Sarnia, ON · Charitable organization
Redeemer Lutheran Church
Religious services; education of new members ministry to individual members including the sick and dying outreach to the community
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$33k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Inn of the Good Shepherd | C$12,000 |
| Lutheran Bible Translators of Canada | C$9,000 |
| English District of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod | C$8,500 |
| Canadian Lutheran Wold Relief | C$8,500 |
| Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots | C$4,000 |
| River City Vineyards | C$3,250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 78% of grant dollars (C$193k). The 22% that went abroad (C$53k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 22% of all-years giving (C$53k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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
- CLCanadian Lutheran World Relief8× · 2017–2024 · C$50k · revenue +56%
- IOInn of the Good Shepherd8× · 2017–2024 · C$48k · revenue +109%
- LBLutheran Bible Translators of Canada8× · 2017–2024 · C$39k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- LCLutheran Church Missouri Synodone grant, 2023 · C$8k
- LILCMS INTERNATIONAL CENTREone grant, 2019 · C$8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · C$8k
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.
We continue supporting school breakfast programs in lundas and eriksdale (lakeshore school division) harnest mb and providing food hampers to the needy.
1. provide monetary support and prepare food for the local homeless shelter and soup kitchen. 2. provide monetary support to larc (a local refugee resettlement group). 3. provided monetary support to the sarnia community foundation's…
To work in church and community by teaching and preaching god's word and administering holy sacrament according to confessional and standard evangelical lutheran church. fostering christian fellowship in church and community by divine…
Provide supports and services to persons (children and adults) with developmental and/or intellectual disabilities via the following seven programs; 1. employment counselling and job development; 2. group living residences 24 hr support;…
Provides weekly worship and Christian fellowship groups pastoral care and crisis support for students Bible Study programs leadership of faith-based housing community and supervision of Campus Centre weekly and drop-in programs. Provides a…
Worship music pastoral care outreach -outreach to needy through ministry food pantry sewing group refugee sponsorship
1. religious advancement 2. financial support for ministry to minorities in canada 3. financial support for ministry work outside of canada 4. financial support for education in theology through grants to lutheran seminaries in canada 5.…
Enabling and facilitating worship and ministry under the goal of the evangelical lutheran church of canada (elcic) and support of canadian lutheran world relief (clwr) refugee support (nest) and other social support programs (trinity food…
Provide evangelical mission support to lutheran church-canada and its member congregations
Accept and process cash donations; process food donations and give to food bank; maintain records; issue yr-end receipts; purchase gift vouchers for christmas hamper request; assist with annual drives for food donations.
Low cost housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Inn of the Good Shepherd (Sarnia ) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lutheran Bible Translators of Canada Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 Canadian Lutheran World Relief ↗
- Who funds Inn of the Good Shepherd ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Bible Translators of Canada ↗
- Who funds English District of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots ↗
- Who funds River City Vineyards ↗
- Who funds SARNIA-LAMBTON 'REBOUND' - A PROGRAM FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Neighbour Link ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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.