Ponoka, AB · Charitable organization
Parkland Reformed Church of Ponoka
Two worship services on every sunday with occasional evening services tuesday night catechism classes various bible study groups july vacation bible study program
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k10 grants · C$21k
- C$10k–50k13 grants · C$310k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$212k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT REFORMED CHURCH OF SASKATOON | C$161,502 |
| BETHEL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH OF CALGARY | C$50,194 |
| MID AMERICA REFORMED SEMINARY | C$40,991 |
| UNITED REFORMED MISSIONS | C$37,358 |
| PONOKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL | C$36,515 |
| WORD & DEED MINISTRIES | C$36,434 |
| HOPE ACADEMY MISSION SCHOOL | C$31,257 |
| BROOMTREE FOUNDATION | C$23,424 |
| VOICE OF THE MARTYRS | C$18,499 |
| REHOBOTH CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES | C$17,871 |
| TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH OF LETHBRIDGE | C$14,871 |
| CENTRAL ALBERTA PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE | C$14,789 |
| COVENANT REFORMED CHURCH OF TORONTO | C$13,480 |
| REDEMPTION PRISON MINISTRY | C$12,835 |
| CENTRAL ALBERTA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL | C$11,807 |
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 +52% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$251k 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
- WDWORD & DEED MINISTRIES8× · 2017–2024 · C$462k · revenue +67%
- MAMID AMERICA REFORMED SEMINARY8× · 2017–2024 · C$352k · revenue +75%
- BUBETHEL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH OF CALGARY8× · 2017–2024 · C$148k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- LCLacombe Christian Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$200 · revenue +39%
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.
Provide academic training for the ministry of the gospel
The ministry preached the Gospel of Jesus Christ through Canada and runs education programs as a K-12 school.
Ccrtc is committed to providing teacher training in accordance with biblical principles as summarized in the confessions of the canadian reformed churches. in addition the college seeks to serve associated schools by providing…
Operating an integrated christian school for students from pre-school through grade 12 following the saskatchewan curriculum. providing education with a focus on bible church history and christian ethics. offering limited opportunities to…
Preach the word of god catechisim instruction vacation bible school assisting people in need issue disbursement to seminary students
Christian Reformed World Missions is the international evangelism ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. Activities include evangelism, discipleship, and missions programs around the world.
Christian University Education
Training for christian ministry through undergraduate and graduate training.
Provides ongoing tuition fees for students. Provides continuing education for ministers. Support education of lay leaders.
Promote the Christian faith through church planting preaching/teaching in local churches teaching in bible schools serve as a Christian denomination registered in the Province of Ontario.
Regina christian school association operates an independent school accredited by the saskatchewan ministry of education as an associated school of the regina public school board. the school offers programs from pre-school through grade 12.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethel United Reformed Church of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Ponoka Christian School Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 of the 31 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 WORD & DEED MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds MID AMERICA REFORMED SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ALBERTA PREGNANCY CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BETHEL UNITED REFORMED CHURCH OF CALGARY ↗
- Who funds PONOKA CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REHOBOTH CHRISTIAN MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF THE MARTYRS ↗
- Who funds THUNDER BAY UNITED REFORMED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ALBERTA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COVENANT REFORMED CHURCH OF TORNOTO ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTION PARISH MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds COVENANT CHRISTIAN CHURCH MISSION OUTREACH (HOPE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS ↗
- Who funds FOOD GRAINS BANK ↗
- Who funds REDEMPTION PRISON MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY REFORMED CHURCH OF LETHBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EASTERN REFORMED FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ALBERTA CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE BURSARY FUND ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHRISTIAN ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SASKATOON CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SASKATCHEWAN FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds WARMAN FOOD BANK C/O AWAKENING CHURCH ↗
- Who funds Lacombe Christian School ↗
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: Redeemer United Reformed Church · Christian Stewardship Services · Cornerstone United Reformed Church of Edmonton · Bethel United Reformed Church of Calgary · Covenant United Reformed Church Inc. · Providence Reformed Church of Winnipeg Inc. · Immanuel Covenant Reformed Church · Faith Reformed Church of Telkwa (Urc-Na) · United Reformed Church of Thunder Bay · Emmanuel Reformed Church of Neerlandia · Bethel Reformed Church of Smithers B.C. · Trinity United Reformed Church of St. Catharines
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.