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Edmonton, AB · Charitable organization

Northern Spirit Regional Council - the United Church of Canada

Provide support advice and services to Communities of Faith in the areas of human resources property archives and leadership training Provide oversight of Communities of Faith and supporting them in their life and work and ensure compliance with the policies and polity of the United Church To ordain and commission members of the…

C$206k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$111k
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$10k4 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$25k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$166k
C$8,731
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The United Church of CanadaC$111,100
Jasper United ChurchC$55,000
Athabasca United ChurchC$25,000
St. Andrew's United ChurchC$8,731
St. Andrew's Anglican ChurchC$4,500
Riverbend United ChurchC$1,000
Sherwood Park United ChurchC$950
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 14 repeat orgsC$541k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -3% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
30

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$446k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
-8%

Still filing today

86%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$95k 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

  • TU
    The United Church of Canada
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$609k · revenue +22%
  • LS
    Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$118k · revenue +13% · 74% of their budget
  • BC
    Bissell Centre
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$80k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA FOUNDATION / FONDATION DE L'ÉGLI
    one grant, 2022 · C$118k · revenue -35%
  • WB
    Wood Buffalo Food Bank Association
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue -42%
  • CC
    Canyon Church Camp Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue +207%

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
Trinity United Church

Worship Services, Bible Study Groups and Discussion Groups, Pastoral Care

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2
Trinity United Church

Weekly worship services communion weddings funerals

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3
Wyoming United Church

Weekly worship services in person and available on-line as a recording. Provide pastoral care. Donate funds to local food bank and mission funds.

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4
Foam Lake United Church

weekly worship services pastoral care outreach weddings funerals baptism fundraising

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5
Christ United Church

Worship service weekly provide Pastoral Care Prayer Circle donate funds to denomination headquarters for overseas missionary activities provide outreach in the community and area.

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6
Trinity United Church

Church services and religious activities

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7
Trinity United Church

Sunday worship

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8
Kildonan United Church

Religious activities - worship services

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9
Houston United Church

Worship services & zoom services bible studies pastoral care weddings funerals baptism.

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10
Trinity United Church

Place of worship with weekly services both in person and online religious fellowship and outreach programs pastoral care

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11
Calvin United Church

Virtual and in person weekly church services

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12
Knox United Church

Weekly worship

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is High River United Church and the most unlike its peers is Jellinek 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

49 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. 49 of the 50 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/49
Grantees still filing
19/49
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe United Church of Canada — C$609,231 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA FOUNDATION / FONDATION DE L'ÉGLI — C$117,696 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLiving Spirit United Church Drayton Valley — C$117,540 over 2y, 74% of budgetBissell Centre — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetInner City Pastoral Ministry Committee — C$67,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetJasper United Church — C$55,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetHillcrest United Church — C$51,220 over 3y, 34% of budgetWood Buffalo Food Bank Association — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCanyon Church Camp Association — C$50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH — C$47,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFort McMurray United Church — C$45,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetRalph Conner Memorial United Church — C$38,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetMcKillop United Church — C$36,250 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetChinook Winds Region - The United Church of Canada — C$33,285 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetKnox United Church — C$30,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetYellowknife United Church — C$28,059 over 2y, 14% of budgetAthabasca United Church — C$25,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCAMP WHITNEY ST PAUL PRESBYTERY — C$25,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetEDMONTON KOREAN UNITED CHURCH CONGREGATION — C$22,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetHigh River United Church — C$20,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetChristian Youth Camps Incorporated — C$19,179 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetNorthern Lights Presbytery of The United Church of Canada — C$16,469 over 2y, 14% of budgetPrairie Spirit Pastoral Charge — C$13,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetEDMONTON INTERFAITH CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND ACTION SOCIETY — C$13,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetSymons Valley United Church — C$11,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFirst United Church — C$9,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSt. Andrew's United Church — C$8,731 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetVegreville United Church — C$8,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetEDMONTON CITY CENTRE CHURCH CORPORATION — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYellowhead Presbytery — C$6,800 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSpirit West United Church — C$6,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetJELLINEK SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSt. Andrew's Anglican Church — C$4,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOORE MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH — C$1,845 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSt. Peter's Ecumenical Parish — C$1,077 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetChetwynd Shared Ministry — C$1,077 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSt John's United Anglican Church — C$1,077 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSt. Peter's Ecumenical Church — C$1,077 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCampbell-Stone United Church — C$1,077 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGrace Anglican United Church — C$1,077 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRiverbend United Church — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSherwood Park United Church — C$950 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLAIRMONT UNITED CHURCH — C$922 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSt. Andrew's United Church — C$629 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Church Rural Ministry Network — C$600 over 1y, 19% of budgetSpirit of Peace United Church — C$307 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CANADIAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES / LE CONSEIL CANADIEN DES E — C$250 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.

The United Church of …The United Church of …Property and New Chur…Chinook Winds Region …Fort McMurray United …United Way of the Alb…The Calgary FoundationThe Edmonton Communit…Atco Electric EpicCanada GivesUnited Way of Calgary…Private Giving Founda…
The United Church of CanadaON21.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The United Church of Canada · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du Canada · Property and New Church Development Council · Chinook Winds Region - The United Church of Canada · Fort McMurray United Church · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · The Calgary Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Atco Electric Epic · Canada Gives · United Way of Calgary and Area · Private Giving Foundation

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 50 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 support of religion.

Source object 118780261:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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