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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

Bethlehem Lutheran Church

We hold worship services weekly.

C$666k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$526k
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$10k5 grants · C$26k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$114k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$526k
C$14,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADAC$526,000
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARYC$27,000
CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFC$25,000
LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTSC$20,000
B.C. MISSION BOAT SOCIETYC$15,000
CHRISTIAN ADVOCACY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVERC$14,000
WAGNER HILLS LFARM SOCIETYC$13,000
HOPE LUTHERAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLC$9,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$7,500
LUTHERAN LAYMEN'S LEAGUEC$5,000
JUSTICE CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMSC$2,500
LUTHERANS FOR LIFEC$2,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.5M · 14 repeat orgsC$269k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

C$2.5M
C$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$19k 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 CANADA FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$1.4M · revenue +51% · 28% of their budget
  • LC
    LUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$934k · revenue +95%
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$43k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • SM
    ST MATTHIAS & ST LUKE CHURCH ANIC
    one grant, 2020 · C$200k · revenue -33% · 36% of their budget
  • SM
    ST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND ANGLICAN CHURCHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$46k · revenue +50%
  • LW
    LUTHERAN WOMEN'S MISSIONARY LEAGUE
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k

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
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
Lutheran East District

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

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3
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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4
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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5
British Columbia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The synod co-ordinates with the national church elcic on church affairs. the synod operates a synod administration centre supporting the regular functions of the evangelical lutheran church in bc. the synod also oversees congregations…

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6
Lutheran Church - Canada Central District

Congregational encouragement and support pastor and deacon support mission development synodical support education.

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7
Institute of Lutheran Theology Canada Society

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

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8
Vancouver Chinese Lutheran Church

Vancouver chinese lutheran church operates a community church in burnaby british columbia that provides christian fellowship and worship services to the community.

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9
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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10
First Lutheran Church of Vancouver British Columbia

We held in-person and online worship services weekly. we give pastoral care. we provide sunday school conformation and youth ministries. we work in the community to teach bible precepts. we offer compassionats love comfort and service to…

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Church-Canada and the most unlike its peers is Wagner Hills Farm Society. 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

19 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. 19 of the 23 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUTHERAN CANADA FOUNDATION — C$1,360,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADA — C$933,800 over 8y, 12% of budgetST MATTHIAS & ST LUKE CHURCH ANIC — C$200,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$46,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$42,510 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY — C$35,177 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetLUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS — C$27,600 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetB.C. MISSION BOAT SOCIETY — C$22,750 over 7y, 48% of budgetWAGNER HILLS LFARM SOCIETY — C$20,850 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE LUTHERAN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$16,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN ADVOCACY SOCIETY OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$14,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLUTHERAN LAYMEN'S LEAGUE — C$12,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$12,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY — C$7,600 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetLUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS — C$6,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLutheran Church-Canada, Alberta-British Columbia District — C$5,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE CANADA — C$3,640 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALNUT GROVE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$110 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…Faith Lutheran ChurchLutheran Church-CanadaFaith Evangelical Lut…Trinity Lutheran Chur…Immanuel Lutheran Chu…Foothills Lutheran Ch…Hope Lutheran Church …Concordia Lutheran Ch…Mount Calvary Luthera…Hope Evangelical Luth…St Paul Luthern Churc…
Lutheran Church - Canada Financial MinistriesMB11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries · Faith Lutheran Church · Lutheran Church-Canada · Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church of Surrey B.C. · Trinity Lutheran Church Richmond · Immanuel Lutheran Church · Foothills Lutheran Church of Calgary · Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam · Concordia Lutheran Church of Edmonton Alberta · Mount Calvary Lutheran Church of Red Deer Alberta · Hope Evangelical Lutheran Church of Victoria · St Paul Luthern Church of Medicine Hat Alberta

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 23 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 118807015:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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