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New Westminster, BC · Charitable organization

British Columbia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The synod co-ordinates with the national church elcic on church affairs.

C$280k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$105k
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$10k6 grants · C$33k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$83k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$165k
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADAC$105,000
LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYC$60,000
SYNOD OF ALBERTA & THE TERRITORIESC$25,000
LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE CROSS VICTORIAC$25,000
CHRIST THE KING LUTHERAN CHURCH SURREYC$12,500
OUR SAVIOUR'S LUTHERAN CHURCHC$10,000
HILLS OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCHC$10,000
TRINITY ANGLICAN LUTHERAN CHURCHC$8,000
ASCENSION LUTHERAN CHURCHC$7,310
ST.PAUL SHARED MINISTRY CLEARWATERC$6,500
REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCHC$4,800
CHRIST CHILLIWACKC$4,147
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 40 repeat orgsC$173k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
7

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-21%

Still filing today

98%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$33k 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

  • EL
    EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$665k · revenue +39%
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$326k · revenue +56%
  • SU
    Surrey Urban Mission Society
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$78k · revenue ×13

Funded once

  • SP
    ST. PAUL'S LUTHERN
    one grant, 2022 · C$50k · revenue -24% · 34% of their budget
  • KO
    KING OF LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue +25%
  • FL
    FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue -21%

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
Christ Lutheran Church

Weekly Sunday Services Sunday School Baptism and ELW Bible Studies confirmation classes

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2
Trinity Lutheran Church

Church Services Sunday school Bible Study

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3
Salem Lutheran Church

Weekly worship services

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4
Trinity Lutheran Church

Conduct weekly religous services in accordance with lutheran church canada

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5
Living Word Lutheran Church

Worship preaching evangelism delivery of sacraments asministration & leadership

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6
Green Valley Lutheran Church

Church services weddings funerals baptisms

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7
Christ Lutheran Church

Weekly Worship Services Weddings Baptisms Funeral Services Confirmation of Faith Classes Sunday School Lessons etc. Pastoral Care - ministry to men women children and families. Pre-Marital Council Bible Study visitation to shut-ins and…

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8
Hope Lutheran Church

Worship services.

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9
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

Weekly divine worship services

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10
St Pauls Lutheran Church

Weekly worship services

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11
Grace Lutheran Church

To instruct in and provide Christian Teaching according to the Holy Bible; conduct Worship Services Weddings Baptisms Funerals Sunday School Vacation Bible School and Community Outreach. Note: During the Pandemic these activities were…

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12
Grace Lutheran Church Okotoks

We provide sunday church services weekly bible study children ministry prayer meetings outreach activities to our local community and christian ministries in and around okotoks

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kelowna and the most unlike its peers is University of Victoria. 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

49 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
28/49
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 budgetEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA — C$665,019 over 8y, 23% of budgetLUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — C$456,929 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$326,404 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSurrey Urban Mission Society — C$77,898 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetOUR SAVIOUR'S LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$70,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE CROSS VICTORIA — C$65,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetST. PAUL'S LUTHERN — C$50,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetHILLS OF PEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$45,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$38,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHRIST THE KING LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$32,500 over 2y, 20% of budgetASCENSION LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$30,810 over 4y, 13% of budgetMOUNT OLIVE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$30,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$30,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetST. PAUL SHARED MINISTRY — C$26,500 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetHOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$25,800 over 2y, 12% of budgetSYNOD OF ALBERTA & THE TERRITORIES — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$24,800 over 2y, 11% of budgetCHRIST LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$24,147 over 2y, 11% of budgetGRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$23,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetDUNBAR EVANGELICAL LUTHERN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetEMMAUS LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetKING OF LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCHRIST EVANGELICAL LUTHERN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetTRINITY ANGELICAN & LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetOUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetMATSQUI EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetLIVING FAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetGRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetFAITH LUTHERAN — C$20,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetLORD OF LIFE (MISSION) — C$20,000 over 2y, 40% of budgetFIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGRACE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetOAKRIDGE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetBENEDICTION LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetFAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMOUNT ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetOUR REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetGLORIA DEI LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetPEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetPEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetDEO LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetSPIRIT OF LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetFAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetST. MARK'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetTRINITY ANGLICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$8,000 over 1y, 15% 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.

CharitusEvangelical Lutheran …Vancity Community Fou…United Way British Co…Bc Government Employe…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadahelps CanadonUnited Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…
CharitusON17× affinity13 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charitus · Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · Vancity Community Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadahelps Canadon · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 49 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 106779184:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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