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Waterloo, ON · Charitable organization

First United Church

Minister to the religious needs and provide related programs for the community of the regional municipality of waterloo.

C$52k
Granted FY2023
10
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$44k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$44k
C$685
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$618k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADAC$44,479
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA-WORLD DEV & RELIEFC$1,885
SUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOOC$1,221
COMMUNITY JUSTIVE INITIATIVESC$865
EMMANUEL UNITED CHURCH-VERA'S PLACEC$685
SHALOM COUNSELLING SERVICEC$685
SILVER LAKE CAMPC$534
UNITED COLLEGE (U OF W)C$534
FIVE OAKES RETREAT CENTREC$534
RECEPTION HOUSE WATERLOO REGIONC$356
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$400k · 12 repeat orgsC$9k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

C$400k
C$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$356 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • UC
    UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$363k · revenue +22%
  • UC
    UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA - WORLD DEV & RELIEF
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$10k · revenue +1%
  • EU
    Emmanuel United Church
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$7k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • SA
    STIRLING AVENUE MENNONITE CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +3%
  • SM
    ST. MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue +21%
  • SL
    ST LOUIS PARISH
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue -1%

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
Conrad Grebel University College

Conrad Grebel University College is founded by the Mennonite church and affiliated with the University of Waterloo. The mission and programs of Grebel are rooted in and and inspired by its Christian identity and its Anabaptist/Mennonite…

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2
Heartwood Place

Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo

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3
Victim Services of Waterloo Region

Victim services of waterloo region believes every victim has the right to heal from a crime or tragic circumstance. our programs create opportunities foster hope and promote safer and healthier communities.

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4
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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5
Waterloo Lutheran Seminary

Waterloo lutheran seminary (wls) is accredited by the association of theological schools an international accrediting body. its degree programs are accredited buy the ontario council of graduate studies. wls offers an undergraduate degree…

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6
Women's Rural Resource Centre of Strathroy & Area

Wrrc provides physical and psychological safety advocacy couselling and support to abused women and their children within west middlesex county ontario. programs: 24 hour emergency shelter/24 hour help line community and outreach…

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7
Renison University College

Renison University College is a college teaching in the arts and social sciences affiliated with the University of Waterloo. Renison offers courses in the departments of Social Development Studies and Culture and Language studies. We offer…

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8
United Way Waterloo Region Communities

United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve. We are the largest funder of social programs in Waterloo Region second only to government. We are…

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9
Unitarian Congregation of Guelph

The Unitarian Congregation of Guelph is a spiritual community that is deeply rooted in Unitarian Universalist principles which provide a spiritual basis for ethical living.

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10
House of Friendship

We serve over 46 000 people living on low income in Waterloo Region in four key areas: -Addiction treatment -Food -Housing -Neighbourhood / Community Services

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11
Westminster United Church

Conduct weekly worship services - in-person and on line. We offer pastoral care. Support for Mission & Service grief workshops adult programming child and youth programming. Offering marriage counseling youth ministry continually working…

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12
Lutherwood

In operation since 1970 Lutherwood offers a range of mental health and social service programs in Waterloo Region and Guelph-Wellington County. We provide the following: • We help children and their families work through mental health…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emmanuel United Church and the most unlike its peers is United Church Outdoor Ministries-Hamilton Conference. 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

16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
15/16
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 budgetUNITED CHURCH OF CANADA — C$363,125 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED CHURCH OF CANADA - WORLD DEV & RELIEF — C$9,896 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetEmmanuel United Church — C$7,177 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSTIRLING AVENUE MENNONITE CHURCH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOO — C$3,791 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Church of Canada Foundation — C$2,820 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHALOM COUNSELLING SERVICE — C$2,755 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE INITIATIVES — C$2,505 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFive Oaks Christian Workers Centre — C$2,474 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region — C$1,966 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST. MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$1,667 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST LOUIS PARISH — C$1,667 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRAINBOW CAMP — C$1,535 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED COLLEGE (U OF W) — C$1,353 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWaterloo Region Hospice — C$1,016 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRECEPTION HOUSE WATERLOO REGION — C$356 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.

United Way Waterloo R…Waterloo Region Commu…The United Church of …Abundance CanadaParkminster United Ch…Trinity United ChurchMersynergy Charitable…Astley Family Foundat…The Lyle Shantz Hallm…The Food Bank of Wate…Blue Sea Philanthropy…The United Church of …
United Way Waterloo Region CommunitiesON9.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du Canada · Abundance Canada · Parkminster United Church · Trinity United Church · Mersynergy Charitable Foundation · Astley Family Foundation · The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation · The Food Bank of Waterloo Region · Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc. · The United Church of 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 16 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 118919299:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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