Airdrie, AB · Charitable organization
Lutheran Church of the Master
Worship Services Ministry Programs Pastoral Care Donate Funds to Various Charities
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$3k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELCIC Synod of Alberta & Territories | C$13,257 |
| Canada Lutheran World Relief | C$1,510 |
| Lutheran Theological Seminar | C$500 |
| Sylvan Lake Lutheran Bible Camp | C$300 |
| Wilderness Ranch | C$300 |
| World Vision Sponsorship | C$118 |
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 — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 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
- ESELCIC Synod of Alberta & Territories8× · 2017–2024 · C$87k · revenue +10%
- CLCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF6× · 2017–2024 · C$11k · revenue +56%
- WVWORLD VISION8× · 2017–2024 · C$3k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- DADISASTER AID CANADAone grant, 2018 · C$830 · revenue -38%
- SSWARMgraduatedone grant, 2022 · C$715 · revenue +644%
- SLSYLVAN LAKE LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2018 · C$300
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.
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.…
World renew conducts disaster relief and community development programs in canada and throughout the world on behalf of the christian reformed church. activites include disaster response and development programs involving health literacy…
ADRA is the global humanitarian agency of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Globally the ADRA network provides assistance to individuals in over 120 countries regardless of their ethnicity religion or political affiliation. ADRA Canada…
Islamic Relief Canada carries out humanitarian and development programs in over 30 countries. Programs include: • Livelihoods focused on climate-adaptive support and/or economic empowerment; • Health including water sanitation and hygiene…
Christian Reformed World Missions is the international evangelism ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. Activities include evangelism, discipleship, and missions programs around the world.
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…
Youth With a Mission Society (Alberta) promotes the gospel of Jesus Christ in Canada and abroad by providing opportunities to learn pray give and go for the cause of world missions. Current programs include; a 20 week discipleship training…
Luther college operates an independent boarding/day school that provides education for students from grade 9 to 12 following the saskatchewan school curriculum as well as the international baccalaureate program. luther college also…
Provide financial support in establishing new churches provide scholarships to international and canadian students for religious instruction provide financial support for training of new ministers and international missionaries provide…
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.…
ShelterBox Canada provides shelter essential items and technical assistance to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people recover and rebuild their homes after disaster. ShelterBox teams listen and adapt our support to the needs of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Lutheran World Relief and the most unlike its peers is Wilderness Ranch of Claresholm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 13 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 ELCIC Synod of Alberta & Territories ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Theological Seminar ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS RANCH ↗
- Who funds SYLVAN LAKE LUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DISASTER AID CANADA ↗
- Who funds SWARM ↗
- Who funds AIRDRIE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE CANADA INC. ↗
- Who funds AIRDRIE P.O.W.E.R. ↗
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: Lutheran Church of Our Saviour · The Calgary Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.