Tomahawk, AB · Charitable organization
Immanuel Lutheran Church
Provide spiritual and social guidance and counseling to the community within the beliefs of the Lutheran Church Canada.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lutheran Church Canada | C$2,500 |
| Concordia Seminary | C$2,000 |
| LWML - Immanuel | C$786 |
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.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- CSConcordia Seminary8× · 2017–2024 · C$15k · revenue +48%
- LWLUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF3× · 2017–2020 · C$250 · revenue +56%
- LBLutheran Bible Translators3× · 2017–2020 · C$80 · revenue +18%
Funded once
- LLWML-Immanuelone grant, 2023 · C$135
- LLLutheran Laymens Leagueone grant, 2022 · C$100
- LLLutheran Laymans League of Canadagraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$100 · revenue +55%
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.
Provide theological education to canadian students via the institute of lutheran theology
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…
1. religious advancement 2. financial support for ministry to minorities in canada 3. financial support for ministry work outside of canada 4. financial support for education in theology through grants to lutheran seminaries in canada 5.…
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…
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.…
Provide evangelical mission support to lutheran church-canada and its member congregations
Congregational encouragement and support pastor and deacon support mission development synodical support education.
Worship preaching evangelism delivery of sacraments asministration & leadership
Conduct weekly religous services in accordance with lutheran church canada
Concordia lutheran theological seminary provides training primarily for certifying candidates for ministry within lutheran church canada. there are two programs streams. a two year master of theological studies and a four year master of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Laymen's League of Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Rock Lutheran Inner City Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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: Bethel Lutheran Church · Concordia Lutheran Church of Edmonton Alberta · Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church · Emmaus Lutheran Church · Grace Lutheran Church · Immanuel Lutheran Church · Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance 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.