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Saskatoon, SK · Charitable organization

Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc.

The Saskatchewan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) and its Bishop provide pastoral care for ELCIC rostered and diaconal ministers and nurture ELCIC congregations within the boundaries of the Saskatchewan Synod.

C$239k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$20k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$170k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$9,741
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St. Olaf Lutheran ChurchC$50,000
Canadian Lutheran World ReliefC$46,900
Evangelical Lutheran Church in CanadaC$37,905
Lutheran Campus Ministry SaskatoonC$26,416
Lutheran Theological Seminary of Saskatoon SaskatchewanC$23,373
The Micah MissionC$20,000
Indian Metis Christian Fellowship Inc.C$15,000
Lutheran Care Society of Saskatoon Inc.C$9,741
Kinasao Lutheran Bible CampC$4,805
Prairie Centre for EcumenismC$2,000
Lutheran Collegiate Bible InstituteC$976
Luther College ReginaC$701
On Eagle's Wings Ecumenical MinistriesC$515
Our Savior's Lutheran Church of ReginaC$400
Luthercare Foundation Inc.C$360
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.1M · 18 repeat orgsC$159k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
14

Total granted

C$2.1M
C$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
-2%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • EL
    EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$591k · revenue +39% · 27% of their budget
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$387k · revenue +56%
  • TL
    Trinity Lutheran Church
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$169k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • ZL
    Zion Lutheran Church
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue -2% · 29% of their budget
  • ZL
    Zion Lutheran Church
    one grant, 2023 · C$17k · revenue +12%
  • ML
    Messiah Lutheran Church
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue -39%

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
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lemberg Saskatchewan

We support the programs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada by working serving witnessing and learning. Our congregation of baptized members proclaim the word of God and minister to each other and the community.

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2
Lutheran Institutional Ministry-Edmonton
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3
Christ Lutheran Church Langenburg
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4
Living Word Lutheran Church

Worship preaching evangelism delivery of sacraments asministration & leadership

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5
Christ Lutheran Church

Weekly Sunday Services Sunday School Baptism and ELW Bible Studies confirmation classes

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6
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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7
Grace Lutheran Church Saskatoon Incorporated
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8
Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church of Middle Lake Sask.

Weekly Services Sunday school VBS Services at rest home Visitations Bible studies

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9
First Saskatchewan Lutheran Church Inc.

To minister the word of god through sunday worship services sacrements of baptism holy communion confirmation and through sunday school youth groups weddings and funerals.

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10
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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11
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saskatoon Inc.

Worship services are held weekly. Ministry services to seniors children young adults and families. Missions are supported in the community and abroad.

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12
Trinity Lutheran Church

Conduct weekly religous services in accordance with lutheran church canada

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Messiah Lutheran Church and the most unlike its peers is The Micah Mission Inc.. 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

36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
20/36
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 budgetEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA — C$590,526 over 8y, 27% of budgetLutheran Theological Seminary — C$477,178 over 7y, 11% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$386,739 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetTrinity Lutheran Church — C$168,609 over 4y, 24% of budgetLutheran Care Society of Saskatoon Inc. — C$163,009 over 7y, 11% of budgetLutheran Campus Ministry Saskatoon — C$115,334 over 8y, 77% of budgetZion Lutheran Church — C$100,020 over 1y, 29% of budgetSt. Olaf Lutheran Church — C$51,800 over 2y, 16% of budgetIndian Metis Christian Fellowship Inc. — C$45,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$35,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetThe Micah Mission — C$20,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetZion Lutheran Church — C$16,900 over 1y, 10% of budgetPRAIRIE CENTRE FOR ECUMENISM — C$14,000 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetKinasao Lutheran Bible Camp — C$10,642 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMessiah Lutheran Church — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetLUTHERAN COLLEGIATE BIBLE INSTITUTE — C$7,469 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRedeemer Lutheran Church Saskatoon — C$5,982 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLUTHER COLLEGE REGINA — C$4,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetON EAGLE'S WINGS ECUMENICAL MINISTRIES INC. — C$2,696 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE — C$1,749 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetChrist Lutheran Church — C$1,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEden Care Suites Inc. — C$1,262 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLuthercare Foundation Inc. — C$1,250 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc. — C$1,215 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZion Lutheran Church Canwood Inc. — C$800 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetResurrection Lutheran Church — C$800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMCC Saskatchewan — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOur Savior's Lutheran Church of Regina — C$400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMessiah Lutheran Church of Assiniboia Inc. — C$400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEstevan Trinity Lutheran Church — C$400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetL.A.M.P. Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots Inc — C$165 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Canadian Red Cross Society — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Bible Society — 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.

Zion Evangelical Luth…The Augustana Evangel…CharitusTrinity Evangelical L…Redeemer Evangelical …Alberta Synod Evangel…Saskatoon Community F…Evangelical Lutheran …Episcopal Corporation…Carrot River Valley L…Messiah Lutheran Chur…Central Evangelical L…
Zion Evangelical Lutheran CongregationSK14.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation · The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saskatoon Saskatchewan · Charitus · Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church · Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church · Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · Saskatoon Community Foundation · Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · Episcopal Corporation of Saskatoon · Carrot River Valley Lutheran Church · Messiah Lutheran Church of Assiniboia Inc. · Central Evangelical Lutheran Church of Regina

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 34 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 130739865:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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