Banff, AB · Charitable organization
Banffs Full Gospel Church
Church programs - weekly worship and teaching; Pastoral care; Bible studies and meditation; Youth activities; counselling and support; weddings; funerals
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Youth Unlimited | C$4,200 |
| Focus on the Family | C$1,500 |
| Banff Food Bank | C$1,200 |
| Small Church Connections | C$900 |
| Voice of the Martyrs | C$600 |
| International Christian Embassy Jerusalem | C$600 |
| Our Daily Bread Ministries | C$500 |
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 +80% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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
- YUYouth Unlimited8× · 2017–2024 · C$25k · revenue +87%
- BFBanff Food Bank8× · 2017–2024 · C$10k · revenue +80%
- FOFocus on the Family8× · 2017–2024 · C$6k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- CDCalgary Dream Centregraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue +26%
- ICInternational Christian Embassy Jerusalemgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$600 · revenue +66%
- CCCAUSE Canadaone grant, 2017 · C$600 · revenue -46%
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.
Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…
Advance religion by distributing bibles and other christian materials to persecuted christians throughout the world where these resources are not readily available; provide leadership training and assistance to pastors church leaders and…
1. we conduct seminars and workshops across canada 2. we provide spiritual support and encouragement to individuals and married couples. 3. we distribute materials (books and dvds) as spiritual growth resources to individuals and churches.…
Cbm is a global mission organization committed to sharing god's love through word and deed. we believe that god brings healing to a broken world through local churches. with over 150 years of experience we have seen that words and deeds…
1. proclaiming the gospel of jesus christ in canada and abroad and training and preparing workers for service. 2. operating ministries normal to a local church in various communities and ordaining individuals for ministry. 3. conducting…
1. Providing spiritual leadership and oversight for affiliated churches. 2. Providing training for leaders and workers in affiliated churches. 3. Conducting programs for evangelism and church expansion with joint ministry partners.
International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…
We exist to preach and advance the teachings of the Christian faith and the religious tenets doctrines and observances by providing consultation instructional material curriculum development and best practices; and to propagate the…
1. Providing ongoing support to pastors and traveling ministers in every phase of ministry 2. Conducting provincial and regional meetings for pastoral/leadership training. 3. Supporting accredited bible training centers worldwide to train…
Provide leadership conferences training and church planting support in developing countries. Also to provide spiritual life and evangelism conferences in Canada as well as in first nations church community
Development production and distribution of educational resources specifically for those who know little or nothing about the Bible but who want to know more. Training (through seminars conducted in homes churches and schools) of…
Christian philanthropic work that provides: - Evangelism and discipleship strategies and resources for churches and individuals - Support for children in various nations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Voice of the Martyrs Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Banff Food Bank Society. 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 Youth Unlimited ↗
- Who funds Banff Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Focus on the Family ↗
- Who funds Voice of the Martyrs ↗
- Who funds Calgary Dream Centre ↗
- Who funds Small Church Connections ↗
- Who funds International Christian Embassy Jerusalem ↗
- Who funds CAUSE Canada ↗
- Who funds Our Daily Bread Ministries ↗
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: PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.