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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

First Lutheran Church of Vancouver British Columbia

We held in-person and online worship services weekly.

C$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$6,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC SYNOD ELCICC$6,000
CANADA LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF (CLWR)C$162
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$125k · 4 repeat orgsC$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

C$125k
C$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
100%

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

  • BS
    BC SYNOD - ELCIC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$119k · revenue +114%
  • CL
    Canada Lutheran World Relief
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$4k · revenue +40%
  • GV
    Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society
    2× · 2020–2022 · C$976 · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • HA
    Humanitarian Aid Response Team Society
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue -34%
  • AR
    AVALON RECOVERY SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue +37%
  • MP
    MISSION POSSIBLE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue +43%

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
Vancouver Rape Relief Society

The society operates programs aimed to end violence against women and to act as an educational force for progressive changes in attitudes laws institutional procedures and to work for the prevention of rape. vancouver rape relief society…

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2
Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch

Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…

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3
Atira Women's Resource Society

The society operates 11 housing programs for women and children in the whiterock and surrey areas one in richmond one in burnaby and 18 in vancouver. the society provides support programs for women and children who have witnessed and/or…

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4
Homelessness Services Association of Bc

The society provides support to and enhance the capacity of organizations in bc that serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness. the society provides training to front line shelter workers throughout the province. there are…

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5
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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6
Options Community Services Society

Options community services offers programs in surrey delta cloverdale white rock and langley. the society's fraser health crisis line serves the entire fraser health region from tri-cites to boston bar. options provides programs in many…

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7
United Way British Columbia

Ongoing Programs United Way British Columbia delivers programs resources and supports to people in need across our province. We support healthy caring and inclusive communities by strengthening vital connections to help ensure the health…

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8
Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch

1) mental health program development & delivery-we help build mental health skills and resilience for individuals. this includes parent support employment services crisis lines youth programs and support groups. 2) mental health education…

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9
Cowichan Women Against Violence Society

Cwav society provides client-centered safety shelter counselling and advocacy in support of individual family and community well-being. ongoing programs include somenos transition house women's night shelter homelessness prevention program…

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10
West Coast Leaf Association

West Coast LEAF uses four key program strategies: (1) public legal education and information; (2) research; (3) community engagement; and (4) advocacy in and outside of court. We apply these strategies across our work within six priority…

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11
The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver

We provide residential programs and supportive housing for women and youth who are homeless or have addiction and or mental health issues. we provide intensive case management programs for women exiting prison who are chronically homeless…

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12
Pacific Community Resources Society

The society operates alternative schools alcohol and drug counseling and prevention programs needle exchange program youth centres employment programs training for youth education assistance programs pathways to education program…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sums Place Society and the most unlike its peers is Camp Luther Association. 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

21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
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$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBC SYNOD - ELCIC — C$119,430 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetCanada Lutheran World Relief — C$4,138 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHumanitarian Aid Response Team Society (HART) — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAVALON RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION POSSIBLE COMPASSIONATE MINISTRIES SOCIETY — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFARM RADIO INTERNATIONAL — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KETTLE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER OUT ON SCREEN FILM AND VIDEO SOCIETY — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN BIBLE SOCIETY / SOCIETE BIBLIQUE CANADIENNE — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER SUN CHILDREN'S FUND SOCIETY — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUrban Indigenous Health & Healing Co-operative — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN NATIVE YOUTH ASSOCIATION — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIANS FOR LEADING EDGE ALZHEIMER RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association — C$1,154 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CANADIAN SECTION — C$1,153 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Vancouver Food Bank Society — C$976 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP LUTHER — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSURREY URBAN MISSION — C$150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABORIGINAL MOTHER CENTRE SOCIETY — C$130 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.

Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Vancouver FoundationBc Government Employe…Greater Vancouver Foo…Makeway FoundationYouth and Philanthrop…Raymond James Canada …Aqueduct FoundationGivewise Foundation C…BenefAction Foundation
Vancity Community FoundationBC12.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society · Makeway Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Givewise Foundation Canada · BenefAction Foundation

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 21 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 118918390:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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