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Waterloo, ON · Charitable organization

Redeemer Lutheran Church

Article 2 of our constitution and by-laws reads: the purpose of this congregation shall be to serve its members and to spead the kingdom of god by preaching the word of god administration of the sacraments and by religious instruction of youth and adults according to the confessional standard of the lutheran church and to foster…

C$40k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$40k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$39,861
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$352k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUTHERAN CHURCH CANADAC$39,861
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$459k · 5 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

C$459k
C$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • LC
    LUTHERAN CHURCH CANADA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$393k · revenue +33% · 44% of their budget
  • CL
    Canadian Lutheran World Relief
    2× · 2017–2022 · C$1k · revenue +56%
  • SP
    St Paul's Lutheran Church
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$925 · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • HL
    HAITI LUTHERAN MISSION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k
  • CL
    Canadian Lutheran Bible Translatorsgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$400 · revenue +41%
  • CL
    Concordia Lutheran Mission Society Inc
    one grant, 2017 · C$350 · revenue -32%

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.

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Concordia Lutheran Seminary

Concordia lutheran seminary is an institution of theological higher education dedicated primarily to the preparation of students for he pastoral ministry of lutheran church-canada and beyond. concordia lutheran seminary a seminary of…

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2
Lutheran Church - Canada Central District

Congregational encouragement and support pastor and deacon support mission development synodical support education.

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3
Christ Lutheran Church Langenburg
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4
Lutheran Church-Canada

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.…

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5
Lutheran Theological Seminary

Lutheran theological seminary educates pastors students and lay leaders of the evangelical lutheran church in canada. this education leads to the following degrees and certificates: doctor of ministry for those already ordained for…

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6
Living Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church

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…

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7
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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8
Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations/L'associationcanadienne Des CongrÉGations LuthÉRiennes

The Association is a national church body comprised of Canadian member congregations and individuals. The Association unites serves equips encourages and empowers congregations and individuals who share a common belief. The association…

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9
Institute of Lutheran Theology Canada Society

Provide theological education to canadian students via the institute of lutheran theology

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10
Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The Synod is shepherd to Lutheran congregations in Alberta Yukon and NT. It provides financial and other support for outreach programs ofcongregations as well as counsel and guidance to about 200 pastors through the Bishop of the Synod.…

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11
Latvian Lutheran Congregation

Supporting other charities through donations

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12
Living Word Lutheran Church

Worship preaching evangelism delivery of sacraments asministration & leadership

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Concordia Lutheran Mission Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is FOOD4KIDS Waterloo Region. 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
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 budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH CANADA — C$392,701 over 7y, 44% of budgetLutheran Church Canada - East District — C$63,095 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCanadian Lutheran World Relief — C$1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt Paul's Lutheran Church — C$925 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFood 4 Kids — C$917 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Lutheran Bible Translators — C$400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConcordia Lutheran Mission Society Inc — C$350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UTHERAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — C$80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF K-W REGION — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Faith Lutheran Church…Holy Cross Evangelica…Lutheran Church-CanadaMy Tribute Gift Found…Canadahelps Canadon
Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener)ON9.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener) · Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kitchener · Lutheran Church-Canada · My Tribute Gift 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 11 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 130331168:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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