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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Samuel Cheng Foundation

Provide financial support for the qualified donees as defined in the income tax act.

C$284k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$134k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$40k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$234k
C$6,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY EVANGELICAL DIVINITY SCHOOLC$133,910
BLESSING CHINA MINISTRYC$50,000
THE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CANADAC$50,000
THE MEDIA EVANGELISM ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
CORNERBEND GRIEF MINISTRIES CALGARYC$6,000
WYCLIFFEC$6,000
POWER TO CHANGEC$6,000
CCCOOWE CANADAC$6,000
CARDUSC$5,000
EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF CANADAC$5,000
CHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES (CANADA) HERALD MONTHLYC$5,000
MANNA COUNSELLING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTREC$1,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 72% of grant dollars (C$336k). The 28% that went abroad (C$134k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 28% of all-years giving (C$134k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$134k · 1 grant

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$247k · 6 repeat orgsC$223k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
6

Total granted

C$247k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$205k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • PT
    POWER TO CHANGE MINISTRIES
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$70k · revenue +26%
  • W
    WYCLIFFE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$48k · revenue +23%
  • CC
    CCCOOWE CANADA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$12k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • SO
    SHOWERS OF BLESSING EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +1%
  • TG
    THE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$4k · revenue +9%
  • JF
    JEWS FOR JESUSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +107%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
China Evangelistic Mission (Canada)

We recruit send support canadian missionaries. we send regular newsletters to canadian churches & supporters. we promote missions among canadian churches & participate in mission conferences. we conduct missions workshops & share in…

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2
Chinese Overseas Christian Mission Canada

1) distribute christian literatures to evangelical churches and individuals 2) organize events to promote missionary work locally as well as in europe 3) send pastors and evangelical team to europe for long and short term missions.

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3
Ccl - Christian Communication Incorporated

Publication & distribution of religious materials. mission to china seminars. evangelistic meetings and camps theological workships and trainings.

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4
Chinese International Missions (Canada)

Provide education and encouragement to developing countries conduct seminars and provide overseas short-term mission trops to christians recruit and train missionaries to work

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5
Vancouver Chinese Evangelical Ministerial Fellowship

Coordinating chineses pastors in the greater vancouver area; planning annual bible conference in vancouver

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6
Christian Witness Ministries Inc

We publish Christian books and CDs on a regular basis. We run programs on Bible Study Sunday School and Christian Education regularly. We run programs for promoting concerns on Christian and churches in China regularly.

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7
Toronto Chinese Evangelical Ministerial Fellowship Cccwe

Toronto Chinese Evangelical Ministerial Fellowship (TCEMF) are a nonprofit organization formed by the co-workers of theChinese churches and parachurch organizations of Toronto and surrounding areas who subscribe to our Statement of Faith.…

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8
Canadian Campus Evangelical Fellowship Inc

We have returned to carry out face to face ministries such as evangelistic work fellowship activities on campus and student leadership training camps. We have maintained some online programs such as Spiritual Formation retreats and Summer…

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9
Ces China Evangelical Seminary Society

Christian education

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10
Evangelism Canada (a Christ Centred Ministry)

1. teaching and preaching 2. church planting 3. outreach 4. discipleship

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11
Chinese Evangelical Foundation of B C

Evangelical meetings

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12
Chinese Christian Mission of Canada

We send christian periodicals monthly to our subscribers across canada. we publish christian literatures and operate non-profit bookstores in our different locations across canada we send missionaries to asia for mission work eg. bible…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chineses Coordination Centre of World Evangelism (Canada) and the most unlike its peers is Manna Counseling and Educational Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE EVANGELICAL FELLOWSHIP OF CANADA — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPOWER TO CHANGE MINISTRIES — C$69,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSING CHINA MINISTRY — C$50,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetWYCLIFFE — C$48,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCCCOOWE CANADA — C$11,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSHOWERS OF BLESSING EVANGELISTIC MINISTRY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MEDIA EVANGELISM ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetEVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERBEND GRIEF MINISTRIES CALGARY — C$7,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCARDUS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD CRUSADES (CANADA) HERALD MONTHLY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWS FOR JESUS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMANNA COUNSELLING AND EDUCATIONAL CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCALGARY CHINESE EVANGELICAL MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 2.2% 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.

The Calgary Chinese G…Canadahelps Canadon
The Calgary Chinese Gospel of Grace ChurchAB8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Chinese Gospel of Grace Church · 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 18 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 2024-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 830752325:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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