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Kitchener, ON · Charitable organization

Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kitchener

Conduct regular public worship services in person & live streaming.

C$183k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$159k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k15 grants · C$24k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$159k
C$2,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN CHURCH- CANADAC$159,179
CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFC$3,573
ST JOHN'S KITCHEN (C/O K-W WORKING CENTRE)C$3,500
SUDANESE LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY-CANADAC$2,655
RAY OF HOPEC$2,050
FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGIONC$2,000
HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIPC$2,000
BC MISSION BOAT SOCIETYC$2,000
CHILDREN OF HOPE & PROMISE CANADAC$2,000
LUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS OF CANADAC$1,105
MARILLAC PLACEC$1,000
CAMBRIDGE SELF-HELP FOOD BANK INCC$1,000
LUTHERAN LAYMEN'S LEAGUEC$740
HAITI LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETYC$500
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARYC$90
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$1.4M · 21 repeat orgsC$2k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • LC
    LUTHERAN CHURCH- CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$507k · revenue +95%
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$62k · revenue +56%
  • CL
    CONCORDIA LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$29k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • GS
    GOOD SHEPHERD EV LUTHERAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · C$500 · revenue -25%
  • AB
    A BETTER TENT CITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$500 · revenue +46%
  • TL
    Trinity Lutheran Church
    one grant, 2018 · C$280 · revenue -18%

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
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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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
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
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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5
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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6
Lutheran Church - Canada Central District

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

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7
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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8
Living Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church

To work in church and community by teaching and preaching god's word and administering holy sacrament according to confessional and standard evangelical lutheran church. fostering christian fellowship in church and community by divine…

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9
Institute of Lutheran Theology Canada Society

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

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10
Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute

The canadian lutheran bible institute (clbi) is a discipleship training centre. we are biblical confessional and evengelical embracing christ's great commission. our mission is to train equip and empower servant-leaders of all ages within…

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11
Mt Calvary Lutheran Church

The congregation is a worshipping learning witnessing & serving community of baptized persons among whom the word of god in the bible is proclaimed and the sacraments are administered according to the gospel. in accordance with the beliefs…

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12
Trinity Lutheran Church of Moosomin

Free-will offerings are collected at weekly church services. from this revenue the church pays for expenses including the cost of having a pastor lead the church service. the church also donates to various organizations including: lutheran…

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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 Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.. 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

28 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH CANADA-EAST DISTRICT — C$596,550 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH- CANADA — C$507,476 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$62,346 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY — C$29,361 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetCHILDREN OF PROMISE — C$26,852 over 7y, 16% of budgetHISTORIC ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$22,977 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBC MISSION BOAT SOCIETY — C$20,557 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetST JOHN'S KITCHEN (C/O K-W WORKING CENTRE) — C$17,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUDANESE LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY — C$12,505 over 3y, 11% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN LAYMEN'S LEAGUE — C$7,692 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetLUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS OF CANADA — C$7,103 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetRAY OF HOPE — C$7,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConcordia Lutheran Seminary — C$6,778 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHaiti Lutheran Mission Society — C$5,695 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetMARILLAC PLACE — C$5,025 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetConcordia Luth Theological Seminary — C$4,617 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLAMP-LUTH ASSOC OF MISSIONARIES/PILOTS INC — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGION — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKITCHENER CONESTOGA ROTARY CLUB — C$1,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE SEA PHILANTHROPY-RIDE FOR REFUGE — C$1,115 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE SELF-HELP FOOD BANK INC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD EV LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetA BETTER TENT CITY — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTrinity Lutheran Church — C$280 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN BIBLE SOCIETY — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — C$20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Canand — C$5 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.

Faith Lutheran Church…Lutheran Church - Can…Lutheran Church-CanadaSt Peter's Lutheran C…Faith Lutheran ChurchFoothills Lutheran Ch…Christ Lutheran ChurchChrist Our King Luthe…Waterloo Region Commu…Pilgrim Lutheran Chur…Messiah Evangelical L…Grace Lutheran Church
Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener)ON11.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener) · Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries · Lutheran Church-Canada · St Peter's Lutheran Church · Faith Lutheran Church · Foothills Lutheran Church of Calgary · Christ Lutheran Church · Christ Our King Lutheran Church · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Pilgrim Lutheran Church · Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church · Grace Lutheran Church

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 28 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 130563695:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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