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Waterloo, ON · Charitable organization

Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waterloo

Christian church providing christian outreach to our congregation our community and our world through programs and financial contributions

C$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$26k
C$500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$705k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADAC$25,708
KITCHENERWATERLOO MULTICULTURAL CENTRE INCC$2,600
SHOW(SUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOO)C$1,330
K-W FOOD BANKC$840
CANADIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHESC$500
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$100
ST. MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCHC$100
HABITAT FOR HUMANITYC$85
HOSPICE WATERLOO REGIONC$50
PARENTS FOR COMMUNITY LIVINGC$50
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$262k · 11 repeat orgsC$9k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

C$262k
C$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+52%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$700 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

  • KM
    KITCHENERWATERLOO MULTICULTURAL CENTRE INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$10k · revenue +24%
  • KF
    K-W FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$10k · revenue +137%
  • MP
    Marillac Place
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$3k · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • EW
    ECUMENICAL WELCOMING PARTNERSHIP (CANADIAN LUTERAN WORLD RELgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +56%
  • RO
    REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)graduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue +183%
  • KW
    K-W WORKING CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$200 · revenue +35%

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.

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United Way Waterloo Region Communities

United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve. We are the largest funder of social programs in Waterloo Region second only to government. We are…

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2
Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre Waterloo Wellington

Client centred visiting health and support services to eligible clients of all ages in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Information and assistance to persons who require placement in a long term facility. Simplified access to…

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3
Lutherwood

In operation since 1970 Lutherwood offers a range of mental health and social service programs in Waterloo Region and Guelph-Wellington County. We provide the following: • We help children and their families work through mental health…

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4
Heartwood Place

Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo

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5
Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

Provide information and referral of social services Undertake social research Provide support and services for the charitable sector Our primary pillars are Housing & Homelessness Grassroots Infrastructure and Lived Expertise. Our service…

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6
Supportive Housing of Waterloo

SHOW's mission is to collaboratively provide housing and a continuum of supports to those who have experienced homelessness and encountered barriers to achieving their fundamental right to safe and affordable housing. SHOW is dedicated to…

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7
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region

Emergency shelter services - provide emergency shelter for abused women and children crisis phone counselling - provide over the phone counselling to abused women and children crisis support - provide short term financial suppoer to abused…

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8
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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9
Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region Employ
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10
Reception House - Waterloo Region Inc.

Reception house - waterloo region is established to provide temporary accomodation education counselling and other support services for refugees and government assisted refugees in need arriving in the regional municipality of waterloo.…

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11
Community Justice Initiatives of Waterloo Region

Community mediation and dialogue services sexual harm services youth and adult serious crime dialogue Stride services supporting incarcerated women family dialogues elder dialogue and support services. Homesharing Justice Centre - creating…

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12
Victim Services of Waterloo Region

Victim services of waterloo region believes every victim has the right to heal from a crime or tragic circumstance. our programs create opportunities foster hope and promote safer and healthier communities.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice of Waterloo Region and the most unlike its peers is Scouts Canada. 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. 19 of the 20 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
12/19
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEvangelical Lutheran Church of Canada — C$219,777 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetKITCHENERWATERLOO MULTICULTURAL CENTRE INC — C$10,452 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetK-W FOOD BANK — C$10,061 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetECUMENICAL WELCOMING PARTNERSHIP (CANADIAN LUTERAN WORLD REL — C$5,127 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarillac Place — C$2,923 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$2,686 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetREACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) — C$2,410 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$1,638 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY VILLAGE - LUHERAN HOMES KITCHENER-WATERLOO — C$775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCOUTS CANADA — C$330 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALTZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$285 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST.MATTEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK-W WORKING CENTRE — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE WATERLOO REGION — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInnisfree House — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart & Stroke — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS FOR COMMUNITY LIVING — C$50 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…United Way Waterloo R…Abundance CanadaThe Roman Catholic Ep…The Congregation of t…Blue Sea Philanthropy…Youth and Philanthrop…St Paul's Evangelical…Creekside ChurchThe Savvas Chamberlai…Astley Family Foundat…United Way of Kitchen…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON11.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Abundance Canada · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · The Congregation of the Resurrection in Ontario · Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc. · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church · Creekside Church · The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation · Astley Family Foundation · United Way of Kitchener-Waterloo and Area

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 20 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 107727927:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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