Pembroke, ON · Charitable organization
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Pembroke Ontario
Weekly worship services Christian teaching for all ages Pastoral care Marriages/funerals Hospital and home visits Local/National and International mission support
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k11 grants · C$20k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| English District of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod | C$17,063 |
| Canadian Lutheran World Relief | C$6,080 |
| Lutheran Bible Translators | C$3,785 |
| St. Joseph's Food Bank | C$3,210 |
| First Step Options | C$2,849 |
| Lutheran Association of Missionaries & Pilots | C$1,735 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$945 |
| Concordia Lutheran Mission Society | C$680 |
| Lutheran Women's Missionary League | C$445 |
| Petawawa Pantry | C$265 |
| Lutheran Laymen's League | C$115 |
| The Grind Pembroke | C$80 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 78% of grant dollars (C$287k). The 22% that went abroad (C$80k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 22% of all-years giving (C$80k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +147% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$945 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
- EDEnglish District, Missouri Synod, Lutheran Church7× · 2017–2024 · C$155k · revenue +762% · 52% of their budget
- CLCanadian Lutheran World Relief8× · 2017–2024 · C$51k · revenue +56%
- LALutheran Associaion of Missionaries & Pilots8× · 2017–2024 · C$32k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- EDEnglish District, Missouri Synod, Lutheran Churchone grant, 2018 · C$32k
- WTWorld Team Canadaone grant, 2017 · C$2k · revenue -21%
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.
Provide evangelical mission support to lutheran church-canada and its member congregations
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.…
Provide financial support in establishing new churches provide scholarships to international and canadian students for religious instruction provide financial support for training of new ministers and international missionaries provide…
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…
Worship music pastoral care outreach -outreach to needy through ministry food pantry sewing group refugee sponsorship
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…
In our quest to spread the gospel of jesus christ we provide the following: 1. operating assistance and administrative guidance to our mission congregations 2. educational grants to canadian students pursuing a christian education 3.…
Worship services pastoral care sunday school food bank funds donated to missionary activities
Recruit train and send missionaries teachers medical personnel technicians and other personnel who are qualified to support and/or establish and develop national churches. Provide pastoral care to immigrant and non-immigrants in Canada.…
Congregational encouragement and support pastor and deacon support mission development synodical support education.
Place of worship learning teaching and outreach according to the gospel. activities in support of church and congregation ; food/clothing programs; donations to organizations in support of those affected by disaster/poverty / war;…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Women's Missionary League - Canada Inc and the most unlike its peers is First Step Options. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 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 English District, Missouri Synod, Lutheran Church ↗
- Who funds Canadian Lutheran World Relief ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Associaion of Missionaries & Pilots ↗
- Who funds St. Joseph's Food Bank ↗
- Who funds First Step Options ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Laymans League ↗
- Who funds The Grind Pembroke ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Women's Missionary League ↗
- Who funds World Team Canada ↗
- Who funds Concordia Lutheran Mission Society ↗
- Who funds Petawawa Pantry ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Christ Lutheran Church · St. Luke's Anglican Church Pembroke · Resurrection Lutheran Church Pembroke · Zion Christian Reformed Church of Pembroke · Ottawa Valley Community Foundation · Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.