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Sherwood Park, AB · Charitable organization

Bethel Lutheran Church

Provide christian pastoral care to adherents & community.

C$81k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$27k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$54k
C$7,061
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAMP (LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARYS PILOTS INC)C$28,389
THE ROCK INNER CITY SOCIETYC$14,169
LUTHERAN CHURCH CANADAC$11,257
THE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATIONC$8,653
CIAM BROADCASTING MEDIAC$7,061
CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFC$4,723
LUTHERAN WOMEN'S MISSIONARY LEAGUEC$3,122
CAF CANADAC$3,000
WORLD VISIONC$294
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$817k · 20 repeat orgsC$158k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
11

Total granted

C$817k
C$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
-3%

Still filing today

90%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$35k 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

  • JA
    JALIA AFRICA FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$327k · revenue +61% · 86% of their budget
  • TG
    THE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$126k · revenue +112%
  • L(
    LAMP (LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARYS PILOTS INC)
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$99k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • JA
    JALIA AFRICA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$80k
  • JA
    Jalia Africa Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$30k
  • C
    CLWR
    one grant, 2017 · C$6k

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
Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries

Receipt of various planned charitable gifts in favour of the organization from donors. the organization establishes and administers giving programs to encourage direct gifts bequests endowments and legacies to the organization. realized…

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2
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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3
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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4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of Canada Inc.

Provide financial support in establishing new churches provide scholarships to international and canadian students for religious instruction provide financial support for training of new ministers and international missionaries provide…

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5
Institute of Lutheran Theology Canada Society

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

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6
Lutheran East District

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

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7
Lutheran Council in Canada

Lutheran council in canada is an agency of the evangelical lutheran church in canada and lutheran church-canada with responsibility for co-ordinating shared ministry opportunity in canada for chaplaincy services in armed forces and…

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8
Lutheran Theological Seminary

Lutheran theological seminary educates pastors students and lay leaders of the evangelical lutheran church in canada. this education leads to the following degrees and certificates: doctor of ministry for those already ordained for…

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9
The K-W Foundation for Lutheran Education

Supporting canadian - based charitable organizations carrying on lutheran educational work.

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10
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

At the National Office of the ELCIC we develop policies and standards for rostered leaders and worship public policies for the church in society and resources for stewardship and worship. We work in partnership with Lutheran and ecumenical…

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11
Luther College Regina

Luther college operates an independent boarding/day school that provides education for students from grade 9 to 12 following the saskatchewan school curriculum as well as the international baccalaureate program. luther college also…

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12
Latin America Mission (Canada) Inc.

Maintained various mission ministries including church planting evangelism child care theological education food distribution and disaster relief efforts working primarily in bolivia brazil columbia costa rica guatemala honduras nicaragua…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Women's Missionary League - Canada Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jalia Africa Foundation. 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

29 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. 29 of the 35 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
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 budgetJALIA AFRICA FOUNDATION — C$327,209 over 5y, 86% of budgetTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$126,075 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLAMP (LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARYS PILOTS INC) — C$98,689 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetThe Rock Inner City Society — C$86,417 over 7y, 10% of budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH CANADA — C$62,491 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCIAM BROADCASTING — C$23,861 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCLWR — C$21,229 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY — C$15,035 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE — C$13,623 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLUTHERAN WOMEN'S MISSIONARY LEAGUE — C$10,111 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCIAM BROADCASTING MEDIA — C$7,061 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — C$5,920 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Church-Canada. ABC District — C$4,025 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCMHA-ED — C$3,795 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION — C$3,780 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATHCONE CHRISTMAS BUREAU — C$3,522 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$3,188 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAF CANADA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATHCONA SHELTER SOCIETY — C$1,505 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCAI A CONNECTION — C$700 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLUTHERAN HOSPITAL MINISTRY — C$350 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLIME — C$300 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY — C$250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Christmas Bureau of Edmonton — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlankets for Canada Society — C$50 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROBIN HOOD ASSOCIATION — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MISSION — C$40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLLL — C$40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia University of Edmonton — C$25 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 Church - Can…Immanuel Lutheran Chu…Foothills Lutheran Ch…Hope Lutheran Church …Concordia Lutheran Ch…Immanuel Lutheran Chu…St Peter's Lutheran C…Bethlehem Lutheran Ch…All Saints Lutheran C…Zion Evangelical Luth…Emmaus Lutheran ChurchGrace Lutheran Church
Lutheran Church - Canada Financial MinistriesMB13.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries · Immanuel Lutheran Church · Foothills Lutheran Church of Calgary · Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam · Concordia Lutheran Church of Edmonton Alberta · Immanuel Lutheran Church · St Peter's Lutheran Church · Bethlehem Lutheran Church · All Saints Lutheran Church · Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church · Emmaus Lutheran Church · Grace Lutheran Church

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 35 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 2024-06-30, 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 106789100:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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