Kingston, ON · Charitable organization
St Mark`S Lutheran Church
Hold weekly worship services online and in-person; assist in planning and delivering ecumenical worship services; provide pastoral care and counseling; conduct adult spirituality grouped; conduct youth ministry (Spirit Queery a group for college students with intentional affirmation of 2SLGBTQIA+ persons) and participate in another…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church | C$9,527 |
| Partners in Mission Food Bank | C$2,545 |
| Martha's Table Community Program | C$2,076 |
| Canadian Lutheran World Relief | C$375 |
| Lionhearts Kingston | C$135 |
| Kingston Employment and Youth Services (KEYS) | C$60 |
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 +64% since the first grant, against -6739% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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
- MTMartha's Table Community Program7× · 2017–2024 · C$10k · revenue +179%
- CLCanadian Lutheran World Relief4× · 2020–2024 · C$5k · revenue +40%
- KYKingston Youth Shelter3× · 2017–2020 · C$3k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- KYKingston Youth Shelterone grant, 2018 · C$1k
- TSThe Salvation Army Kingston Citadel Corpsone grant, 2022 · C$780 · revenue -6739%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · C$193
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 charity provides subsidized (affordable) rental accomodations and support services to 98 low income single adults. accommodations are provided in 11 co-op houses one 5 unit apartment building one 14 unit apartment building one 24 unit…
Provide good quality food to people in area who can't afford to buy food. (food bank)
Providing housing for low income seniors
Food and clothing banks soup kitchen other services for low-income individuals
Loving spoonful is addressing food security through school and community gardens community kitchen programs for low-income individuals and families and delivery of surplus fresh foods to shelters meal programs and locations where people…
The kingsville community food bank continues to strive to improve the quality of life for the residents of the town of kingsville through a food security program providing food supplies and essentials to those in need on a regular basis.…
Prepares and gives out food packages to homeless people in toronto
Ongoing services which are fundamental to the organization and its community include the following: 1) homelessness prevention 2) drop-in services 3) food security programs 4) housing support services
Rescue rehabilitate and find suitable homes for animals in need; provide emergency animal rescue and disaster response services when possible;end the euthanasia of adoptable animals in shelters by educating the public and reducing the…
Kawartha food share acts as a warehouse distribution centre for the city and county of peterborough. we provide food to 38 local agencies who operate food banks and agency food cupboards and meal programs. over 8 000 people use the…
To provide a nourishing meal for those in need
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lion Hearts Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Canadian Lutheran World Relief. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 14 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 Martha's Table Community Program ↗
- Who funds Canadian Lutheran World Relief ↗
- Who funds Kingston Youth Shelter ↗
- Who funds Partners in Mission Food Bank ↗
- Who funds The Salvation Army Kingston Citadel Corps ↗
- Who funds Lionhearts Kingston ↗
- Who funds Kingston Employment and Youth Services (KEYS) ↗
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: Community Foundation for Kingston & Area · United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington · Crossroads United Church · Anna & Edward C. Churchill Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · 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.