Lumsden, SK · Charitable organization
Shepherd of the Valley Lutheran Church
Religious worship services; teaching/instruction/religious education through bible study confirmation & sunday school programs.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLAIN & VALLEY ANGLICAN PAIRSH - ALL SAINTS HALO PROJECT | C$1,803 |
| ELCIC - SASK SYNOD | C$1,750 |
| CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | C$703 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | C$600 |
| LUMIDEN & DISTRICT HERITAGE HOME | C$500 |
| LUTHER COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | C$250 |
| TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH PANTRY | C$150 |
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 +20% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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
- ESELCIC - SK SYNOD7× · 2017–2024 · C$12k · revenue +20%
- WBWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS8× · 2017–2024 · C$6k · revenue +23%
- LDLUMSDEN & DISTRICT HERITAGE HOME8× · 2017–2024 · C$4k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- PVPLAIN & VALLEY ANGLICAN PARISH- ALL SAINTS HALO PROJECTone grant, 2023 · C$2k
- ESELCIC-SK SYNODone grant, 2021 · C$2k
- GEGREATER EUROPE MISSIONone grant, 2018 · C$586 · revenue +13%
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.
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.…
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.
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…
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.…
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…
Provide evangelical mission support to lutheran church-canada and its member congregations
At the National Office of the ELCIC we develop policies and standards for rostered leaders and worship public policies for the church in society and resources for stewardship and worship. We work in partnership with Lutheran and ecumenical…
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…
To provide religious instruction
The synod co-ordinates with the national church elcic on church affairs. the synod operates a synod administration centre supporting the regular functions of the evangelical lutheran church in bc. the synod also oversees congregations…
Congregational encouragement and support pastor and deacon support mission development synodical support education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Lumsden & District Heritage Home Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 ELCIC - SK SYNOD ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD OF THE VALLEY LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS ↗
- Who funds LUMSDEN & DISTRICT HERITAGE HOME ↗
- Who funds Canadian Lutheran World Relief ↗
- Who funds PLAIN & VALLEY ANGLICAN PAIRSH - ALL SAINTS HALO PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LUTHER COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN COLLEGIATE BIBLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRINITY LUTHERIAN CHURCH PANTRY ↗
- Who funds GREATER EUROPE MISSION ↗
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.
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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.