Wellesley, ON · Charitable organization
St Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Advancement of religion.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLESLEY MENNONITE CHURCH ( FOR WELLESLEY COMMUNITY FOOD CU | C$4,032 |
| EASTERN SYNOD OF THE ELCIC | C$3,335 |
| ONE ROOF YOUTH SERVICES | C$1,290 |
| CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF | C$250 |
| GENERATION COMMUNITY CHURCH (BACKPACK-BACK TO SCHOOL PROGRAM | C$40 |
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 +86% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k 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
- CLCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF7× · 2017–2023 · C$7k · revenue +56%
- F4FOOD 4 KIDS WATERLOO REGION6× · 2017–2023 · C$6k · revenue +410%
- WFWILMOT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE3× · 2019–2023 · C$1k · revenue +86%
Funded once
- WMWELLESLEY MENNONITE CHUCH (FOR WELLESLEY COMMUNITY FOOD CUPBone grant, 2023 · C$4k
- WMWELLESLEY MENNONITE CHURCH (FOR WELLELSLEY COMMUNITY FOOD CUone grant, 2022 · C$1k
- BFBLUESEA FOUNDATION - RIDE FOR REFUGE (FOOD 4 KIDS)graduatedone grant, 2020 · C$835 · revenue +84%
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 food bank of waterloo region (the food bank) acquires coordinates and distributes food to the community food assistance network - a system of 100+ community organizations providing food and support to those in need. these organizations…
Provide nutritional food programs to schools in waterloo region
United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve. We are the largest funder of social programs in Waterloo Region second only to government. We are…
In operation since 1970 Lutherwood offers a range of mental health and social service programs in Waterloo Region and Guelph-Wellington County. We provide the following: • We help children and their families work through mental health…
Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…
Emergency shelter services - provide emergency shelter for abused women and children crisis phone counselling - provide over the phone counselling to abused women and children crisis support - provide short term financial suppoer to abused…
Maternal Health Program This program supports women and girls in accessing essential maternal sexual and reproductive health services. Food Protection Program This program provides refugee families with monthly food supplies to ensure…
Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo
Our mission is to relieve poverty by providing food heating supplies & other basic necessities for people who are of low income & in need. We operate two food banks a food distribution hub a Community Cooks meal program & Heat Bank…
Weekends without hunger- Participants aged 4 – 13 years are referred by schools aware of students with limited access to food in their homes. ?The school submits a referral and parental permission form. Food items are packed by Food4Kids…
Provide information and referral of social services Undertake social research Provide support and services for the charitable sector Our primary pillars are Housing & Homelessness Grassroots Infrastructure and Lived Expertise. Our service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilmot Family Resource Centre Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.. 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 19 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 EASTERN SYNOD OF THE ELCIC ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds FOOD 4 KIDS WATERLOO REGION ↗
- Who funds WILMOT FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds BLUESEA FOUNDATION - RIDE FOR REFUGE (FOOD 4 KIDS) ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY WATERLOO REGION ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP ↗
- Who funds WOOLWICH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE ↗
- Who funds L.A.M.P.-LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS INC ↗
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: United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Abundance Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.