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Winnipeg, MB · Charitable organization

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

At the National Office of the ELCIC we develop policies and standards for rostered leaders and worship public policies for the church in society and resources for stewardship and worship.

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$364k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$14k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$23k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$883k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$364k
C$6,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Eastern Synod - ELCICC$363,694
Saskatchewan Synod - ELCICC$226,790
Synod of Alberta & the TerritoriesC$207,937
Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario Synod - ELCICC$195,976
BC Synod - ELCICC$171,873
United Church of CanadaC$80,000
Canadian Council of ChurchesC$23,000
Church Council on Justice & CorrectionsC$6,000
Women's Interchurch Council CanadaC$3,000
Trinity EvC$1,000
Lutheran Theological SeminaryC$1,000
RedeemerC$1,000
GraceC$920
Zion's Lutheran ChurchC$400
Faith Evangelical Lutheran ChurchC$200
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.0M · 31 repeat orgsC$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
19

Total granted

C$6.0M
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+5%

Still filing today

94%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • SS
    Saskatchewan Synod - ELCIC
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$909k · revenue +20% · 29% of their budget
  • SO
    Synod of Alberta & the Territories
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$891k · revenue +10%
  • BS
    BC Synod - ELCIC
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$675k · revenue +114%

Funded once

  • KO
    King Of Lifegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$2k · revenue +40%
  • C
    Christ
    one grant, 2020 · C$2k · revenue -5%
  • Z
    ZION
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue -74%

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 Lutheran Church

Conduct weekly religous services in accordance with lutheran church canada

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3
Christ Lutheran Church Langenburg
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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
Living Word Lutheran Church

Worship preaching evangelism delivery of sacraments asministration & leadership

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7
St Luke's Lutheran Church

Worship services pastoral care outreach ministries

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8
St John's Lutheran Church

Religious services Weddings Funerals

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9
The First Lutheran Church

Place of worship

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10
Zion Lutheran Church

Regular worship services

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11
Christ Lutheran Church
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12
Salem Lutheran Church

Weekly worship services

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St. Stephen's Lutheran Church and the most unlike its peers is Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer. 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

48 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. 48 of the 50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
28/48
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 budgetSaskatchewan Synod - ELCIC — C$908,713 over 7y, 29% of budgetSynod of Alberta & the Territories — C$890,683 over 8y, 15% of budgetManitoba/Northwestern Ontario Synod - ELCIC — C$755,344 over 7y, 68% of budgetBC Synod - ELCIC — C$675,321 over 7y, 14% of budgetUnited Church of Canada — C$502,716 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$271,925 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCanadian Council of Churches — C$134,875 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetRhenish Church of Canada — C$120,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — C$104,660 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetGlory Lutheran — C$63,110 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetChurch Council on Justice & Corrections — C$41,852 over 7y, 11% of budgetWaterloo Seminary — C$33,342 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWomen's Interchurch council Canada — C$21,477 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetGrace — C$9,375 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetZion Evangelical Lutheran Church — C$5,485 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTrinity Ev — C$4,450 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetREDEEMER — C$3,050 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLuther College — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrinity Ev — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetKing Of Life — C$2,150 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSt Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLutheran Campus Ministry — C$2,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetZion's Lutheran Church — C$1,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMount Zion — C$1,650 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChrist — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSt Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church — C$1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetZION — C$1,182 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRedeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church — C$1,181 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSt John — C$1,175 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSt John Ev — C$1,170 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOstenfeld — C$1,050 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetGerman Evangelical Martin Luther Church of Otta — C$1,050 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGrace Evangelical Lutheran Church — C$850 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSt Stephen's Lutheran Church — C$800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPeace — C$700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFaith Evangelical Lutheran Church — C$500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChurch Of The Cross — C$500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHills Of Peace — C$400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInner City Pastoral Ministry — C$200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church Ellerslie — C$180 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPinawa — C$150 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLutheran Church of Our Saviour — C$100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST MARK'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Lutheran Bible Institute — C$70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Stephen's — C$20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKid's Kottage Foundation — C$20 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

CharitusEastern Synod of the …British Columbia Syno…Glory Lutheran Church…Saskatchewan Synod E…Canadian Lutheran Wor…Lutheran Triune Educa…Trinity Evangelical L…Zion Evangelical Luth…The Edmonton Communit…United Way of the Alb…Abundance Canada
CharitusON17.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charitus · Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Luthern Church in Canada / Synode de L'Est de L'Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne Au Canada · British Columbia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · Glory Lutheran Church Sherwood Park · Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc. · Canadian Lutheran World Relief · Lutheran Triune Education and Benevolent Society of Calgary · Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church · Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Abundance 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 50 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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 107354334:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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