Brantford, ON · Charitable organization
Living Water Reformed Church
Church services various weekly bible study grroups assisting or organizing outreach programs distribution of recorded church services tract distribution to the community and internet site with recorded church services.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k6 grants · C$24k
- C$10k–50k11 grants · C$210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED REFORMED MISSIONS ASSOCIATION | C$42,041 |
| SAFE FAMILIES | C$28,731 |
| SALEM UNITED REFORMED CHURCH | C$19,000 |
| BRANTFORD/BRANT COUNTY CRISIS PREGNANCY CENTRE | C$18,464 |
| COVENANT REFOREMED CHURCH OF TORONTO | C$18,353 |
| COVENANT CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF WYOMING | C$16,374 |
| GRACE FREE REFOREMED CHURCH | C$15,241 |
| ANCHOR CANADIAN REFORMED ASSOCIATION FOR THE HANDICAPPED | C$14,593 |
| WORD & DEED MINISTRIES CANADA INC. | C$13,843 |
| HOPE REFORMED CHURCH | C$13,367 |
| WENTWORTH BRANT REFORMED CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | C$10,015 |
| BRANTFORD BLESSING CENTRE | C$9,374 |
| BIBLE LEAGUE OF CANADA | C$4,839 |
| REDEMPTION PRISON MINISTRY | C$4,455 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS OF CANADA INC. | C$2,578 |
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 +47% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$42k 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
- BCBrantford/Brant County Crisis Pregnancy Centre6× · 2017–2024 · C$148k · revenue +23%
- WDWORD & DEED MINISTRIES CANADA INC.8× · 2017–2024 · C$129k · revenue +67%
- HRHope Reformed Church7× · 2017–2024 · C$96k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- GFGRACE FREE REFORMED CHURCHone grant, 2021 · C$11k
- TUTrinity United Reformed Church of St. Catharinesgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue +47%
- URUnited Reformed Churches of North Americaone grant, 2017 · 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.
Proclaim the gospel educate the youth in christian religion minister to the needy in the congregation
Hold weekly worship services give pastoral care support local outreach programs support missionaries at home and abroad catechism sunday school classes and evangelism
Preach the Holy Bible and maintain the facilities to do so Provide ministry of mercy and pastoral care Provide support to Mission work in Brazil Theological Seminary in Hamilton and other charitable organizations Lighthouse Ministries an…
1. weekly worship services 2. regular catechism instruction for youth 3. regular bible studies for men and women 4. pastoral and deaconal care 5. maintain church property including parsonage 6. conduct outreach mission in local community…
Provided religious training and assisted churches and schools in Suriname. Provided Bible courses and assistance to needy students.
Preaching the Word of God to our members through Worship services Church Education and Sunday School to the youth. Evangelistic outreach within our community and the support of Christian Missionaries. Benevolence to those in need.
Provide academic training for the ministry of the gospel
1) proclamation of god's word as revealed in the bible-weely 2) assisting the needy councelling families and individuals comforting the sick the lonley and the handicapped with the word of god 3) educating the youth in god's word
As a church we hold two weekly worship services each sunday at 9:30 am and 3:30 pm. during the week we offer various bible studies for all ages within our congregation. we also minister to the community in various ways. we participate in…
Preach the gospel of our lord jesus christ. the bible being the only and all-sufficient rule of faith and practice conduct evangelistic programs at home and abroad establish programs to propagate the gospel message of salvation promote…
1. proclaim the gospel of the lord jesus christ 2. promote the teachings and principles of the holy bible 3. support and promote christian missions and other charitable activities 4. minister to the needy and poor inside and outside the…
Coordinating programs and activities of the local church including worship services and church school classes. training and educating for christian witness. engage in mission work and evangelism. provide assistance to the needy including…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Reformed Church (Ontario) and the most unlike its peers is Hope Pregnancy & Family Support Centre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 24 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 Brantford/Brant County Crisis Pregnancy Centre ↗
- Who funds WORD & DEED MINISTRIES CANADA INC. ↗
- Who funds COVENANT REFORMED CHURCH OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds Grace Free Reformed Church ↗
- Who funds Hope Reformed Church ↗
- Who funds SALEM UNITED REFORMED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF WYOMING ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds BIBLE LEAGUE OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds Redemption Prison Ministry ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR CANADIAN REFORMED ASSOCIATION FOR THE HANDICAPPED ↗
- Who funds Voice of the Martyrs ↗
- Who funds UNITED REFORMED MISSIONS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WENTWORTH BRANT REFORMED CHRISTIAN EDUCATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BRANTFORD BLESSING CENTRE ↗
- Who funds WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS OF CANADA INC. ↗
- Who funds Cornerstone United Reformed Church ↗
- Who funds Bethel United Reformed Church ↗
- Who funds Mid America Reformed Seminary ↗
- Who funds Eglise Reformee St-Marc de Quebec ↗
- Who funds Trinity United Reformed Church of St. Catharines ↗
- Who funds STREETLIGHT MINISTRIES ↗
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: Redeeming Grace Reformed Church · Wellandport United Reformed Church · The Immanuel United Reformed Church Listowel Ontario · Zion United Reformed Church of Sheffield · Adoration United Reformed Church · Christian Stewardship Services · Immanuel Reformed Church of Bolton · Bethel United Reformed Church of Woodstock · Immanuel United Reformed Church of Jordan · Providence United Reformed Church of Strathroy · Rehoboth United Reformed Church of Hamilton · Grace Reformed 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.