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Cole Harbour, NS · Charitable organization

Real Life Ministries Association

Real Life Ministries provides students,adults,& children with weekly worship services,weekly ministries,pastoral care & counseling,supports & organizes mission trips to Asia,suppors community.

C$13k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
4
Regions reached
C$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$84k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GROVE NEIGHBOURHOOD CHURCHC$4,000
INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF CANADAC$3,500
NAVIGATORS OF CANADAC$2,000
SOVEREIGN GRACE BAPTIST CHURCHC$1,500
SOULS HARBOUR RESCUE MISSIONC$1,000
ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADAC$600
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$56k · 9 repeat orgsC$24k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
14

Total granted

C$56k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+11%

Still filing today

89%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • IC
    INTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF CANADA
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$12k · revenue +11%
  • MV
    METRO VINEYARD
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$10k · revenue +9%
  • AM
    ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$4k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • OD
    OPEN DOOR CENTRE
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +11%
  • EL
    ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · C$2k
  • MS
    MERCY SHIP
    one grant, 2020 · C$2k

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
Global Leadership Network Canada

We conducted seminars and distributed resource materials for the purpose of encouraging church health and growth through evangelism.

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2
Global Disciples Canada

We exist to preach and advance the teachings of the Christian faith and the religious tenets doctrines and observances by providing consultation instructional material curriculum development and best practices; and to propagate the…

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3
International Christian Ministries

International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…

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4
Great Commission Collective Canada

Planting churches training and coaching pastors training elders resourcing churches

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5
Training Leaders International Canada

To provide training and teaching to Christian church leaders around the world.

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6
Equip Leadership Canada

A) to provide personnel and resources for christian organizations and ministries; and b) to provide training and materials to christian leaders and individuals involved in evanglism and christian ministry worldwide

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7
Going Beyond Missions

Missionary trainings On-line and On-site mission trips Church planting trainings

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8
Ce Ministries Canada Society

Make personal email and telephone contacts with churches and organizations. train churches and leaders in evangelism. give motivational presentations to churches. attend missions conference and denominational conferences.

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9
Nli Canada

Training church leaders funding new churches short-term missions religious trips educating people across Canada recruiting volunteers to work for the church in various countries participate in religious events in Canada and researching new…

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10
To the Nations Fellowship

Itinerant evangelistic teaching worship and leadership ministry in china japan india & canada

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11
Bridges Beyond International Ministries

Training qualified leaders from around world to effectively evangelize other national christians.

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12
Christ for Your City

Local regional national and international training for leaders pastors and communities. Publications and teaching resources. Working cooperatively in the training of local regional national and international ministries individuals churches…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Navigators of Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Helm Center 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

17 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. 17 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTITUTE IN CHINA SOCIETY — C$13,900 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINTER-VARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP OF CANADA — C$12,366 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO VINEYARD — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetGROVE NEIGHBOURHOOD CHURCH — C$7,600 over 2y, 12% of budgetOPEN DOOR CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA — C$3,900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNAVIGATORS OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARCHIDIOCESE OF HALIFAX — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE ATLANTIC — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOURNEY CANADA — C$1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINDIGENOUS PATHWAYS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOULS HARBOUR RESCUE MISSION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLDEST NIGHT OF THE YEAR — C$971 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCity Centre Ministry — C$500 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetEMMANUEL BAPTIST CHURCH — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJESUS TO THE NATIONS — C$500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Rock Church Christian…Canadian National Chr…Canadahelps Canadon
Rock Church Christian AssociationNS8.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rock Church Christian Association · Canadian National Christian Foundation · 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 26 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 2023-05-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under support of religion.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 119111896:2023-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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