Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization
St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Vancouver
1.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Umoja Operation Society | C$8,000 |
| Wagner Hills Farm / Addiction Recovery | C$1,900 |
| Vancouver Food Bank | C$1,500 |
| Downtown Eastside Women's Shelter | C$1,400 |
| Canadian Lutheran World Relief | C$1,350 |
| Surrey Urban Mission Society | C$800 |
| Covenant House | C$500 |
| Union Gospel Mission | C$500 |
| Our Daily Bread Ministries | C$250 |
| Capernwray Harbour Bible School | C$200 |
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 +56% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- UOUmoja Operation Society7× · 2017–2024 · C$39k · revenue +191%
- EWENTEBBE WOMEN ASSOCIATION4× · 2019–2022 · C$28k · revenue +38%
- CLCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF7× · 2017–2024 · C$24k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- SGST. GEORGE ARMENIAN APOSTIC CHURCHgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$12k · revenue +54%
- ATAssistance to people in needone grant, 2017 · C$1k
- DDELKINAone grant, 2017 · C$250
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.
Missionary organization (recruit train & support full-time missionaries who are each doing some or all of the following: church-planting evangelism discipleship and/or serving the poor & needy. english camps other camps religious programs…
1. Holding conferences and training seminars. 2. Holding quarterly church conferences. 3. Distributing food and clothing to the needy. 4. Holding speaking engagements in various churches. 5. Holding city wide gatherings outreaches and…
We engage in and promote Christian mission work in Canada and in foreign countries.. -We engage in humanitarian mission work in foreign countries including relief of poverty and medical relief. -We provide assistance for the needy the aged…
Forwards funds to Mennonite Central Committee Canada to support international relief. Warehouse collects and ships clothing/blankets/food/medical supplies to Mennonite Central Committee Canada for forwarding to other countries. Partners…
Provide education and encouragement to developing countries conduct seminars and provide overseas short-term mission trops to christians recruit and train missionaries to work
Cbm is a global mission organization committed to sharing god's love through word and deed. we believe that god brings healing to a broken world through local churches. with over 150 years of experience we have seen that words and deeds…
Operate programs serving women in crisis or abused women. Provide peer counselling and support services for victims of sexual assault victims of domestic violence those experiencing unplanned pregnancies those grieving from abortion/infant…
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.…
Christian Reformed World Missions is the international evangelism ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. Activities include evangelism, discipleship, and missions programs around the world.
To conduct Canadian and foreign missions providing funds for missionary efforts To prepare and train national workers for Christian service and send them out as Christian missionaries To provide assistance to people living in poverty
In europe: assist existing evangelical churches and members of the body of christ. establish evangelical churches in europe; establish training centres in europe for the preparation of national pastors and lay leaders. in canada: report to…
Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Vancouver Youth for Christ and the most unlike its peers is University of Victoria. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 23 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 Umoja Operation Society ↗
- Who funds ENTEBBE WOMEN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN MISSION IN BC ↗
- Who funds ST. GEORGE ARMENIAN APOSTIC CHURCH ↗
- Who funds WAGNER HILLS FARM / ADDICTION RECOVERY ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds Vancouver Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Union Gospel Mission ↗
- Who funds Covenant House ↗
- Who funds Downtown Eastside Women's Shelter ↗
- Who funds CAPERNWRAY HARBOUR BIBLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds On Eagles Wings (LAMP) ↗
- Who funds Our Daily Bread Ministries ↗
- Who funds Leprosy Mission ↗
- Who funds Euro-Evangelism ↗
- Who funds GERMAN CANADIAN CARE HOME ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
- Who funds MISSION FEST VANCOUVER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD - SAMARTIAN'S PURSE ↗
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: CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · 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.