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Calgary 30, AB · Charitable organization

Lutheran Church of Our Saviour

Public Services for Worship and Prayer; - Mission and Evangelism Programs; - Relief and Benevolence Programs; - Religious Education Programs.

C$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$22k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$4k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$22k
C$500
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Synod of Alberta and the TerritoriesC$22,000
Canadian Lutheran World ReliefC$2,325
McDougall United ChurchC$1,035
St Peter's Lutheran ChurchC$500
Veterans Association Food BankC$150
Calgary Inter-faith Food Bank SocietyC$25
Lutheran Theological SeminaryC$10
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$269k · 11 repeat orgsC$16k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

C$269k
C$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$650 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

  • SO
    Synod of Alberta and the Territories
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$178k · revenue +10%
  • SA
    Southwest Area Refugee Mission Society
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$43k · revenue +644% · 100% of their budget
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$30k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • HA
    Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the Eastgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$7k · revenue +28%
  • EL
    Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +39%
  • CK
    CAMP KUIAKOSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +66%

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 Hospital Ministry of Northern Alberta Society

Visiting the sick. recruit and train volunteers to visit lutherans who are hospitalized to provide them with spiritual care.

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2
Lutheran East District

Provide evangelical mission support to lutheran church-canada and its member congregations

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3
Lutheran Church-Canada

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.…

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4
Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc.

The Saskatchewan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) and its Bishop provide pastoral care for ELCIC rostered and diaconal ministers and nurture ELCIC congregations within the boundaries of the Saskatchewan Synod.…

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5
The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd of Red Deer

Christian Ministries Adult & Children's Christian Education Youth work Councelling Christian Outreach Support of other ministries and Social Agencies. Support National Church - mission work and Worldwide Relief Support of National and…

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6
British Columbia Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The synod co-ordinates with the national church elcic on church affairs. the synod operates a synod administration centre supporting the regular functions of the evangelical lutheran church in bc. the synod also oversees congregations…

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7
The Synod of the Diocese of Calgary

Providing administrative liturgical pastoral and strategic oversight for the approximately 70 anglican congregations within the boundaries of the diocese (i.e.southern alberta). operating ministry programs such as resettlement assistance…

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8
Lutheran Campus Ministry-Saskatoon

Provides weekly worship and Christian fellowship groups pastoral care and crisis support for students Bible Study programs leadership of faith-based housing community and supervision of Campus Centre weekly and drop-in programs. Provides a…

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9
Lutheran Student Movement Edmonton Chapter

1) Weekly student fellowship dinners followed by a speaker, discussion, study or social event 2) Assist in weekly worship for students 3) Host an an nual student winter retreat 4) Raise funds to subsidize participants'fees for annual…

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10
Peace Lutheran Church of Calgary

We are a Community Church holding weekly worship services. We provide Sunday School and Vacation Bible School activities as well as programs for Youth and Seniors. We give Pastoral care. We donate funds to denominational headquarters for…

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11
Redeemer Lutheran Church of Edmonton Alberta

Operating a church to spread the gospel of jesus christ. worship services are held weekly for members and visitors. donations are made to denominational synod and lutheran ministries and missions. weekly distribution outlet for edmonton…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mustard Seed Society and the most unlike its peers is Mcdougall United Church. 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

19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSynod of Alberta and the Territories — C$177,504 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetSouthwest Area Refugee Mission Society — C$43,399 over 2y, 100% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$30,466 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHoly Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East — C$7,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLutheran Hospital Ministries — C$5,500 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetSamaritan's Purse — C$4,985 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEvangelical Lutheran Church in Canada — C$4,643 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBlue Sea Philanthropy — C$4,429 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP KUIAKOS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMcDougall United Church — C$1,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCalgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society — C$1,378 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Peter's Lutheran Church — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Campus Ministry — C$280 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHeart and Stroke Foundation of Canada — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans Association Food Bank — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brenda Strafford Foundation Ltd. — C$90 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoyal Canadian Legion & Veterans Organization — C$40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society — C$40 over 3y, 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.

Hope Lutheran ChurchPrince of Faith Luthe…Faith Evangelical Lut…Lutheran Church of th…Lutheran Church of th…Shepherd of the Hills…Lutheran Triune Educa…CharitusUnited Way of Calgary…The Calgary FoundationBenefAction FoundationUnited Way of the Alb…
Hope Lutheran ChurchAB9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hope Lutheran Church · Prince of Faith Lutheran Church · Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sundre · Lutheran Church of the Cross · Lutheran Church of the Master · Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church · Lutheran Triune Education and Benevolent Society of Calgary · Charitus · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region

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 19 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 107649766:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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