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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

Lutheran Church of the Cross

Weekly worship services christian education for children youth and adults pastoral care community outreach financial support for the alberta synod of the evangelical lutheran church in canada

C$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
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$250
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADAC$22,434
CALGARY ALLIANCE FOR THE COMMON GOODC$2,124
SOUTHWEST AREA REFUGEE MISSION SOCIETYC$1,175
BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S STREET KIDS SOCIETYC$250
CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFC$175
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$75
LUTHERAN HOSPITAL MINISTRIES - SOUTHERN ALBERTA SOCIETYC$25
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$270k · 9 repeat orgsC$14k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
7

Total granted

C$270k
C$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+10%

Still filing today

78%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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

  • AS
    ALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$236k · revenue +10%
  • CL
    Canadian Lutheran World Relief
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$14k · revenue +56%
  • LH
    Lutheran Hospital Ministries
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$3k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • LC
    Lutheran Church of Our Saviour SWARM
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k
  • LC
    LUTHERAN CAMPUS MINISTRIES
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k
  • CA
    CALGARY ALLIANCE FOR THE COMMON GOOD
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k

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
All Saints Lutheran Church Calgary Alberta

Weekly worship services for members and surrounding communities presented both online and in-person. sunday school for children aged 4 to 12. weekly spiritual learning and social activities. pastoral care and communications to members and…

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3
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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4
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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5
First Mennonite Church

The mission of First Mennonite Church is to support the Christian faith through fellowship and worship spread the Word of God and to help those in need. In Calgary we provide a place of worship Christian leadership and counseling services.…

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6
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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7
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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8
Hosanna Lutheran Church At Luther Place

Regular weekly worship services are held Sundays with additional Lenten Easter and Christmas services both in-person and live-streamed. Memorial services funerals and weddings are conducted throughout the year as required. Christian…

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9
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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10
Calgary Meals On Wheels

CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS IS A LEADER IN PROVIDING HEALTHY LOCALLY MADE MEALS TO OUR CITY 365 DAYS A YEAR. WE TAKE PRIDE IN MAKING NUTRITIOUS & AFFORDABLE MEALS FRESH FROM OUR FACILITY TO THOUSANDS OF VULNERABLE CALGARIANS EACH YEAR. OUR…

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11
Lutheran Church of the Cross

Weekly worship services christian education for children youth and adults pastoral care community outreach financial support for the alberta synod of the evangelical lutheran church in canada

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12
First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Calgary Alberta

A community church serving god through christian-centred learning including the following programs: weekly worship sunday school bible studies and prayer ministries.

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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 Brown Bagging for Calgary's Kids Society. 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

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 17 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
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 budgetALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA — C$236,036 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCanadian Lutheran World Relief — C$13,653 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Hospital Ministries — C$3,325 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST AREA REFUGEE MISSION SOCIETY — C$3,160 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$2,595 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST AREA REFUGEE MISSION — C$1,540 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S STREET KIDS SOCIETY — C$705 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustard Seed — C$310 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBethany Care Society — C$210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYLVAN LAKE LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP ASSOCIATION — C$190 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustard Seed — C$25 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.

Prince of Faith Luthe…Lutheran Church of Ou…St. John Lutheran Chu…United Way of Calgary…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Prince of Faith Lutheran ChurchAB8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Prince of Faith Lutheran Church · Lutheran Church of Our Saviour · St. John Lutheran Church · United Way of Calgary and Area · PayPal Giving Fund 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.

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 17 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 107649782:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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