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Hamilton, ON · Charitable organization

First Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hamilton

Serving the Estonian Lutheran community in Hamilton and surrounding areas as a congregation of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Estonia and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.

C$232k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$108k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$208k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$708k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Estonian Summer Camp Society Inc.C$108,282
Estonian Arts CentreC$100,000
Deanery of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in CanadC$10,200
Estonian Ecumenical Relief OrganizationC$5,000
Hamilton Food ShareC$2,500
Good Shepherd CentresC$2,500
United Nations FoundationC$2,000
Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in CanadaC$1,020
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 50% of grant dollars (C$162k). The 50% that went abroad (C$160k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 50% of all-years giving (C$160k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$2k · 1 grant

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$178k · 3 repeat orgsC$144k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

C$178k
C$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-55%
-23%

Still filing today

33%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$112k 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

  • ES
    Estonian Summer Camp Society Inc.
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$148k
  • DO
    Deanery of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canad
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$22k · revenue -55% · 44% of their budget
  • ES
    Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$8k

Funded once

  • CL
    Christ Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k · revenue -23%
  • HE
    Hamilton Estonian School
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k
  • CR
    Canadian Red Cross
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue -47%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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.

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First Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hamilton

Serving the Estonian Lutheran community in Hamilton and surrounding areas as a congregation of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Estonia and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.

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2
Estonian Museum Canada

To promote programs facilities and endeavours related to estonian studies canada.

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3
Estonian Foundation of Canada

The estonian foundation supports estonian cultural and heritage programs and initiatives across canada through charitable activities such as advancing education through language history and cultural programs academic scholarships and the…

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4
Citizen Action Group Hamilton

Citizen action group carries out work which supports persons experiencing difficulties finding and maintaining employment

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5
Canadian Federation of University Women Hamilton

McMaster University Scholarships - $4000 Hamilton Child and Family Supports (formerly CAS) Bursary - $1000 Mohawk College Bursary - $1000 CFUW Charitable Trust - $128

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6
Hamilton Community Support Association
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7
Hamilton Community Foundation

Hamilton community foundation drives positive change in hamilton by building and managing endowed and other charitable funds and making strategic and effective grants and loans to charitable organizations and initiatives. we facilitate…

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8
Housing Help Centre for Hamilton and Area

Housing help centre - hamilton and area (the 'centre') is a non-profit social service agency that has acted as a portal to housing services since 1988. the centre provides information advocacy and support to people who need housing…

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9
Hamilton Association for Residential & Recreational Redevelopment Programs

HARRRP runs community centres in Hamilton, ON that provide free programs and services to neighborhood residents. They are community hubs where people meet in structured and casual ways to engage in educational, artistic, recreational,…

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10
Estonian Relief Committee in Canada

Estonian relief committee (erc) in canada is a canada-wide estonian aid organization. its objective is to draw together estonians and their organizations in canada to provide aid for benefit of the estonian community give or organize aid…

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11
Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre

We provide primary health care and health promotion programs. we provide counselling education and outreach. we provide support groups for isolated individuals. we provide emergency food access. we hold life skills and personal development…

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12
Ywca Hamilton

Provide safe and affordable housing solutions through an overnight emergency drop-in/shelter; transitional housing for women and children fleeing violence; permanent affordable housing for women gender diverse people and families; and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Good Shepherd Centre Hamilton and the most unlike its peers is Estonian Arts Centre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

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 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
1/9
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 budgetEstonian Arts Centre — C$100,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetDeanery of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canad — C$21,594 over 8y, 44% of budgetChrist Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church — C$20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetEstonian Ecumenical Relief Organization — C$5,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetHamilton Food Share — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Centres — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanada-Ukraine Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Living Hamilton — C$100 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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.

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 13 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 131499832:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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