Courtenay, BC · Charitable organization
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church of Courtenay British Columbia
worship services weddings funerals baptisms confirmations missions bible translation lutheran world relief spiritual counselling spiritual guidance spiritual education
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k12 grants · C$11k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lutheran Church Canada | C$10,360 |
| Concordia Lutheran Seminary | C$5,000 |
| Comox Valley Transition Society | C$1,055 |
| Comox Valley Foodbank | C$680 |
| BC mission Boat Society | C$550 |
| Salvation Army | C$515 |
| The Sonshine Lunch Club | C$505 |
| L'Arche Comox Valley | C$450 |
| Nesting Place Society | C$440 |
| You Are Not Alone (YANA) | C$440 |
| Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation | C$430 |
| Comox Valley Hospice Society | C$425 |
| Glacier View Lodge | C$390 |
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.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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
- YY.A.N.A.3× · 2022–2024 · C$2k · revenue +34%
- TSThe Sonshine Lunch Club3× · 2022–2024 · C$1k · revenue +31%
- CVComox Valley Healthcare Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · C$790 · revenue +58%
Funded once
- LCLutheran Church Canada,ABC Districtone grant, 2018 · C$5k
- CVComox Valley Transition Societygraduatedone grant, 2022 · C$550 · revenue +98%
- GVGlacier View Lodge Centreone grant, 2023 · C$460
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.
Improving access to healthcare and related services through relationship building with individuals who are homeless or at-risk of homelessness in the comox valley.
The organization operates to provide twenty-four hour emergency response for medically at-risk individuals. this service allows the elderly and disabled to maintain their independent lifestyles and provides peace of mind respite and…
The Association provides healthy support for children and families family development support and therapeutic counselling. The support and counselling is for individuals and in group environments.
Glacier view lodge society operates a complex care facility that provides 24-hour nursing care respite care and an adult day program to a diverse and aging community in the comox valley.
Advocate for and develop affordable housing opportunities in the columbia valley
Drug and alcohol treatment
Volunteers distribute food hampers to help feed senior adults families and children. - Funding for Food Learning Programs and Health Eating Programs for Grade School and Early Learning centers. - Provide emergency food hampers in crisis…
Volunteer Comox Valley - Education awareness of volunteer opportunities
We relieve poverty by supplying food hampers to needy families over the christmas season. we donations either monetary or food toys for approximately 550 families in the comox valley.
Mutual support groups e.g. head injury survivor groups anger management groups caregiver support groups family and financial crisis counselling specialized health organization food security programs. Support programs to help groups and…
Prayer ministry spiritual support
Supported child care services (0-12) - support for children with special needs to be included into integrated settings in the community. community integration program (12-19) - teens and young adults with special needs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Comox Valley Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is The Sonshine Lunch Club. 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 26 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 Y.A.N.A. ↗
- Who funds The Sonshine Lunch Club ↗
- Who funds Comox Valley Healthcare Foundation ↗
- Who funds Comox Valley Foodbank ↗
- Who funds Comox Valley Transition Society ↗
- Who funds L'Arche Comox Valley ↗
- Who funds Nesting Place Society ↗
- Who funds Comox Valley Hospice Society ↗
- Who funds Canadian Lutheran World Relief ↗
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: Comox Valley Community Foundation · Anglican Synod of the Diocese of British Columbia · St Michael & All Angels Protestant Chapel · United Way Central and Northern Vancouver Island · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Parish of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart-Cfb Comox · United Way British Columbia · Union Bay Mission United Church · The Victoria Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation
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.