Saskatoon, SK · Charitable organization
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
A christian church responding to the needs of members and the community; worship services bible study sunday school vacation bible school choir support of special needs and crisis; support for the local food bank; refugee support and support for the lgbqt community.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$2k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | C$18,000 |
| CLWR | C$1,180 |
| LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRY SASKATOON | C$292 |
| ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION | C$41 |
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 +50% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 6 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, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$18k 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
- SSSask Synod, ELCIC3× · 2017–2019 · C$62k · revenue +20%
- CLCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF3× · 2017–2019 · C$4k · revenue +56%
- LCLUTHERAN CARE SOCIETY INC. O/A LUMINHOS2× · 2018–2019 · C$683 · revenue +22%
Funded once
- NANEST-Refugee Agencyone grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue +18%
- MSMCC Saskatchewanone grant, 2023 · C$2k
- NSNEST Saskatoonone grant, 2023 · C$1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
7 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. 7 of the 15 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.
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: The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saskatoon Saskatchewan · Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon
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.