Winnipeg, MB · Charitable organization
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Winnipeg
Covid 19 - only 1 in person service.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN SEMINARY SASKATOON | C$30,450 |
| ASCENSION LUTHERAN CHURCH | C$13,500 |
| LUTHER HOME | C$5,000 |
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.
5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$14k 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
- LSLUTHERAN SEMINARY SASKATOON4× · 2017–2022 · C$95k · revenue -30%
- MSMNO SYNOD3× · 2018–2020 · C$45k · revenue -72%
- CCLWR3× · 2017–2021 · C$31k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- LVLUTHER VILLAGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$24k · revenue +135%
- OSOPERATION SMILEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue +42%
- LVLuther Villageone grant, 2018 · C$18k · revenue -20%
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. 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.…
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.…
Receipt of various planned charitable gifts in favour of the organization from donors. the organization establishes and administers giving programs to encourage direct gifts bequests endowments and legacies to the organization. realized…
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…
Provide theological education to canadian students via the institute of lutheran theology
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…
Fund raising activities in saskatchewan to support the mission of lutheran sunset home of saskatoon to provide excellence in care shelter and support in a nurturing christian environment.
Provide evangelical mission support to lutheran church-canada and its member congregations
Luther college operates an independent boarding/day school that provides education for students from grade 9 to 12 following the saskatchewan school curriculum as well as the international baccalaureate program. luther college also…
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…
Raise funds for overseas mission projects of lutheran church - canada
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grace Lutheran Church and the most unlike its peers is Canadahelps Canadon. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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 LUTHERAN SEMINARY SASKATOON ↗
- Who funds MNO SYNOD ↗
- Who funds CLWR ↗
- Who funds LUTHER VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE ↗
- Who funds Luther Village ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Urban Ministry ↗
- Who funds STARS ↗
- Who funds WPG CHILDREN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FOOD PANTRY/GRACE LUTHERAN ↗
- Who funds Luther Home ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ↗
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: The Winnipeg Foundation · Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc. · All Charities Campaign · 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.