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St Catharines, ON · Charitable organization

Grace Lutheran Church

We hold weekly worship services in English and provide weekly Sunday School and Adult Bible classes.

C$42k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$31k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$31k
C$710
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$240k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lutheran Church-Canada MissionsC$30,986
Canadian Lutheran World ReliefC$3,750
Lutheran Church-Canada Ukraine War effortC$3,450
Lutheran Laymen's LeagueC$1,275
Haiti Lutheran Mission SocietyC$1,025
Lutheran Bible Translators CanadaC$710
Lutheran Women's League Missionary League NationalC$170
Lutheran Association of Missionaries & PilotsC$150
Canadian Lutheran World Relief for UkraineC$130
Lutheran Church-Canada NicaraugaC$100
Concordia Lutheran Theological SeminaryC$40
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$312k · 11 repeat orgsC$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -10% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

C$312k
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
-21%

Still filing today

64%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$150 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

  • LL
    Lutheran Laymen's League
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4k · revenue +55%
  • LB
    Lutheran Bible Translators
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4k · revenue +22%
  • GS
    Good Shepherd
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$42 · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • CL
    Canadian Lutheran World Relief
    one grant, 2022 · C$7k
  • MS
    MS Society of Canada; Niagara Peninsula Chapter
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue -14%
  • TC
    The CAIA Connection
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue -41%

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
Canadian Lutheran World Relief

1. Provision of financial support to overseas development projects in developing countries. 2. Provision of assistance to refugees for immigration and settlement in Canada. 3. Provision of aid to disaster-stricken countries. 4. Provision…

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2
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of Canada Inc.

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…

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3
Lutheran Church - Canada Central District

Congregational encouragement and support pastor and deacon support mission development synodical support education.

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4
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

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…

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5
Lutheran Theological Seminary

Lutheran theological seminary educates pastors students and lay leaders of the evangelical lutheran church in canada. this education leads to the following degrees and certificates: doctor of ministry for those already ordained for…

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6
Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries

Receipt of various planned charitable gifts in favour of the organization from donors. the organization establishes and administers giving programs to encourage direct gifts bequests endowments and legacies to the organization. realized…

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7
Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations/L'associationcanadienne Des CongrÉGations LuthÉRiennes

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…

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8
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod - Canada/L'eglise Evangelique Lutherienne Synode Du Wisconsin - Canada

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.…

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9
Liebenzell Mission of Canada

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.…

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10
Concordia Lutheran Seminary

Concordia lutheran seminary is an institution of theological higher education dedicated primarily to the preparation of students for he pastoral ministry of lutheran church-canada and beyond. concordia lutheran seminary a seminary of…

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11
Latvian Lutheran Congregation

Supporting other charities through donations

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12
Institute of Lutheran Theology Canada Society

Provide theological education to canadian students via the institute of lutheran theology

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Church-Canada and the most unlike its peers is Good Shepherd Lutheran Church. 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

13 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. 13 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
4/13
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLutheran Church-Canada Missions — C$184,657 over 6y, 82% of budgetLutheran Church-Canada Missions — C$72,257 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHaiti Lutheran Mission Society — C$13,870 over 6y, 8.1% of budgetLutheran Laymen's League — C$4,065 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Bible Translators — C$3,755 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Women's Missionary League Canada — C$2,164 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMS Society of Canada; Niagara Peninsula Chapter — C$1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe CAIA Connection — C$1,040 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe RAFT - Niagara Resource Service for Youth — C$711 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia Lutheran Mission Society — C$711 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLutheran Association of Missionaries & Pilots — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd — C$42 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Leprosy Mission Canada — C$10 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.

  • Who funds Lutheran Church-Canada Missions ↗
  • Who funds Lutheran Church-Canada Missions ↗
  • Who funds Haiti Lutheran Mission Society ↗
  • Who funds Lutheran Laymen's League ↗
  • Who funds Lutheran Bible Translators ↗
  • Who funds Lutheran Women's Missionary League Canada ↗
  • Who funds MS Society of Canada; Niagara Peninsula Chapter ↗
  • Who funds The CAIA Connection ↗
  • Who funds The RAFT - Niagara Resource Service for Youth ↗
  • Who funds Concordia Lutheran Mission Society ↗
  • Who funds Lutheran Association of Missionaries & Pilots ↗
  • Who funds Good Shepherd ↗
  • Who funds The Leprosy Mission Canada ↗

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.

St Peter's Lutheran C…Faith Lutheran Church…Christ Lutheran ChurchSt. Peter's Lutheran …Holy Cross Evangelica…Lutheran Church - Can…Faith Lutheran ChurchChrist Lutheran Churc…Foothills Lutheran Ch…Christ Our King Luthe…Bethel Lutheran ChurchMy Tribute Gift Found…
St Peter's Lutheran ChurchON10.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: St Peter's Lutheran Church · Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener) · Christ Lutheran Church · St. Peter's Lutheran Church · Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kitchener · Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries · Faith Lutheran Church · Christ Lutheran Church - St. Catharines · Foothills Lutheran Church of Calgary · Christ Our King Lutheran Church · Bethel Lutheran Church · My Tribute Gift 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 19 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 118944065:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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