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Burnaby, BC · Charitable organization

Citylights Church

Regular christian worship services christian benevolence supporting christian mission worldwide

C$38k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$16k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$22k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$16k
C$3,600
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WEST VILLAGE CHURCH SOCIETYC$16,200
PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF CANADA BC/YUKON DISTRICTC$8,350
RATANK INTERNATIONALC$3,600
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION CANADAC$3,600
MISSION HILL FELLOWSHIP OF CANADAC$3,000
E3 MINISTRY CANADAC$2,000
COMPASSION INTERNATIONALC$1,200
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$216k · 11 repeat orgsC$13k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

C$216k
C$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+20%

Still filing today

82%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • RI
    RATANAK INTERNATIONAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$30k · revenue +86%
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$30k · revenue +29%
  • WV
    WEST VILLAGE CHURCH SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$27k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • GG
    GOD'S GARDEN
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue +612%
  • CC
    CROSSPOINT CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue +20%
  • GC
    GATEWAY CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue +9%

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
Multiply Network

The organization operates global Christian mission programs by training and sending missionaries and church planting teams to all parts of the world. MULTIPLY Network builds the capacity of national leaders to contribute in the same ways.…

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2
Canadian Baptist Ministries

Cbm is a global mission organization committed to sharing god's love through word and deed. we believe that god brings healing to a broken world through local churches. with over 150 years of experience we have seen that words and deeds…

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3
Great Commission Media Ministries

Preaching the gospel through broadcasting TV programs Printed publications Emergency Relief Media evangelism Campaigns

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4
Global Missions Incorporated

Global missions incorporated is an organization whose mission is the promotion of the gospel and the relief of poverty.

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5
Bic Canada - Global

Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…

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6
Global Christian Ministries

Developing ministries and christian leadership by training pastors and lay workers funding missionary outreach program including attendance by chairman in countries where mission work is done

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7
Breakthrough Ministries International

1. Held Christian conferences to educate and raise awareness of children at risk and to raise funds for aid programs.

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8
Mission Central Christian Society

Plan & organize an annual interdenorinational christian conference in vancouver bc involving several missionary agencies & churches. the purpose of this conference is to raise awareness of the works of agencies and churches that releive…

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9
Action International Ministries Corporation

Action canada operates globally through an international joint venture agreement and our own agency agreements to minister the christian gospel in word and deed primarily to the poor in urban centres. our strategy for urban ministry can be…

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10
International Christian Mission Services

To conduct Canadian and foreign missions providing funds for missionary efforts To prepare and train national workers for Christian service and send them out as Christian missionaries To provide assistance to people living in poverty

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11
Partners International Canada

Partners International-Christian Nationals Evangelism Mission works on an ongoing basis with local indigenous partner ministries around the world to plant Christian churches to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. In many of those contexts…

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12
Mennonite Central Committee Canada

Please see our website and within the tab 'Learn More' there is a section entitled 'What We Do'. In every country where MCC works we partner with local churches and organizations with similar values. Together we work in three areas:…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Great Commission Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Core Conversations 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

21 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. 21 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRATANAK INTERNATIONAL — C$29,956 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION CANADA — C$29,920 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetWEST VILLAGE CHURCH SOCIETY — C$27,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$17,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF CANADA — C$9,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CONFERENCE OF MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH OF NORTH AM — C$8,783 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASSION CANADA — C$8,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetERDO — C$3,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION HILL FELLOWSHIP OF CANADA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$2,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetE3 MINISTRY CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOD'S GARDEN — C$1,950 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCROSSPOINT CHURCH — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGATEWAY CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COORDINATED CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$635 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL AID NETWORK — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTENTH AVENUE ALLIANCE CHURCH OF THE CHRISTIAN & MISSIONARY A — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY PENTECOSTAL CHURCH — C$20 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.

Link Charity Canada I…Abundance CanadaCHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Link Charity Canada IncON7.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Link Charity Canada Inc · Abundance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.

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 130994353:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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