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Kitchener, ON · Charitable organization

Bethel Lutheran Church

As a regular congregation the purpose of the charity is to serve its members by providing for their spiritual needs through the preaching of the word of god administration of the sacraments of the christian church fostering christian fellowship and the biblical instruction to children youth and adults and to spread the kingdom of god…

C$41k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k12 grants · C$28k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$14k
C$2,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IELB - LUTHERAN EVANG. CHURCHC$13,765
LUTHERAN CHURCH CANADAC$8,455
FOOD FOR KIDSC$4,250
FIRST LUTHERAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMYC$3,000
ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCHC$3,000
NUTRITION FOR LEARNINGC$2,500
CLWRC$2,000
ST. MARY'S PARISHC$2,000
HAITI LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETYC$500
RAY OF HOPEC$500
ONEROOFC$500
DAYS FOR GIRLSC$500
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN THEOLOGIAL SEMINARYC$500
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$118k · 9 repeat orgsC$89k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +93% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

C$118k
C$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+93%
+49%

Still filing today

56%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$29k 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

  • LC
    Lutheran Church Canada - East District
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$83k · revenue +95%
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$12k · revenue +51%
  • SM
    ST. MARY'S PARISH
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$3k · revenue +619%

Funded once

  • LC
    Lutheran Church Canada - East District
    one grant, 2018 · C$18k
  • LC
    LUTHERAN CHURCH CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$17k
  • TW
    The Working Centregraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +234%

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
Waterloo Lutheran Seminary

Waterloo lutheran seminary (wls) is accredited by the association of theological schools an international accrediting body. its degree programs are accredited buy the ontario council of graduate studies. wls offers an undergraduate degree…

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3
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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4
Lutheran East District

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

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5
The K-W Foundation for Lutheran Education

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

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6
Lutheran Homes Kitchener-Waterloo

Provide and operate non-profit residential accommodation and incidental facilities there to exclusive for: 1) person with low income 2) senior citizen of low/modest income and who have varying degree of special needs 3) disabled person of…

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7
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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8
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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9
Our Savior Lutheran Church

Conduct weekly and special mid-week worship serivces. provide christian teaching to children in weekly sunday school programs contribute funds to lutheran church canada for world mission activities training of new clergy world relief…

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10
St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church Kitchener

1.) Public Sunday worship broadcasting Sunday worship continued via CTV 2.) We offered in person telephone and virtual pastoral care 3.) Our religious education and learning programs continued virtually on-line and choral scholarships 4.)…

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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
Lutheran Laymen's League of Canada

The love and teachings of jesus christ is proclaimed using various media including: radio internet social media and print. training and encouragement in evangelism and stewardship are provided to members of local churches and other…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Church-Canada and the most unlike its peers is Canadahelps Canadon. 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

17 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. 17 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLutheran Church Canada - East District — C$82,848 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Working Centre — C$9,592 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAY OF HOPE — C$6,962 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR KIDS — C$4,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFIRST LUTHERAN CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST. MARY'S PARISH — C$2,550 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNUTRITION FOR LEARNING — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConcordia Lutheran Theological Seminary — C$2,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLeprosy Relief Canada — C$1,280 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHAITI LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetONEROOF — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAYS FOR GIRLS — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAY OF HOPE — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$320 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSamaritan's Purse — C$20 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…Faith Lutheran Church…Emmanuel United ChurchThe Roman Catholic Ep…Abundance CanadaMy Tribute Gift Found…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …United Way East Ontar…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON8.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener) · Emmanuel United Church · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · Abundance Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 25 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 131978355:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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