Sherwood Park, AB · Charitable organization
St. Mary & St. George Coptic Orthodox Church of Red Deer
Church services: * worship services 'mass' weekly.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St. George Coptic Orthodox Church | C$5,000 |
| St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Monastery of Eastern Ontario | C$2,000 |
| St. George & St. Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church | C$500 |
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 +153% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 27% 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
- CCCHRISTIAN-CANADIAN COPTIC FUND3× · 2017–2019 · C$51k · revenue +153%
- SMST. MARY COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF EDMONTON5× · 2017–2022 · C$30k · revenue +71%
- SASt. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Monastery of Eastern Ontario2× · 2022–2023 · C$12k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- BOBISHOPRIC OF PUBLIC ECUMENICAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES (BLESS Cone grant, 2021 · C$29k · revenue -28%
- SGST. GEORGE & ST. PAUL THE ANCHORITE MONASTERYone grant, 2019 · C$20k · revenue -49%
- SMSt. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Churchone grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue -15%
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 church administers liturgy according to the coptic orthodox tradition and provides education to the community
Perform Holy liturgy (Coptic Mass) Sunday school teachings Bible studies spritual retreats and trips religious books etc.
Administring the liturgy and sacrements according to the coptic ortodox church christian education sunday school bible study and evangelism.
The Church is a religious organization the primary purpose of which is to provide a place of worship for its congregation. The church also provides services to its members such as religious retreats mass and kids Bible study camps. The…
The Church administers the liturgy and sacraments according to the Coptic Orthodox Church tradition provides Christian education and Sunday School and conducts spiritual meetings bible study and other related activities.
Lituray and the sacraments/christian education prayer meeting/ youth group meeting
Administring The Liturgy and sacrements according to the Coptic Orthodox Church Christian Education Sunday School Bible Study and evangelism
Providing religious services for the members of teh coptic orthodox christian faith
Administring the liturgy and sacrements according to the coptic orthodox church christian education sunday school bible study and evangelism
Support and maintain weekly masses and Sunday school to promote and advance the spiritual teachings of Christian Coptic orthodoxy
Weekly mass and worship services various men's women's youth and children ministries
Providing Religious Services In The Coptic Orthodox Faith Community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St. George & St. Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church and the most unlike its peers is First Christian Reformed Church. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
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 CHRISTIAN-CANADIAN COPTIC FUND ↗
- Who funds ST. MARY COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF EDMONTON ↗
- Who funds BISHOPRIC OF PUBLIC ECUMENICAL AND SOCIAL SERVICES (BLESS C ↗
- Who funds ST. GEORGE & ST. PAUL THE ANCHORITE MONASTERY ↗
- Who funds St. Mark's Coptic Orthodox Church ↗
- Who funds St. Anthony Coptic Orthodox Monastery of Eastern Ontario ↗
- Who funds ST MINA COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF CALGARY ↗
- Who funds St. Mary & St. Paul Coptic Orthodox Church of Calgary ↗
- Who funds St. George Coptic Orthodox Church ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF ST. MARY ↗
- Who funds St. George & St. Abanoub Coptic Orthodox Church ↗
- Who funds First Christian Reformed Church of Red Deer ↗
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 of Calgary and Area · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · 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.