Lethbridge, AB · Charitable organization
One Life Church (Lethbridge)
Weekly Christian worship services- fellowship bible teaching and ministry Home fellowship meetings bible studies and seminars Pastoral care and counselling Missions support - Canada and overseas
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k7 grants · C$26k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| World Missions Continuum | C$22,500 |
| Streets Alive Family Support Assoc. | C$8,000 |
| Bridges of Hope | C$7,181 |
| First Century Foundations | C$6,000 |
| YWAM | C$1,919 |
| Blessing the Children | C$1,200 |
| Lonnie Sims Evangelistic Association | C$1,000 |
| Free Grace Fellowship | C$800 |
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 +26% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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
- SAStreets Alive Family Support Association7× · 2017–2024 · C$40k · revenue +245%
- BOBridges of Hope8× · 2017–2024 · C$26k · revenue +30%
- FCFirst Century Fundations5× · 2020–2024 · C$24k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- WCWestside Community Churchone grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue -14%
- SCSouthland Churchone grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue -52%
- AMArise Ministries of Canada (Calgary)graduatedone grant, 2020 · C$2k · revenue +129%
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) oversea and local missionaries (2) bible study (3) pastoral counselling and preaching
Weekly worship services online weekly ministries in group settings training and discipline sunday school for adults and chldren weekly praying meetings
Bible and religious teaching mentoring programs study materials seminars and workshops
Men's ministry women's ministry prayer meetings group bible study community outreach leadership trainings praise and worship trainings
Sunday Services Spreading the word of God
Outreach evangelism spiritual care and counselling
Provides counselling services retreats workshops consultation podcasting personal mentoring and christian faith formation.
Church Seminars Special Services Sunday Meetings
Bible teaching guest speaker spiritual counselling
Licensing of pastors equipping training and empowering ministers giving support to humanitarian projects
Church services programs television ministry (living truth) and global missions
Bible studies prayer meetings
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westside Community Church of Lethbridge. and the most unlike its peers is The Lethbridge Soup Kitchen Association 2013. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 22 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 Streets Alive Family Support Association ↗
- Who funds Bridges of Hope ↗
- Who funds First Century Fundations ↗
- Who funds Lonnie Sims Evangelistic Association ↗
- Who funds Joyful House of Prayer ↗
- Who funds Lethbridge Soup Kitchen ↗
- Who funds Run Free Ministries ↗
- Who funds Harvestime International Ministries ↗
- Who funds Westside Community Church ↗
- Who funds Southland Church ↗
- Who funds Arise Ministries of Canada (Calgary) ↗
- Who funds YWAM ↗
- Who funds Third Day Worship Centre ↗
- Who funds Church Renewal Inc ↗
- Who funds Blessing the Children ↗
- Who funds Samaritan's Purse Canada ↗
- Who funds Free Grace Fellowship ↗
- Who funds Weidrick & Associates ↗
- Who funds New Destiny Church ↗
- Who funds The Lighthouse ↗
- Who funds Signet Centre Ministries ↗
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: Abundance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.