Edmonton, AB · Private foundation
Deo Gratias Foundation
To contribute to registered canadian charities for spreading of the new testament and the alleviation of suffering and support of those in need
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$110k
- C$50k–250k9 grants · C$800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPE CITY CHURCH | C$240,000 |
| JUSTICE CENTRE | C$100,000 |
| VILLAGES OF HOPE | C$100,000 |
| HOPE MISSION | C$75,000 |
| SHEPHERDS CARE FOUNDATION | C$70,000 |
| NATION TO NATION | C$65,000 |
| ALPHA CANADA | C$50,000 |
| EDMONTON PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE | C$50,000 |
| HOME OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES INC | C$50,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED | C$30,000 |
| PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF CANADA | C$30,000 |
| VANGUARD COLLEGE | C$20,000 |
| FOCUS ON THE FAMILY (CANADA) ASSOCIATION | C$20,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | C$10,000 |
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 +22% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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
- HCHOPE CITY CHURCH8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +89%
- PAPENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF CANADA7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +22%
- VOVILLAGES OF HOPE8× · 2017–2024 · C$585k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- CNCAMP NUTIMIK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · C$30k · revenue -28%
- NCNORWOOD CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTREone grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue -22%
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.
Christian philanthropic work that provides: - Evangelism and discipleship strategies and resources for churches and individuals - Support for children in various nations
Preaching the gospel primarily in rural locations including the holding of religious programs for children youth and adults. We run camps and conferences for women men youth and children at centres in BC Alberta Quebec and Ontario.
Youth With a Mission Society (Alberta) promotes the gospel of Jesus Christ in Canada and abroad by providing opportunities to learn pray give and go for the cause of world missions. Current programs include; a 20 week discipleship training…
Ordaining ministry promoting religious and charitable work establishing churches operating youth camps hosting religious conventions assisting with the establishment and support of orphan homes in third world countries
We engage in and promote Christian mission work in Canada and in foreign countries -We engage in humanitarian mission work in foreign countries including relief of poverty medical relief and operation of a number of daycare facilities. -We…
The mustard seed is a christian charitable organization that is servicing vulnerable citizens in alberta and british columbia. in calgary the charity offers an expansive range of innovative programs and services including education and…
Conducts missionary work in the developing countries
Building houses for the needy in El Salvador. Day-to-day financial activity goes through The Great Commission Foundation.
Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…
Providing health education by instruction to the public regarding hiv/aids; providing basic necessities of life such as shelter and medical assistance to children orphaned by hiv/aids; teaching the christian faith. all of 1-3 take place in…
1.Teaching and advancing the teaching of Christian faith and religious tenets doctrine observances and culture associated with Christianity. 2.Establishing maintaining and supporting a house fellowship with services conducted in accordance…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Vanguard College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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.
- Who funds HOPE CITY CHURCH ↗
- Who funds PENTACOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds VILLAGES OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds HOME OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds NATION TO NATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE MISSION ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds MISSION OF MERCY CANADA ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON THE FAMILY (CANADA) ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED ↗
- Who funds ALPHA CANADA ↗
- Who funds Vanguard College ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds EDMONTON PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds YOUTH WITH A MISSION (YWAM) ↗
- Who funds CAMP NUTIMIK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds NORWOOD CHILD AND FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
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: The Rebman Christian Foundation · Hope City Church (Edmonton) · Abundance Canada · Southside Pentecostal Assembly of Edmonton · Smmart Foundation · North Pointe Community Church · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)
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.