Kingsville, ON · Charitable organization
First Lutheran Church
An evangelical christian church ministering to its members and its community and assisting in church missions.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k4 grants · C$6k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENGLISH DISTRICT OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSION SYNOD | C$20,000 |
| CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | C$2,500 |
| THE BRIDGE | C$2,000 |
| LWML MEDICAL MISSIONS (A DIVISION OF CANADA LUTHERAN WORLD R | C$1,000 |
| LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS | C$620 |
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 +56% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$620 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
- EDENGLISH DISTRICT OF LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD6× · 2019–2024 · C$110k · revenue +339% · 29% of their budget
- CLCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF8× · 2017–2024 · C$25k · revenue +56%
- TBTHE BRIDGE YOUTH CENTRE7× · 2018–2024 · C$17k · revenue +435%
Funded once
- COCHURCH OF ST LUKE LUTHERANone grant, 2018 · C$15k · revenue -14%
- SPSUNPARLOUR PREGNANCY AND RESOURCE CENTREgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$6k · revenue +43%
- TBTHE BRIDGE YOUTH CENTERone grant, 2017 · C$5k
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.
1. religious advancement 2. financial support for ministry to minorities in canada 3. financial support for ministry work outside of canada 4. financial support for education in theology through grants to lutheran seminaries in canada 5.…
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. We work in partnership with Lutheran and ecumenical…
Please see our website and within the tab 'Learn More' there is a section entitled 'What We Do'. In every country where MCC works we partner with local churches and organizations with similar values. Together we work in three areas:…
To work in church and community by teaching and preaching god's word and administering holy sacrament according to confessional and standard evangelical lutheran church. fostering christian fellowship in church and community by divine…
The Association is a national church body comprised of Canadian member congregations and individuals. The Association unites serves equips encourages and empowers congregations and individuals who share a common belief. The association…
Recruit train and send missionaries teachers medical personnel technicians and other personnel who are qualified to support and/or establish and develop national churches. Provide pastoral care to immigrant and non-immigrants in Canada.…
We are a church that provide biblical education to it's members and the community we also provide support to people in need within the community and through our CLWR (Canadian Lutheran World Relief) Program.
We participate in the ongoing programs of the evangelical lutheran church in canada through preaching god's word and spiritual instruction for children youth and adults. we have sunday weekday and other services as well as sunday school…
In our quest to spread the gospel of jesus christ we provide the following: 1. operating assistance and administrative guidance to our mission congregations 2. educational grants to canadian students pursuing a christian education 3.…
1-support global church ministries including theological teaching bible translation development of local church leaders counseling community outreach and conflict resolution church development and the support of canadian missionaries.…
The synod co-ordinates with the national church elcic on church affairs. the synod operates a synod administration centre supporting the regular functions of the evangelical lutheran church in bc. the synod also oversees congregations…
Provide financial support in establishing new churches provide scholarships to international and canadian students for religious instruction provide financial support for training of new ministers and international missionaries provide…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Laymen's League of Canada 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.
14 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. 14 of the 24 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 ENGLISH DISTRICT OF LUTHERAN CHURCH MISSOURI SYNOD ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHURCH CANADA EAST DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE YOUTH CENTRE ↗
- Who funds CHURCH OF ST LUKE LUTHERAN ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN HOUR MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SUNPARLOUR PREGNANCY AND RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds KINGSVILLE OCMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MCC MEAT CANNERS ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds VON CANADA ↗
- Who funds MCC MEAT CANNERS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS PURSE ↗
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.