Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Shepherd King Lutheran Church
weekly worship services outreach events/projects pastoral care - we rent space to other congregations and to approved non-profit community groups/organizations - we live-stream our Sunday worship services
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTH AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH - CANADA SECTION | C$8,500 |
| HOME SPACE SOCIETY | C$535 |
| LUTHERAN HOSPITAL MINISTRIES | C$500 |
| LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS | C$200 |
| CALGARY FOOD BANK | C$170 |
| CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | C$30 |
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 +80% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- NANORTH AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH - CANADA SECTION8× · 2017–2024 · C$61k · revenue +329%
- LHLutheran Hospital Ministries8× · 2017–2024 · C$5k · revenue +84%
- CHCalgary Homeless Foundation5× · 2017–2021 · C$5k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- AIAction International Ministriesone grant, 2018 · C$4k · revenue +4%
- KCKuwala Christian Girls Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$3k · revenue +71%
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.
Christian ministry and outreach
Promotion and protection of health including advocacy and education in continuing care acute care and affordable housing.
Provide affordable housing for seniors and person with disabilities including homelessness
Neighborhood church ministering to people in the area of calgary alberta
Visiting the sick. recruit and train volunteers to visit lutherans who are hospitalized to provide them with spiritual care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is Kuwala Christian Girls School 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 9 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 NORTH AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH - CANADA SECTION ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Hospital Ministries ↗
- Who funds Calgary Homeless Foundation ↗
- Who funds Action International Ministries ↗
- Who funds Kuwala Christian Girls School ↗
- Who funds Calgary Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Home Space Society ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
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.