Essex, ON · Charitable organization
Essex Christian Reformed Church
Religious teachings sunday school programs for all ages funds were distributed to denominational headquarters in canad for any country activities all funds were sent directly to canadian registered charities as noted.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD RENEW | C$3,567 |
| CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH OF MNORTH AMERICA | C$1,855 |
| ESSEX FOOD BANK | C$1,445 |
| MATTHEW HOUSE | C$1,123 |
| CANADIAN FOOD GRAINS BANK | C$1,038 |
| DYNAMIC YOUTH MINISTRIES | C$828 |
| MELO CLINIC | C$718 |
| RESONATE GLOBAL MISSIONS | C$694 |
| MARANATHA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | C$580 |
| TEEN CHALLEMNGE | C$514 |
| CALVIN SEMINARY | C$340 |
| UMEI | C$330 |
| REFRAME MINISTIRES | C$322 |
| FAITH FORMATION | C$304 |
| CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | C$264 |
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 +30% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$718 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
- RCRedeemer College7× · 2017–2023 · C$20k · revenue +56%
- EFESSEX FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2023 · C$10k · revenue +37%
- MHMatthew House6× · 2018–2023 · C$9k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- CRChristian Reformed Church of North Americaone grant, 2018 · C$11k
- MCMaranatha Christian Academyone grant, 2017 · C$2k
- MHMATTHEW HOUSEone grant, 2022 · C$1k
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 Reformed Home Missions is the evangelism ministry of the Christian Reformed Church in North America. Activities include support of existing churches, new church expansion, post-secondary campus ministry, and small gruop ministry.
World renew conducts disaster relief and community development programs in canada and throughout the world on behalf of the christian reformed church. activites include disaster response and development programs involving health literacy…
Provide academic training for the ministry of the gospel
Christian University Education
The ministry preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ through Canada and runs education programs as a K-12 school.
A) to provide personnel and resources for christian organizations and ministries; and b) to provide training and materials to christian leaders and individuals involved in evanglism and christian ministry worldwide
International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…
The Canadian Churches Forum for Global Ministries is an ecumenical Christian partnership through which Canadian churches work toward intercultural leadership and development and ministry through Biblical and theological reflection,…
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…
We exist to preach and advance the teachings of the Christian faith and the religious tenets doctrines and observances by providing consultation instructional material curriculum development and best practices; and to propagate the…
Planting churches training and coaching pastors training elders resourcing churches
Provide spiritual and practical leadership for the Reformed Church in America by sheparding the leaders congregations and classis within its field of ministry. Help cast the vision of the Synod coordinating church developments and serve as…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Christian Reformed Church in North America-Canada Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Melo Clinic & Pregnancy Centre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 28 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 CLASSIS CHATHAM ↗
- Who funds Redeemer College ↗
- Who funds ESSEX FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Matthew House ↗
- Who funds ESSEX CRC BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds Maranatha Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds DYNAMIC YOUTH MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds DIACONAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds RESONATE GLOBAL MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds RESONATE GLOBAL MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFRAME MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds World Vision ↗
- Who funds MELO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds STREET HELP - HOMELESS CENTRE OF WINDSOR ↗
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.