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Drayton Valley, AB · Charitable organization

Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley

Living Spirit United Church is a religious organization whose primary focus of programming is the furtherance of religion through worship study fellowship and the promotion of social justice.

C$13k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$790
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$126k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The United Church of CanadaC$8,525
Canadian Foodgrains BankC$1,096
First United ChurchC$1,050
Bissell CentreC$790
Bashaw United ChurchC$650
Ponoka United ChurchC$600
Eleanor Pickup Arts CentreC$250
Athabasca United ChurchC$50
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$37k · 6 repeat orgsC$6k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

C$37k
C$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$300 went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TU
    The United Church of Canada
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$27k · revenue +5%
  • CF
    Canadian Foodgrains Bank
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$2k · revenue +34%
  • PU
    Ponoka United Church
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$2k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TU
    The United Church of Canada
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k
  • AS
    All Saints Anglican Church
    one grant, 2022 · C$100 · revenue +14%
  • OU
    Okotoks United Church
    one grant, 2023 · C$100

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
First United Church

We hold weekly worship services. We provide ministries for women, men, youth and children. We provide pastoral care to members and others. We provide support to local and national mission activities. We provide assistance to people in the…

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2
Wyoming United Church

Weekly worship services in person and available on-line as a recording. Provide pastoral care. Donate funds to local food bank and mission funds.

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3
St Andrew's United Church

Supporting food banks and community pantry and supporting other charitable organizations such as shelters and recovery centers

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4
Fairmont United Church

Weekly worship service, ucw (united church women), bible study, emergency food bank

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5
Downsview United Church

Weekly worship services in person and on Zoom Pastoral care through phone calls and visits Supported global and local mission work Support a women's shelter Assists community with meeting space

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6
Midhurst United Church

Worship. Care to elderly pastoral care to community Hospice and Hospice visitations Mission programs through denomination and through local organizations Provide food and clothing for homeless Provide urgent religious care Prayer shawls…

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7
Powassan Pastoral Charge United Church

Locally we help people by supporting homeless shelters food banks community kitchens and refugee programs. globally we support people to access clean water food and medical care. we support skills training and economic development. we…

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8
St. Andrew's United Church

Weekly worship services; ministry to men women youth and children; donate funds to domestic charities; provide food vouchers clothing and financial aid to people in need; sponsor weekly community programs; provide cribs car seats small…

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9
Christ United Church

Worship service weekly provide Pastoral Care Prayer Circle donate funds to denomination headquarters for overseas missionary activities provide outreach in the community and area.

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10
Birchcliff Bluffs United Church

Provide Weekly worship services. seasonal bible study classes pastoral care and Outreach to vulnerable people in the community by providing a space for a food bank and also for drop-in programs for LGBTQ's. Promote social justice and…

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11
Carstairs Bancroft United Church

Weekly Church services discussion groups and Bible study programs are offered. Church activities provide food and supplies for needy families as well as collecting clothing and personal hygiene items for women's shelters and homeless…

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12
Union United Church

Provide pastoral care visit the sick and shut ins sunday worship services provide meals for the poor and underprivileged program for senior citizens programs for youth support groups for men and women prison ministry family support

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First United Church and the most unlike its peers is Eleanor Pickup Arts Centre. 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 15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
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 budgetThe United Church of Canada — C$26,740 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst United Church — C$3,650 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCanadian Foodgrains Bank — C$2,104 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPonoka United Church — C$1,750 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBissell Centre — C$1,535 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBashaw United Church — C$850 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEleanor Pickup Arts Centre — C$250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAll Saints Anglican Church — C$100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Inter-Church Council of Canada — C$70 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPembina Crisis Connection Society — C$50 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAthabasca United Church — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt. David's United Church — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScarboro United Church — C$50 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.

The United Church of …The United Church of …Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The United Church of CanadaON8.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Church of Canada · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du 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.

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 15 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 710692732:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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