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Waterloo, ON · Charitable organization

Pilgrim Evangelical Lutheran Church

Weekly worship services and related activities (sunday school meetings bible studies etc.) usual activities of a church - to serve its members by providing for their spiritual needs through preaching the word of god the administration of the sacraments and the religious education of children youth and adults according to the…

C$132k
Granted FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
1
Regions reached
C$51k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$25k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$101k
C$15,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARTIN LUTHER EVANGELICAL CHURCH INC.C$51,430
LOSAARD AND INNISFREE HOSPICEC$50,000
GERMAN CANADIAN REMEMBRANCE SOCIETYC$15,000
REDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCHC$10,000
EASTERN SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADAC$5,000
LIEBENZELL MISSION OF CANADAC$100
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$690k · 7 repeat orgsC$555k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

C$690k
C$495k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+125%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$60k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
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

  • ML
    MARTIN LUTHER EVANGELICAL CHURCH INC.
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$451k · revenue +23% · 77% of their budget
  • TF
    THE FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGION
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$50k · revenue +137%
  • ES
    EASTERN SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$30k · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • GR
    GRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$200k · revenue +153%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION KITCHENER WATERLOOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$200k · revenue +125%
  • SP
    ST PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH KITCHENERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +101%

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 East District

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

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2
Trinity Lutheran Church

We hold worship services weekly visit those in the hospital and long-term care facilities conduct baptisms weddings funerals and memorial services. We financially support local charitable organizations for the homeless and underprivileged…

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3
St John's Evangelical Lutheran Church Germanicus Ontario

Weekly worship and ongoing Christian ministry to people of all ages in the Golden Lake Ontario and surrounding area. Pastoral care for shut-ins and the elderly. Financial support for local national and international mission work.

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4
St Matthews (Kitchener) Lutheran Church

St. matthews (kitchener) lutheran church is a member congregation of the eastern synod of the evangelical lutheran church of canada. the church's mission is sharing god's love as a caring faith community.

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5
Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church

We hold worship services weekly and a mid-week services during Lent. Meditation on line and in-person. We give pastoral care. We offer baptism wedding and funeral/memorial services as needed. We provide ministries for children youth and…

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6
First Lutheran Church

Conducting church worship and spreading the Word of God. Facilitating Vacation Bible School and Confirmation Class instruction for youth and adults as required. Providing Christain resources through our church website online church service…

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7
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pembroke Ontario

Weekly worship services Christian teaching for all ages Pastoral care Marriages/funerals Hospital and home visits Local/National and International mission support

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8
Canadian Lutheran World Relief

1. Provision of financial support to overseas development projects in developing countries. 2. Provision of assistance to refugees for immigration and settlement in Canada. 3. Provision of aid to disaster-stricken countries. 4. Provision…

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9
Lutheran Hospital Ministry of Northern Alberta Society

Visiting the sick. recruit and train volunteers to visit lutherans who are hospitalized to provide them with spiritual care.

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10
German Evangelical Martin Luther Church of Ottawa Inc.

Provision of religious services and pastoral care in the community

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11
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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12
Waterloo Lutheran Seminary

Waterloo lutheran seminary (wls) is accredited by the association of theological schools an international accrediting body. its degree programs are accredited buy the ontario council of graduate studies. wls offers an undergraduate degree…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church Kitchener and the most unlike its peers is Lisaard and Innisfree Hospice. 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

14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
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 budgetMARTIN LUTHER EVANGELICAL CHURCH INC. — C$451,430 over 2y, 77% of budgetGRAND RIVER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetST MARY'S GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION KITCHENER WATERLOO — C$200,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetGERMAN CANADIAN REMEMBRANCE SOCIETY — C$80,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGION — C$50,300 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLOSAARD AND INNISFREE HOSPICE — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetST PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH KITCHENER — C$50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetEASTERN SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIBERT CORNER MISSION CANADA — C$28,593 over 4y, 22% of budgetLIEBENZELL MISSION OF CANADA — C$25,100 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES CANADA — C$25,050 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOSPICE OF WATERLOO REGION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST JAMES LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$20,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetREDEEMER LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% 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…Raymond James Canada …My Tribute Gift Found…Abundance CanadaCharitable Gift Funds…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON7.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Abundance Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 14 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 2021-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 107845117:2021-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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