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Kitchener, ON · Public foundation

Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Luthern Church in Canada / Synode de L'Est de L'Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne Au Canada

The eastern synod provides pastoral care and assistance to congregations and pastors.

C$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$462k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k23 grants · C$62k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$203k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$429k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.3M
C$4,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARITUSC$462,200
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADAC$441,735
WATERLOO LUTHERAN SEMINARYC$369,337
LUTHERAN HOMES KITCHENER-WATERLOOC$239,775
CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFC$189,572
JESUS THE ONLY WAY-ARABIC EVANGELICAL MISSIONC$39,188
LUTHERYN CAMP AND CONFERENCE CENTREC$38,396
ST. MARK'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHC$29,547
TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHC$20,000
ST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCHC$17,300
ST. PHILIP'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHC$16,000
LUTHERAN CAMP MUSH-A-MUSH SOCIETYC$15,575
MOUNT ZION EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF WATERLOOC$14,000
ST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH KITCHENERC$12,750
ST. JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHC$9,137
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$20M · 70 repeat orgsC$549k to everyone else

70 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
42

Total granted

C$20M
C$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+17%

Still filing today

97%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$395k 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

  • EL
    Evangelical Lutheran Foundation of Eastern Canada
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$7.3M · revenue +56% · 70% of their budget
  • EL
    Evangelical Luterhan Church in Canada
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.7M · revenue +39%
  • WL
    Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$3.7M · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TC
    TORONTO COUNCIL FIRE NATIVE CULTURAL CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +29%
  • SM
    ST. MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · C$24k · revenue -16%
  • SL
    St Luke's Placegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$13k · revenue +59%

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
Christ Lutheran Church

Weekly Sunday Services Sunday School Baptism and ELW Bible Studies confirmation classes

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2
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

Provides religious services (worship services weddings funerals etc)

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3
St John's Lutheran Church

Religious services Weddings Funerals

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4
Trinity Lutheran Church

Church Services Sunday school Bible Study

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5
Christ Lutheran Church

Weekly Worship Services Weddings Baptisms Funeral Services Confirmation of Faith Classes Sunday School Lessons etc. Pastoral Care - ministry to men women children and families. Pre-Marital Council Bible Study visitation to shut-ins and…

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6
St Pauls Lutheran Church

Weekly worship services

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7
Emmanuel Lutheran Church

Worship services baptisms funerals marriages bible studies pastor visits counseling

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8
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

Weekly divine worship services

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9
St Luke's Lutheran Church

Worship services pastoral care outreach ministries

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10
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church

Regular Sunday services special occasion services bible studies confirmation classes Sunday school vacation bible school and visitations of shut ins. Weddings and funeral services as reqested.

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11
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church

Preaching and teaching the gospel. holding weddings and funerals and regular worship services.

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12
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Reformation

Hold weekly church services, bible study, preach word of god, marriages, burials, baptisms

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Martin Luther Evangelical Lutheran Church and the most unlike its peers is Kids in Camp. 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

115 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. 115 of the 118 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/115
Grantees still filing
74/115
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEvangelical Lutheran Foundation of Eastern Canada — C$7,276,052 over 8y, 70% of budgetEvangelical Luterhan Church in Canada — C$3,662,163 over 8y, 24% of budgetWaterloo Lutheran Seminary — C$3,650,064 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Lutheran World Relief — C$1,872,806 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetLuthran Homes Kitchener-Wateloo — C$961,427 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetWATERLOO LUTHERAN SEMINARY — C$369,337 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetRhenish Lutheran Church — C$237,900 over 6y, 12% of budgetLUTHERLYN CAMP & CONFERENCE CENTRE — C$182,042 over 8y, 42% of budgetMount Zion Lutheran Church — C$168,575 over 7y, 11% of budgetSt. Paul's Chinese Lutheran Church — C$145,860 over 6y, 52% of budgetSt Peter's Lutheran Church — C$131,311 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetLutheran Camp Mush-A-Mush Society — C$118,700 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMOUNT ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$103,015 over 5y, 23% of budgetJESUS THE ONLY WAY-ARABIC EVANGELICAL MISSION — C$96,730 over 3y, 43% of budgetST PHILIP'S LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$96,499 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetST MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$63,832 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetSt John's Lutheran Church — C$63,750 over 3y, 14% of budgetST. DAVID ANGLICAN-LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$56,100 over 5y, 12% of budgetRHENISH LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$48,159 over 4y, 21% of budgetST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$45,600 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetST. MARK'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$44,547 over 3y, 10% of budgetFirst Lutheran Church — C$40,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetResurrection Lutheran Church — C$39,378 over 7y, 6.7% of budgetTRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$38,833 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetST. DAVID LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$35,325 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetALL SAINTS LUTHERAN ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$32,300 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetTRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$30,200 over 3y, 11% of budgetHer Majesty's Royal Chapel of the Mohawks (St.Paul's) — C$28,940 over 3y, 44% of budgetZion Evangelical Lutheran Church — C$25,800 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetWestside Lutheran Church — C$25,650 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTORONTO COUNCIL FIRE NATIVE CULTURAL CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST. JOHN'S LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$24,137 over 2y, 11% of budgetST. MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$24,013 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSt. John's Lutheran Church — C$17,204 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetTrinity Lutheran Church — C$16,025 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetLUTHERAN CAMP MUSH-A-MUSH SOCIETY — C$15,575 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetSt John's Lutheran Church — C$12,900 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSt Luke's Place — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCambridge Self Help Food Bank — C$12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Salvation Army Community & Family Services - Cambridge — C$12,500 over 1y, 11% of budgetLissard & Inisfree Hospice — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMount Calvary — C$12,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetHoly Trinity Lutheran Church — C$9,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetST. JAMES' LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$9,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetPEACE LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$9,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetSt. Peter's Lutheran Church — C$8,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetResurrection Lutheran Church — C$7,500 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetTRILLIUM LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$7,200 over 2y, 0.4% 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.

CharitusEvangelical Lutheran …St. Philip's Lutheran…Grace Evangelical Lut…St Matthews (Kitchene…Waterloo Region Commu…The Food Bank of Wate…The Roman Catholic Ep…United Way Waterloo R…My Tribute Gift Found…Youth and Philanthrop…The United Church of …
CharitusON31.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charitus · Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · St. Philip's Lutheran Church · Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church (Oakville) · St Matthews (Kitchener) Lutheran Church · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · The Food Bank of Waterloo Region · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du 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.

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 118 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 public foundation under christianity.

Source object 107273666:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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