Calgary, AB · Public foundation
Lutheran Triune Education and Benevolent Society of Calgary
Supporting the work of the alberta synod of the evangelical lutheran church in canada their instructions and agencies by funding project and activities not covered by the operating budget of the organizations.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$5k
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA | C$20,000 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH OF THE CRASS | C$10,000 |
| ALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA | C$10,000 |
| REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH | C$2,500 |
| TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | C$2,300 |
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 +4% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k 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
- ASALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA7× · 2017–2024 · C$141k · revenue +10%
- SLSylvan Lake Lutheran Bible Camp Association3× · 2017–2021 · C$47k · revenue +89%
- FEFirst Evangelical Lutheran Church of Calgary, Alberta3× · 2017–2019 · C$32k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- ASALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADAone grant, 2020 · C$40k
- HSHOLY SPIRIT LUTHERAN CHURCHgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$13k · revenue +34%
- TETRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -25%
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.
We support the programs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada by working serving witnessing and learning. Our congregation of baptized members proclaim the word of God and minister to each other and the community.
Hold weekly worship services provide various ministries to the congregation provide pastoral care activities for youth adult education
Conduct weekly religous services in accordance with lutheran church canada
Church Services Sunday school Bible Study
Church Organization providing worship and spiritual support to members of the congregation
Worship preaching evangelism delivery of sacraments asministration & leadership
Weekly worship bible study sunday school vacation bible school community outreach pastoral care
Public worship services bible studies religious education outreach ministries.
Weekly Sunday Services Sunday School Baptism and ELW Bible Studies confirmation classes
To be a caring spiritually growing and family oriented congregation promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ through discipleship contemporary worship and community service.
Place of worship
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is On Eagle's Wings Ecumenical Ministries Inc. / Les Ministeres Oecumeniques Sur Les Ailes De L'aigle Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 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.
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 ALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds Sylvan Lake Lutheran Bible Camp Association ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Church of the Cross ↗
- Who funds First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Calgary, Alberta ↗
- Who funds ON EAGLE'S WINGS ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC. ↗
- Who funds EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA ↗
- Who funds HOLY SPIRIT LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds Highwood Lutheran Church ↗
- Who funds Manitoba-Northwestern Ontario Synod of the ELCIC ↗
- Who funds REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds Mount Zion Lutheran Church ↗
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: Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · St. John Lutheran Church · Charitus · Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church · Holy Spirit Lutheran Church · Hope Lutheran Church · Lutheran Church of Our Saviour · Bawlf Lutheran Church · Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Canadahelps Canadon · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.