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Okotoks, AB · Charitable organization

Chinook Winds Region - The United Church of Canada

The chinook winds regional council [cwrc] provides advisory fiscal and personnel support to congregations related ministries clergy and lay members of the united church of canada in the province of alberta extending from south of highway 13 in alberta to the canada-united states border.

C$204k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$135k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$59k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$135k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OGDEN UNITED CHURCHC$135,000
FISH CREEK UNITED CHURCHC$49,000
ECUMENICAL CAMPUS MINISTRYC$10,000
RED DEER PRESBYTERY CAMPS SOCIETYC$5,040
MCCLURE UNITEDC$3,000
WATERTON PARK UNITED CHURCHC$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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 16 repeat orgsC$127k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
17

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+2%

Still filing today

81%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SV
    SYMONS VALLEY UNITED CHURCH
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$85k · revenue +25%
  • CU
    CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$50k · revenue +41%
  • MH
    MEDICINE HAT ECUMENICAL CAMPUS MINISTRY
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$26k · revenue +534%

Funded once

  • CC
    CANYON CHURCH CAMP ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$36k
  • S
    SYMONS
    one grant, 2019 · C$23k
  • OU
    OGDEN UNITED CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k

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
Knox United Church

Weekly worship

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2
Wyoming United Church

Weekly worship services in person and available on-line as a recording. Provide pastoral care. Donate funds to local food bank and mission funds.

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3
Maple Creek United Church

Weekly church services funeral services as needed support for members and adherants throughout year. bible study sessions weekly coffee support groups

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4
Mcclure United Church
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5
Foam Lake United Church

weekly worship services pastoral care outreach weddings funerals baptism fundraising

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6
Trinity United Church

Worship Services, Bible Study Groups and Discussion Groups, Pastoral Care

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7
Trinity United Church

Sunday worship

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8
Knox United Church
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9
Knox United Church
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10
Calvin United Church

Virtual and in person weekly church services

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11
Roseneath United Church

Church services -- in person via Zoom and You Tube

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12
Glasgow United Church

We hold worship services weekly.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Symons Valley United Church and the most unlike its peers is Calgary Kasota Camp 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

25 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. 25 of the 33 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/25
Grantees still filing
13/25
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$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOGDEN UNITED CHURCH — C$230,536 over 4y, 33% of budgetUNITED/PRESBYTERIAN CAMPUS MINISTRY COMMITTEE — C$230,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetST. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH — C$228,900 over 4y, 18% of budgetFISH CREEK UNITED CHURCH — C$132,800 over 2y, 10% of budgetSYMONS VALLEY UNITED CHURCH — C$85,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetRED DEER PRESBYTERY CAMPS SOCIETY — C$71,040 over 6y, 12% of budgetECUMENICAL CAMPUS MINISTRY — C$67,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetCENTRAL UNITED CHURCH — C$50,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetMCCLURE UNITED — C$32,200 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetKNOX UNITED CHURCH — C$30,716 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMEDICINE HAT ECUMENICAL CAMPUS MINISTRY — C$26,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetRALPH CONNOR MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWATERTON PARK UNITED CHURCH — C$14,500 over 6y, 23% of budgetBAR HARBOUR CAMP — C$14,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetMCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCALGARY KASOTA CAMP SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHILLHURST UNITED CHURCH — C$5,060 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRED DEER LAKE UNITED CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFORT MACLEOD-GRANUM PASTORAL CHARGE — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetRAYMOND UNITED CHURCH — C$2,500 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetST. ANDREW'S UNITED CHURCH — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMCKILLOP UNITED CHURCH — C$2,080 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOKOTOKS UNITED CHURCH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWOODCLIFF UNITED CHURCH — C$1,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOREST LAWN UNITED CHURCH — C$1,060 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

The United Church of …The United Church of …The Calgary FoundationNorthern Spirit Regio…United Way of Calgary…BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps CanadonCanadian Online Givin…
The United Church of CanadaON19.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Church of Canada · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du Canada · The Calgary Foundation · Northern Spirit Regional Council - the United Church of Canada · United Way of Calgary and Area · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon · 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 33 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 108152620:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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