Kelowna, BC · Charitable organization
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kelowna
Church worship and education in our community in kelowna bc through regular sunday servcies adult and youth education classes bible studies and pastoral care -food and material assistance to the needy in the community -assistance to provincal and national mission projects through the evangelical lutheran church in canada
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BC SYNOD | C$8,470 |
| CANADA LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | C$7,800 |
| CENTRAL OKANAGAN FOODBANK | C$595 |
| KELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION SOCIETY | C$400 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- CLCANADA LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF8× · 2017–2024 · C$86k · revenue +56%
- BSBC SYNOD7× · 2017–2023 · C$84k · revenue +114%
- KFKELOWNA FOODBANK8× · 2017–2024 · C$3k · revenue +314%
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue ×22
- RCRED CROSSone grant, 2022 · C$100 · revenue -47%
- HSHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF BCone grant, 2018 · C$10
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Providing community food bank with the support and resources necessery to enable them to accept store and distribute donations of fresh nutritious produce protein dairy etc to those enduring hunger and food insecurity across the province…
Operating long term care nursing homes licensed care and assisted living care homes and related support programs. primarily for seniors with limited care beds for young adults.some senior housing also provided under the guidlines of the…
Provision of health care services to residents of the interior region of British Columbia.
The federation assists member libraries to improve library service in the Kootenay/Boundary region by the following means: support for an integrated library system promotion of public libraries resource development through consortium…
The role of the Authority is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the north region of British Columbia and those referred from outside the region. Northern Health Authority was created…
o BC Ministry of Social Development and Poverty Reduction: WorkBC Contracts o Province of British Columbia Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Training (now Ministry of Post-Secondary Education and Future Skills): Retail Trades…
Mennonite central committee donations given to relief agency for poor people; mennonite church bc and mennonite church canada donations given to support relief workers;kelowna gospel mission local donation to help the poor
Kootenay lake hospital foundation raises funds to purchase priority medical equipment for the kootenay lake hospital
Support kimberley search and rescue by providing personnel training equipment and financial support. - primary role is to locate and rescue lost and injured persons. - support local authorites during mass casualty incidents and acts of…
1. inform & educate the public on community foundations and the positive effects of endowment contributions. 2. make grants to qualified donees who provide services to the community. 3. administer on behalf of municipal government granting…
1. religious advancement 2. financial support for ministry to minorities in canada 3. financial support for ministry work outside of canada 4. financial support for education in theology through grants to lutheran seminaries in canada 5.…
Volunteer organization that processes dired fruit and vegetables and prepares soup mix that is provided to other canadian registered charities for distribution to people in third world countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Synod of the Diocese of Kootenay and the most unlike its peers is Inn From the Cold - Kelowna. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Link Charity Canada Inc · United Way British Columbia · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.