Dresden, ON · Charitable organization
Dresden Ministerial Association
Compassion Canada (foster children) Remembrance Day service Sunday Evening in the Park vacation bibles School support Lenten lunches annual cemetery decoration day school hot dog days support of Ridgetown campus ministry
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Compassion Canada | C$2,142 |
| Ridgetown College Chaplancy Program | C$1,000 |
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 +96% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 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
- CCCompassion Canada7× · 2017–2024 · C$8k · revenue +15%
- DCDresden Community Church Food Bank2× · 2018–2019 · C$2k · revenue +138%
- RTRight to Life Kent3× · 2018–2020 · C$1k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- CCCompassion Canadaone grant, 2023 · C$1k
- UMU-Turn Ministriesone grant, 2019 · C$800 · revenue -61%
- EREmergency Relief & Development Overseasgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$793 · revenue +72%
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.
Reframe ministries is the electronic media ministry of the christian reformed church in north america and around the world. the mission of reframe ministries is to use god's story of redemption to reframe lives around the world using media…
Reformed Faith Witness publishes Christian Courier an independent monthly publication that seeks to engage creatively in critical Christian journalism connecting Christians with a network of culturally savvy partners in faith for the…
Programs are designed to preach teach and support an outreach initiative in accordance with the doctrines and principles of the Christian bible.
Church services varous weekly bible study groups and outreach programs
Weekly church services sunday school for children small groups bible study coffee break bible study for women vacation bible school campus ministry at the university of guelph (ridgetown) mens breakfast program good things outreach (food…
We bring hope healing renewal and transformation to men who suffer from spiritual psychological or emotional pain by learning about the love of jesus in a peacful rural environment through christian discipleship mentoring practical life…
Providing christian worship services weekly and on special christian holidays. involvement in local outreach and relief programs. supporting of mission and relief organizations around the world.
Worship services bible studies community outreach leadership development youth group counselling refugee support pastoral care
Provides fellowship and worship services to the university in Kelowna. Programs include worship services fellowship with all members for spiritual help and growth support and counsel those in need help the poor and preach the gospel to…
Short-term residential assistance for the homeless Christian worships and meetings
Place of worship & religious fellowship counselling of families and individuals. promoting christian values.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Reformed Church (Dresden) Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Erdo. 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. 9 of the 12 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.
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 Compassion Canada ↗
- Who funds Ridgetown College Chaplaincy ↗
- Who funds Dresden Community Church Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Right to Life Kent ↗
- Who funds U-Turn Ministries ↗
- Who funds Emergency Relief & Development Overseas ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS MINISTRIES-CHATHAM HOPE HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN FARMERS CANADA ↗
- Who funds Dresden Christian Reform Church ↗
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: Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · 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.