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Kitchener, ON · Public foundation

Charitus

Elfec manages investments and endowment funds and distributes the resulting investment income to litheran judicatories congregations agencies and ministries.

C$2.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
75
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 75 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k56 grants · C$146k
  • C$10k–50k16 grants · C$295k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$174k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.8M
C$3,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$99M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN SYNOD OF EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHC$1,829,053
SYLVAIN LAKE LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMPC$122,619
ST GEORGE'S LETHERAN CHURCHC$51,095
CANADIAN LUTHERAIN WORLD RELIEFC$42,468
MOUNT ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OFC$38,279
EVANGELICAL LUTHER CHURCH IN CANADAC$28,199
TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHC$23,874
TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF NEWC$23,583
HOLY CROSS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHC$20,198
TRINITY LUTHERAN HAMILTONC$15,402
CALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATIONC$14,000
WATERLOO LUTHERAN SEMINARYC$13,940
NEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH INCC$12,478
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHC$11,867
ST. MARK'S ANGELICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH OF MIDLANDC$11,200
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$11M
Alberta
C$692k
Manitoba
C$135k
British Columbia
C$61k
Saskatchewan
C$41k
New Brunswick
C$35k
Nova Scotia
C$34k
Quebec
C$3k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12M · 57 repeat orgsC$221k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
35

Total granted

C$12M
C$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-1%

Still filing today

96%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$103k 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

  • WL
    Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +71%
  • SL
    SYLVAN LAKE LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$515k · revenue +27%
  • TE
    TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF NEW HAMBURG
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$185k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$31k · revenue +5%
  • TE
    TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · C$13k · revenue -13%
  • RL
    RESURRECTION LUTHERAN CHURCH SASKATOON
    one grant, 2023 · C$12k · revenue -2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Trinity Lutheran Church

We hold worship services weekly visit those in the hospital and long-term care facilities conduct baptisms weddings funerals and memorial services. We financially support local charitable organizations for the homeless and underprivileged…

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2
Trinity Lutheran Church

Conduct weekly religous services in accordance with lutheran church canada

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3
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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4
Trinity Lutheran Church

Church Organization providing worship and spiritual support to members of the congregation

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5
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lemberg Saskatchewan

We support the programs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada by working serving witnessing and learning. Our congregation of baptized members proclaim the word of God and minister to each other and the community.

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6
Trinity Lutheran Church

Conduct weekly worship services proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Share the Love of the Lord through weekly Sunday School for all ages. Minister to the elderly through mid-week study and fellowship. Extended pastoral care to the sick…

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7
Hope Lutheran Church

we hold worship services weekly - we offer worship services on special occasions - we offer pastoral care - we hold funeral services - we conduct Sunday school and adult religious education programs - we donate to denominational…

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8
Christ-Trinity Lutheran Church

We participate in the ongoing programs of the evangelical lutheran church in canada through preaching god's word and spiritual instruction for children youth and adults. we have sunday weekday and other services as well as sunday school…

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9
Christ Lutheran Church

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

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10
Christ Lutheran Church Langenburg
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11
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church

We offer regular Christian worship services engage in several social outreach/service initiatives to the local and wider communities provide various Christian learning opportunities for all ages and support religious programming with other…

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12
St Luke's Lutheran Church

Worship services pastoral care outreach ministries

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Alberta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

119 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. 119 of the 121 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
117/119
Grantees still filing
52/119
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 budgetEASTERN SYNOD OF EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$8,558,935 over 8y, 44% of budgetWaterloo Lutheran Seminary — C$1,003,031 over 8y, 11% of budgetSYLVAN LAKE LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP — C$515,497 over 3y, 22% of budgetST. GEORGE'S LETHERAN CHURCH — C$243,790 over 3y, 45% of budgetMount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waterloo — C$213,728 over 8y, 10% of budgetTRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF NEW HAMBURG — C$185,018 over 8y, 13% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAIN WORLD RELIEF — C$135,335 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetST. JOHN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$106,035 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetTO GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$105,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN WIARTON — C$74,878 over 7y, 35% of budgetST. JAMES EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$62,711 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$61,039 over 5y, 26% of budgetHOLY CROSS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$49,714 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetFAITH LUTHERAN CHURCH - PORT ELGIN — C$45,587 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetTRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$43,189 over 5y, 8.6% of budgetTRINITY LUTHERAN HAMILTON — C$42,936 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY-COMMUNITY FAMILY SERVICES CAMBRIDGE — C$38,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMartin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church — C$33,154 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetHoly Cross Lutheran Church — C$32,729 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$31,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVANGELICAL LUTHER CHURCH IN CANADA — C$28,199 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAINT LUKE'S PLACE — C$27,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLISAARD AND INNISFREE HOSPICE — C$27,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAMBRIDGE SELF HELP FOOD BANK — C$27,200 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$26,752 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetFAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$21,068 over 3y, 30% of budgetK W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION KITCHENER — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST. MARK'S ANGELICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH OF MIDLAND — C$17,096 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetST PAUL'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH ELLERSLIE — C$16,875 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetWOMEN'S CRISIS SERVICES OF WATERLOO REGION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMS CANADA SP CANADA — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHRIST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$14,012 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$13,381 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetREDEEMER EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$12,746 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetNEW HOPE LUTHERAN CHURCH INC — C$12,478 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetRESURRECTION LUTHERAN CHURCH SASKATOON — C$11,536 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY WATERLOO REGION INC — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAITH LUTHERAN BRANTFORD — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTransfiguration Lutheran Church — C$9,504 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$9,035 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetCANADIAN FOOD GRAINS BANK ASSOCIATION — C$9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$8,738 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetALL SAINTS LUTHERAN ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$8,056 over 2y, 1.6% 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.

Eastern Synod of the …Evangelical Lutheran …British Columbia Syno…Saskatchewan Synod E…Lutheran Triune Educa…Waterloo Region Commu…The Lutheran Church o…Lutheran Church of Ou…Grace Evangelical Lut…Trinity Evangelical L…Alberta Synod Evangel…Trillium United Church
Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Luthern Church in Canada / Synode de L'Est de L'Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne Au CanadaON31.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Luthern Church in Canada / Synode de L'Est de L'Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne Au Canada · Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · British Columbia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc. · Lutheran Triune Education and Benevolent Society of Calgary · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd of Red Deer · Lutheran Church of Our Saviour · Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church (Oakville) · Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church · Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · Trillium United 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 121 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 public foundation under foundations advancing religion.

Source object 830771127:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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