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Lacombe, AB · Charitable organization

Bethel Christian Reformed Church

Sunday worship Bible studies GEMS Cadets Tuesday Night Youth Friendship Circle of Friends (free community supper on Thursdays) Stepping Stones Fuenta de Vida

C$132k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$32k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k30 grants · C$73k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$59k
C$2,824
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRCNAC$31,804
World RenewC$14,268
Classis Alberta NorthC$12,722
Central Alberta Pregnancy Care CentreC$6,014
Redeemer UniversityC$5,000
English Language Institute in China SocietyC$4,754
LCSC$4,495
Canadian Foodgrains BankC$4,375
Central Alberta Youth Unlimited/YFCC$4,315
Shalom Counselling CentreC$3,578
Lacombe Community Food BankC$3,547
RehobothC$3,158
Mustard SeedC$3,146
CACHSC$3,110
Resonate Global MissionC$2,996
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.3M · 38 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
4

Total granted

C$1.3M
C$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+10%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • WR
    WORLD RENEW
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$392k · revenue +1%
  • C
    CRCNA
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$100k · revenue +140%
  • LC
    LACOMBE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$56k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • EN
    EVERY NATIONS CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue +10%
  • CA
    CENTRAL ALBERTA WOMEN'S SHELTER
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue -23%
  • C
    CSS
    one grant, 2023 · C$500 · revenue +2%

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.

1
Christian Reformed World Missions of Canada

Christian Reformed World Missions is the international evangelism ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. Activities include evangelism, discipleship, and missions programs around the world.

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2
Caleb Ministries Association of Alberta

We engage in and promote Christian mission work in Canada and in foreign countries -We engage in humanitarian mission work in foreign countries including relief of poverty medical relief and operation of a number of daycare facilities. -We…

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3
Equip Leadership Canada

A) to provide personnel and resources for christian organizations and ministries; and b) to provide training and materials to christian leaders and individuals involved in evanglism and christian ministry worldwide

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4
International Christian Ministries

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…

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5
Bic Canada - Global

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…

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6
Youth With a Mission Society

Youth With a Mission Society (Alberta) promotes the gospel of Jesus Christ in Canada and abroad by providing opportunities to learn pray give and go for the cause of world missions. Current programs include; a 20 week discipleship training…

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7
Christian Education Ministries International

To promote Christian Education world-wide in order to help make disciples of Jesus Christ and to educate the church in North America about cultures by creating opportunities for them to interact to actively participate in meeting people's…

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8
Alberta Bible College

Alberta bible college is a post secondary educational institution awarding four-year degrees two-year diplomas and one-year certificates in christian ministries. a two-year degree completion program in christian leadership or counselling…

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9
Canadian Baptist Ministries

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…

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10
Training Leaders International Canada

To provide training and teaching to Christian church leaders around the world.

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11
Seed International Mission of Canada (Seed Canada)

Missionary training -bible studies

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12
Christian Reformed Board of Home Missions of Canada

Christian Reformed Home Missions is the evangelism ministry of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. Activities include support of existing churches, new church expansion, post-secondary campus ministry, and small gruop ministry.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christian Reformed Church in North America-Canada Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The King's University. 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

40 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. 40 of the 44 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
30/40
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORLD RENEW — C$391,917 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetClassis Alberta North — C$103,427 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetCRCNA — C$99,966 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLACOMBE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SO — C$55,699 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetEnglish Language Institute in China Society — C$49,880 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRAL ALTA PRENANCY CARE CENTRE — C$39,003 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCENTRAL ALBERTA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — C$34,701 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetThe Kings University College — C$34,620 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNAIM — C$27,172 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Alberta Youth Unlimited/YFC — C$26,628 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLACOMBE FOOD BANK — C$22,951 over 5y, 68% of budgetCANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK ASSOCIATION INC. — C$22,684 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED — C$21,464 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDYNAMIC YOUTH MINISTRIES — C$19,872 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetShalom Counselling Centre — C$17,605 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetREDEEMER UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetReFrame Ministries — C$14,707 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRED DEER & DISTRICT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$12,805 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetREHOBOTH CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — C$12,078 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDIACONAL MINISTRIES OF CANADA — C$12,030 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWycliffe Bible Translators — C$10,182 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetShareWord Global — C$9,117 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BIBLE LEAGUE — C$8,246 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse — C$6,459 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRehoboth — C$4,602 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEdmonton Native Healing Centre — C$4,417 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHope and Healing International — C$4,254 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTeen Challenge — C$3,141 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVolunteer Link — C$3,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetSEAFARES MINISTRY — C$2,718 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE PRISON MINISTRIES — C$2,273 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFirst Christian Reformed Church — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDU DEO MINISTRIES — C$1,635 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN DOORS OPERATION MANNA — C$1,586 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY NATIONS CHURCH — C$1,181 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ALBERTA WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$1,104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWoody Nook CRC — C$728 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCSS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEbenezer CRC — C$438 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEVERY NATION VANCOUVER — C$250 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.

  • Who funds WORLD RENEW ↗
  • Who funds Classis Alberta North ↗
  • Who funds CRCNA ↗
  • Who funds LACOMBE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SO ↗
  • Who funds English Language Institute in China Society ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ALTA PRENANCY CARE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ALBERTA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds The Kings University College ↗
  • Who funds NAIM ↗
  • Who funds Central Alberta Youth Unlimited/YFC ↗
  • Who funds LACOMBE FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FOODGRAINS BANK ASSOCIATION INC. ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED ↗
  • Who funds DYNAMIC YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds Shalom Counselling Centre ↗
  • Who funds REDEEMER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ReFrame Ministries ↗
  • Who funds RED DEER & DISTRICT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds REHOBOTH CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds DIACONAL MINISTRIES OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Wycliffe Bible Translators ↗
  • Who funds ShareWord Global ↗
  • Who funds THE BIBLE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Samaritan's Purse ↗
  • Who funds Rehoboth ↗
  • Who funds Edmonton Native Healing Centre ↗
  • Who funds Hope and Healing International ↗
  • Who funds Teen Challenge ↗
  • Who funds Volunteer Link ↗
  • Who funds SEAFARES MINISTRY ↗
  • Who funds NEW LIFE PRISON MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds First Christian Reformed Church ↗
  • Who funds EDU DEO MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds OPEN DOORS OPERATION MANNA ↗
  • Who funds EVERY NATIONS CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL ALBERTA WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗

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.

Woody Nook Christian …New Life Fellowship C…Wolf Creek Community …Sonrise Christian Ref…Christian Stewardship…First Christian Refor…Redeemer United Refor…Covenant Christian Re…Burdett Christian Ref…First Christian Refor…First Christian Refor…Canadian National Chr…
Woody Nook Christian Reformed ChurchAB12.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Woody Nook Christian Reformed Church · New Life Fellowship Christian Reformed Church Religious Soci · Wolf Creek Community Church a Christian Reformed Congregation · Sonrise Christian Reformed Church · Christian Stewardship Services · First Christian Reformed Church · Redeemer United Reformed Church · Covenant Christian Reformed Church of Edmonton · Burdett Christian Reformed Church · First Christian Reformed Church of Rocky Mountain House · First Christian Reformed Church of Edmonton · Canadian National Christian Foundation

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 44 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 106788813:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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