4 to 12. weekly spiritual learning and social activities. pastoral care and communications to members and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the most unlike its peers is Inn From the Cold Society. 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 23 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 ALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds Canadian Lutheran World Relief ↗
- Who funds Canadian Lutheran World Relief ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds CALGARY INTERFAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Inn from the Cold ↗
- Who funds One World CUPS ↗
- Who funds VETERANS FOOD BANK ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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.