Fort Mcmurray, AB · Charitable organization
Hope in Christ Ministries Fellowship
Reason concert for charity gospel music concerts x2 foreherity backpacks + macdonalds cards for homeless.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUP KITCHEN C NORTHLIFE BAPTIST CHURCH | C$2,500 |
| LEGACY COUNSELLING CENTRE | C$2,500 |
| FORT MCMURRAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY | C$2,500 |
| YWAM | C$2,500 |
| WAYPOINTS (HOMELESS CONNECT) | C$1,200 |
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 +34% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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
- COCentre of Hope (Santapacks & gift packs)7× · 2017–2023 · C$20k · revenue +31%
- YYWAM3× · 2022–2024 · C$7k · revenue +25%
- SASALVATION ARMY KETTLE3× · 2017–2021 · C$7k · revenue ×13
Funded once
- SKSOUP KITCHEN C NORTH LIFE FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · C$3k
- URUCB RADIO STATIONone grant, 2023 · C$3k
- LCLEGACY COUNSELLING CENTREone grant, 2020 · C$3k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Provides activities and programs for youth by full-time trained youth development professionals. offers a safe place to learn and grow all while having fun. the club is open everyday for day care and after school programs on weekends and…
We hold worship services weekly We hold youth activities weekly We provide Sunday school services for children We hold prayer meetings. Daycare centre for children
Religious services on sunday morning evening and sunday school nursery bible institue classes new member classes wednesday evening bible study group prayer time community outreach program mens prayer meetings
Provide activities recreation and entertainment for people over the age of fifty years within the regional municipality of wood buffalo.
Assist christian missions sharing the gospel via various means and supporting other qualified donees.
Programs that place children referred by childrens services into foster homes and provide support to both the children and the foster family
Operation of a women's shelter and support groups.
Ccca provides a comprehensive academic program accredited by alberta education for students in kindergarten through grade 12. programs are designed to develop each child's spirit body mind and soul and prepare them for service in christ's…
Family Violence Shelters: It is a secure and anonymous place for women & their children to receive support while they are fleeing violence. Family Centre: The Centre is for children up to age 5. We focus on mental and physical wellness and…
Shelter of women and families in crisis; Violence prevention programming in schools and the community; Crisis counseling; Low cost permanent housing; Community programming and events; homelessness supports; Short-term accommodation…
Out of school care program individual and family counseling summer adventure programs mentoring programs parenting programs support and educational programs group volunteer programs leadership programs health lunch programs fourth R…
Bearspaw christian school society has its primary objective as the operation of a private christian school that meets the private school requirements of alberta education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northlife Fellowship Baptist Church of Fort Mcmurray and the most unlike its peers is Wood Buffalo Society for Christian Education. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 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.
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.
- Who funds Centre of Hope (Santapacks & gift packs) ↗
- Who funds YWAM ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY KETTLE ↗
- Who funds FORT MCMURRAY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ASHFAM ↗
- Who funds MCMURRAY GOSPEL ASSEMBLY ↗
- Who funds The Children's Centre ↗
- Who funds Borealis Counseling Services ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINTS (HOMELESS CONNECT) ↗
- Who funds KINGS KIDS PROMOTION ↗
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: United Way Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge · Wood Buffalo Community Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.