Cranbrook, BC · Charitable organization
East Kootenay Lutheran Parish
The purpose of this society shall be seek the glory and honor of god to carry out his will to manifest the unity of our faith in jesus christ as saviour to spread the kingdom of god and to foster the christian fellowship and love by the preaching of the ward of god by the instruction of all its members according to the confessional…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSOCIATION OF FREE LUTHERAN CONGREGATION | C$6,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT EAST KOOTENAY ASSOCIATION | C$5,000 |
| EAST KOOTENAY FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH | C$3,000 |
| CRANBROOK FOOD BANK SOCIETY | C$1,150 |
| CANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE | C$500 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | C$453 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 73% of grant dollars (C$53k). The 28% that went abroad (C$20k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 28% of all-years giving (C$20k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k 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
- AOASSOCIATION OF FREE LUTHERAN CONGREGATION3× · 2022–2024 · C$17k · revenue +228%
- EKEAST KOOTENAY FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH3× · 2017–2024 · C$3k · revenue +186%
- CFCRANBROOK FOOD BANK SOCIETY5× · 2019–2023 · C$2k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- TLTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · C$10k
- AOASSOCIATION OF FREE LUTHERAN CONGREGATIONS CANADA INCone grant, 2019 · C$6k
- ACAFLC CANADAone grant, 2021 · C$6k
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.
The Association is a national church body comprised of Canadian member congregations and individuals. The Association unites serves equips encourages and empowers congregations and individuals who share a common belief. The association…
worship services weddings funerals baptisms confirmations missions bible translation lutheran world relief spiritual counselling spiritual guidance spiritual education
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…
To work in church and community by teaching and preaching god's word and administering holy sacrament according to confessional and standard evangelical lutheran church. fostering christian fellowship in church and community by divine…
Provide evangelical mission support to lutheran church-canada and its member congregations
Assisting the local church in canada and asia by providing literature information and training.
Christian Reformed World Missions is the international evangelism ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. Activities include evangelism, discipleship, and missions programs around the world.
Provide financial support in establishing new churches provide scholarships to international and canadian students for religious instruction provide financial support for training of new ministers and international missionaries provide…
Lutheran theological seminary educates pastors students and lay leaders of the evangelical lutheran church in canada. this education leads to the following degrees and certificates: doctor of ministry for those already ordained for…
Training for christian ministry through undergraduate and graduate training.
The synod co-ordinates with the national church elcic on church affairs. the synod operates a synod administration centre supporting the regular functions of the evangelical lutheran church in bc. the synod also oversees congregations…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute and the most unlike its peers is Cranbrook Food Bank Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 ASSOCIATION OF FREE LUTHERAN CONGREGATION ↗
- Who funds ELK VALLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT EAST KOOTENAY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds EAST KOOTENAY FOUNDATION FOR HEALTH ↗
- Who funds CRANBROOK FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds WINDERMERE VALLEY CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR REFUGEES ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CROWSNEST LAKE BIBLE CAMP ↗
- Who funds OUR DAILY BREAD ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds THE GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL IN CANADA ↗
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.
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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.