Mission, BC · Charitable organization
Presbytery of Westminster
The PRESBYTERY OF WESTMINSTER is the supervising court ('bishop') for congregations ministers and ministries of the presbyterian church in canada in the vancouver and fraser valley area.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$19k
- C$10k–50k12 grants · C$140k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$58k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMMINGBIRD MINISTRY | C$58,000 |
| BRENTWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$30,000 |
| FIRST HUNGARIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| HANEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| CALVIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| LANGLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| ST. ANDREW'S & ST. STEPHEN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| ST. PAUL'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| WEST VANCOUVER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| ST. ANDREW'S-NEWTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| BRADNER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| RICHMOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| COOKES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$8,000 |
| GORDON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | C$5,000 |
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 +104% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 14 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, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$153k 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
- HMHUMMINGBIRD MINISTRY8× · 2017–2024 · C$278k · revenue +139% · 30% of their budget
- SOSynod of British Columbia5× · 2017–2024 · C$43k · revenue +104% · 93% of their budget
- KPKNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH2× · 2022–2023 · C$12k · revenue ×53
Funded once
- COCHURCH ON THE ROADone grant, 2023 · C$10k
- CHCRIEFF HILLS COMMUNITYgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +27%
- VSVancouver Shepherds House Ministriesone grant, 2017 · C$2k
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.
Providing worship services to christians
Providing worship services weekly
Sunday worship
Weekly Sunday Christian worship services bible study support of mission work locally and through National Church local Christian outreach and fellowship Monthly community breakfast program
Provide regular worship for the church members
We hold weekly services of worship
Supports the work of the presbyterian church in canada through its sunday worship services and sunday school
Worship services
Weekly worship programs online and in-person. provide pastoral care and programs for children
Regular sunday services sunday school and nursery pastoral care bible study prebyterian world services and development presbyterians sharing meals-on-wheels community kitchen.
Church: - english service mandarin service cantonese service english bible study mandarin bible study cantonese bible study sunday school
Supporting the work of the presbyterian church in canada with programs for religious and spiritual guidance including: -weekly church services -weekly bible studies -sunday school -community outreach
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Andrews Newton Presbyterian Church and the most unlike its peers is Industrial Areas Foundation Canada. 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 28 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 HUMMINGBIRD MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds Synod of British Columbia ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds VANCOUVER SHEPERDS HOUSE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds KNOX PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds CAMP DOUGLAS ↗
- Who funds HANEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ST. ANDREW'S-NEWTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds LANGLEY PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ST. ANDREW'S & ST. STEPHEN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds WEST VANCOUVER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds FIRST HUNGARIAN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds BRADNER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds CALVIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ST. PAUL'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds RICHMOND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds COOKES PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds METRO VANCOUVER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GORDON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds CRIEFF HILLS COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds ST. AIDAN'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA ↗
- Who funds KAIROS CANADA (UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA) ↗
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: The Trustee Board of the Presbyterian Church in Canada · United Way British Columbia · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.