Summerland, BC · Charitable organization
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Summerland British Columbia Canada
General church programs.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUMMERLAND FOOD BANK | C$6,300 |
| LUTHERAN ASSOC. OF MISSIONARIES & PILOTS | C$1,300 |
| CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | C$800 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$100 |
| THE LUTHERAN HOUR | C$100 |
| SOUTH OKANAGAN WOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY | C$50 |
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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100 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
- SFSUMMERLAND FOOD BANK2× · 2023–2024 · C$7k · revenue +10%
- CLCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF5× · 2017–2024 · C$4k · revenue +56%
- LLL.A.M.P. LUTHERAN ASSOC. OF MISSIONARIES & PILOTS2× · 2023–2024 · C$3k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SRSUMMERLAND REFUGEE SPONSORSHIP SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · C$4k · revenue -86% · 50% of their budget
- SASalvation Armygraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$221 · revenue +189%
- SFSUMMERLAND FOOD BANKone grant, 2019 · C$220
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.
1. Provide Summer Learning & After-School Learning Programs for refugee/newcomer children from grades 1-12 focusing predominately on reading writing and math. 2. Provide Sponsorship and Integration Services for refugee/newcomer families.…
To provide to the elderly at affordable costs: a) enriched living accommodations with support services; b) nursing home care with social activities and spiritual care; c) adult day care with activities; intermediate care between housing…
To provide advocacy case management financial and support services to individuals with a developmental disability. to provide support services to seniors to maintain and enhance community living. to provide pastoral care to residents of…
A- DISASTER/WAR RELIEF B- FAMILY COUSELLING C- Settlement for newcomers in Canada and providing them financial and logistic support D- HUMANITARIAN RELIEF IN SOMALIA E- SENIORS PROGRAM
1. provide regular sunday worship services. provide mid week services during lent and advent and holy week. 2. conduct religious education including sunday school and bible study. 3. conduct social ministry to people of all backgrounds. 4.…
Operating long term care nursing homes licensed care and assisted living care homes and related support programs. primarily for seniors with limited care beds for young adults.some senior housing also provided under the guidlines of the…
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…
Shelter and care of the aged infirm and disabled people of the community and fraser valley with funding from the province of british columbia via fraser health authority under the continuing care program.
Providing logistical and financial assistance to access housing education counselling and other support service for immigrants evacuees and refugees in need including language instruction employment training job searches transportation and…
Affordable housing for seniors low-income & those with disabilities
1) Provide accommodation and settlement services for new immigrants and refugees 2) Provide ESL training for new immigrants refugees and students 3) Provide employment assistance and training services to immigrants and refugees 4) Provide…
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.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Church-Canada and the most unlike its peers is Penticton Recovery Resource Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 SUMMERLAND FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds SUMMERLAND REFUGEE SPONSORSHIP SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds L.A.M.P. LUTHERAN ASSOC. OF MISSIONARIES & PILOTS ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SOUTH OKANAGAN WOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Salvation Army ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CHURCH CANADA ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN LAYMAN'S LEAGUE ↗
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.