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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

Grace Lutheran Church

Religious services/weddings/funerals/youth programs-social community religious/children's programs/bible studies/social work-local national & international through canadian lutheran world relief counselling services emotional support for homebound and hospital stays meals for new families & others in need transportation for those in…

C$1k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
Regions reached
C$567
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$567
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN WOMEN'S MISSIONARY LEAGUE-CANADAC$567
BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S KIDS (BB4CK)C$468
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.6M · 8 repeat orgsC$6k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

C$1.6M
C$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+48%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$468 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
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

  • CF
    Calgary Foundation / Concordia Lutheran Seminary
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$1.5M · revenue +184%
  • LW
    Lutheran Women's Mission League
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$8k · revenue +57%
  • LC
    Lutheran Church of Canada
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$4k · revenue +95%

Funded once

  • IF
    Inn from the Cold aSocietygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k · revenue +40%
  • CL
    Concordia Lutheran Seminarygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue +48%
  • N
    NeighborLink
    one grant, 2018 · C$500

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
Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The Synod is shepherd to Lutheran congregations in Alberta Yukon and NT. It provides financial and other support for outreach programs ofcongregations as well as counsel and guidance to about 200 pastors through the Bishop of the Synod.…

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2
Lutheran Institutional Ministry-Edmonton
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3
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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4
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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5
Institute of Lutheran Theology Canada Society

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

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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
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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8
Lutheran East District

Provide evangelical mission support to lutheran church-canada and its member congregations

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9
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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10
Lutheran Hospital Ministry of Northern Alberta Society

Visiting the sick. recruit and train volunteers to visit lutherans who are hospitalized to provide them with spiritual care.

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11
Lutheran Church of the Cross

Weekly worship services christian education for children youth and adults pastoral care community outreach financial support for the alberta synod of the evangelical lutheran church in canada

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12
Lutheran Church - Canada Central District

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

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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 Inn From the Cold Society. 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCalgary Foundation / Concordia Lutheran Seminary — C$1,531,495 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetLutheran Church of Canada-Alberta-BC District — C$9,338 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Women's Mission League — C$7,984 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetInn from the Cold aSociety — C$4,477 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Church of Canada — C$4,475 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran hospital Ministries-Southern Alberta — C$1,450 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetConcordia Lutheran Seminary — C$1,034 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S KIDS (BB4CK) — C$468 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran La7ymen's League of Canada — C$298 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Lutheran World Relief — C$145 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS OF CANADA — C$75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Church of the Good Shepherd — 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.

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.

Foothills Lutheran Ch…Lutheran Church - Can…St Paul Luthern Churc…Faith Evangelical Lut…Trinity Lutheran Chur…Immanuel Lutheran Chu…Hope Lutheran Church …Bethel Lutheran ChurchPayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Foothills Lutheran Church of CalgaryAB9.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Foothills Lutheran Church of Calgary · Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries · St Paul Luthern Church of Medicine Hat Alberta · Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church of Surrey B.C. · Trinity Lutheran Church Richmond · Immanuel Lutheran Church · Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam · Bethel Lutheran Church · 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.

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 13 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 2022-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. 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 FY2022, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 118944206:2022-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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