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Edmonton, AB · Charitable organization

Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The Synod is shepherd to Lutheran congregations in Alberta Yukon and NT.

C$442k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$183k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$414k
C$9,650
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFC$182,761
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADAC$93,245
LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYC$78,033
FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTAC$60,000
TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHC$10,000
ON EAGLE'S WINGS ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC./LES MINISTERES OC$9,650
THE HASTINGS LAKE LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP ASSOCIATIONC$3,200
Redcliff Action Society for YouthC$3,000
CANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTEC$1,500
SYLVAN LAKE LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP ASSOCIATIONC$300
CANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK ASSOCIATION INC/ASSOCIATION DE LA BC$125
MULHURST LUTHERAN CHURCH CAMP ASSOCIATIONC$60
02Your 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.1M · 18 repeat orgsC$30k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

C$3.1M
C$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+35%

Still filing today

89%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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

  • EL
    EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +39% · 45% of their budget
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$987k · revenue +56%
  • FE
    FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$120k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • LT
    Lutheran Triune Educational and Benevolent Society of Calgargraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$18k · revenue +36% · 29% of their budget
  • LL
    Lakeland Lutheran Church
    one grant, 2022 · C$8k · revenue -7%
  • TM
    THE MUSTARD SEED STREET CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · C$104

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

03Your 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.

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Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The Synod is shepherd to Lutheran congregations in Alberta Yukon and NT. It provides financial and other support for outreach programs ofcongregations as well as counsel and guidance to about 200 pastors through the Bishop of the Synod.…

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2
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church Calgary

Public worship services bible studies religious education outreach ministries.

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3
Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Forest Lawn Calgary

Worship-sunday school-music-studies-breakfast-counselling-food bank-prayer shawl-knitting-youth & young adults-summer camp.

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4
Emmaus Lutheran Church Edmonton

To be a caring spiritually growing and family oriented congregation promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ through discipleship contemporary worship and community service.

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5
Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations/L'associationcanadienne Des CongrÉGations LuthÉRiennes

The Association is a national church body comprised of Canadian member congregations and individuals. The Association unites serves equips encourages and empowers congregations and individuals who share a common belief. The association…

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6
Peace Lutheran Church of Calgary

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…

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7
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lemberg Saskatchewan

We support the programs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada by working serving witnessing and learning. Our congregation of baptized members proclaim the word of God and minister to each other and the community.

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8
Lutheran Church of the Cross

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

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9
Lutheran East District

Provide evangelical mission support to lutheran church-canada and its member congregations

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10
Bethesda Lutheran Church

Provide programs for teaching the bible and doctrines of the evangelical lutheran church in canada ( elcic)

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11
Living Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church

To work in church and community by teaching and preaching god's word and administering holy sacrament according to confessional and standard evangelical lutheran church. fostering christian fellowship in church and community by divine…

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12
Institute of Lutheran Theology Canada Society

Provide theological education to canadian students via the institute of lutheran theology

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Triune Education and Benevolent Society of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Redcliff Action Society for Youth. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 26 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA — C$1,113,359 over 8y, 45% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$987,321 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetLUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — C$808,361 over 8y, 18% of budgetFIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA — C$120,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetON EAGLE'S WINGS ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC./LES MINISTERES O — C$23,705 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetTRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$21,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetLutheran Triune Educational and Benevolent Society of Calgar — C$17,776 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE HASTINGS LAKE LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP ASSOCIATION — C$14,970 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE — C$12,770 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLCBI HIGH SCHOOL — C$8,716 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN INSTITUTIONAL MINISTRY EDMONTON — C$8,550 over 4y, 14% of budgetLakeland Lutheran Church — C$8,414 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMULHURST CAMP — C$3,470 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetRedcliff Action Society for Youth — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLORD OF GLORY LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$2,455 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCanadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc. — C$1,836 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSylvan Lake Lutheran Bible Camp — C$1,490 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS — C$875 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEDMONTON FOOD BANK — C$840 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHosanna Lutheran Church at Luther Place — C$350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SAMARITAN'S PURSE - CANADA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES — C$99 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Society — C$35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society — C$10 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Lutheran Triune Educa…Bawlf Lutheran ChurchTrinity Evangelical L…Holy Spirit Lutheran …Saskatchewan Synod E…Zion Lutheran ChurchAmisk-Park Lutheran C…Faith Evangelical Lut…St. Paul's Lutheran C…Glory Lutheran Church…The Lutheran Church o…Hosanna Lutheran Chur…
Lutheran Triune Education and Benevolent Society of CalgaryAB10.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lutheran Triune Education and Benevolent Society of Calgary · Bawlf Lutheran Church · Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church · Holy Spirit Lutheran Church · Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc. · Zion Lutheran Church · Amisk-Park Lutheran Church · Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sundre · St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Olds · Glory Lutheran Church Sherwood Park · The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd of Red Deer · Hosanna Lutheran Church at Luther Place

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 26 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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 130559404:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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