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Waterloo, ON · Charitable organization

Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church

Teach and preach the word of God to all ages in the Lakeshore Village of Waterloo and surrounding region which includes worship services Bible studies Sunday School visitations Evangelism Christian fellowship Weddings Baptisms and Funerals.

C$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$6,280
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Lutheran Church - CanadaC$6,280
Redeemer Lutheran ChurchC$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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$80k · 12 repeat orgsC$2k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
4

Total granted

C$80k
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+71%

Still filing today

58%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10 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

  • LC
    LUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADA
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$41k · revenue +114%
  • LL
    LUTHERAN LAYMEN'S LEAGUE OF CANADA
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$2k · revenue +55%
  • LA
    Lutheran Association of Missionaries & Pilots Inc.
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$2k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CL
    CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$570 · revenue +64%
  • BM
    BC MISSION BOAT SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$500 · revenue -8%
  • GL
    Guelph Lutheran Outreach - Bethel Lutheran Churchgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$500 · revenue +72%

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 Theological Seminary

Lutheran theological seminary educates pastors students and lay leaders of the evangelical lutheran church in canada. this education leads to the following degrees and certificates: doctor of ministry for those already ordained for…

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2
Institute of Lutheran Theology Canada Society

Provide theological education to canadian students via the institute of lutheran theology

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3
Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations/L'associationcanadienne Des CongrÉGations LuthÉRiennes

The Association is a national church body comprised of Canadian member congregations and individuals. The Association unites serves equips encourages and empowers congregations and individuals who share a common belief. The association…

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4
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of Canada Inc.

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…

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5
Lutheran East District

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

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6
Lutheran Church - Canada Central District

Congregational encouragement and support pastor and deacon support mission development synodical support education.

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7
Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute

The canadian lutheran bible institute (clbi) is a discipleship training centre. we are biblical confessional and evengelical embracing christ's great commission. our mission is to train equip and empower servant-leaders of all ages within…

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8
Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries

Receipt of various planned charitable gifts in favour of the organization from donors. the organization establishes and administers giving programs to encourage direct gifts bequests endowments and legacies to the organization. realized…

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9
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

At the National Office of the ELCIC we develop policies and standards for rostered leaders and worship public policies for the church in society and resources for stewardship and worship. We work in partnership with Lutheran and ecumenical…

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10
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations Inc.

Provide assistance to existing congregations in canada. organize annual conference and pastors retreat. provide assistance to missionairies. provide bursaries to students in bible college or seminary.

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11
Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The Synod is shepherd to Lutheran congregations in Alberta Yukon and NT. It provides financial and other support for outreach programs ofcongregations as well as counsel and guidance to about 200 pastors through the Bishop of the Synod.…

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12
The North-American Lutheran Church - Canada Section
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Church-Canada and the most unlike its peers is B.C. Mission Boat 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

12 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. 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
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$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADA — C$41,480 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCorncordia Lutheran Mission Society — C$3,701 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLUTHERAN LAYMEN'S LEAGUE OF CANADA — C$1,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Association of Missionaries & Pilots Inc. — C$1,530 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Bible Translators - Canada — C$1,510 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$1,385 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN WOMEN'S MISSION LEAGUE — C$570 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY — C$570 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBC MISSION BOAT SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGuelph Lutheran Outreach - Bethel Lutheran Church — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — C$20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRedeemer Lutheran Church — C$10 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.

First St Paul's Luthe…Lutheran Church - Can…Foothills Lutheran Ch…Lutheran Church-CanadaFaith Lutheran ChurchImmanuel Lutheran Chu…Hope Lutheran Church …Holy Cross Evangelica…Christ Our King Luthe…Good Shepherd Luthera…Prince of Peace Luthe…St Peter's Lutheran C…
First St Paul's Lutheran ChurchON13.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: First St Paul's Lutheran Church · Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries · Foothills Lutheran Church of Calgary · Lutheran Church-Canada · Faith Lutheran Church · Immanuel Lutheran Church · Hope Lutheran Church Port Coquitlam · Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kitchener · Christ Our King Lutheran Church · Good Shepherd Lutheran Church · Prince of Peace Lutheran Church · St Peter's Lutheran 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.

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 119039030:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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