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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

St. Matthew Lutheran Church

This organization serves its members and spreads the kingdom of god by spreading the word and providing religious instruction to youth and adults

C$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW BEGINNINGS LUTHERAN CHURCHC$4,000
LUTHERAN CHURCH CANADAC$1,000
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARYC$1,000
CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFC$1,000
GERMAN CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTAC$50
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 90% of grant dollars (C$42k). The 10% that went abroad (C$5k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 10% of all-years giving (C$5k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$36k · 7 repeat orgsC$11k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
10

Total granted

C$36k
C$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+76%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • CL
    CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$11k · revenue +48%
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$10k · revenue +56%
  • LH
    LUTHERAN HOSPITAL MINISTRIES SOUTHERN ALBERTA
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$4k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • LC
    LUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADA
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue +7%
  • CC
    CHILDREN'S COTTAGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue +76%
  • LM
    LOCAL MISSIONS
    one grant, 2018 · C$812

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your field

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
Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

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.…

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2
Lutheran Hospital Ministry of Northern Alberta Society

Visiting the sick. recruit and train volunteers to visit lutherans who are hospitalized to provide them with spiritual care.

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3
Calgary Young Women's Christian Association

Yw calgary supports women and their families in meeting their immediate and most basic needs and works directly with them to create positive and long-lasting change in their lives. we believe that healthy women and healthy families lead to…

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4
Calgary Counselling Centre

1) Individual couples family and group counselling services to children youth and adults in distress. 2) Provide preventative counselling services for a wide range of personal needs. 3) We educate university students in counselling to…

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5
Lutheran Theological Seminary

Lutheran theological seminary educates pastors students and lay leaders of the evangelical lutheran church in canada. this education leads to the following degrees and certificates: doctor of ministry for those already ordained for…

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6
Lutheran Institutional Ministry-Edmonton
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7
Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations/L'associationcanadienne Des CongrÉGations LuthÉRiennes

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…

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8
First Evangelical Lutheran Church of Calgary Alberta

A community church serving god through christian-centred learning including the following programs: weekly worship sunday school bible studies and prayer ministries.

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9
Institute of Lutheran Theology Canada Society

Provide theological education to canadian students via the institute of lutheran theology

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10
Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse Society

1. provide a support and information line available to anyone who is dealing with or has been affected by the various forms of sexual assault or sexual abuse. 2. provide 24 hour hospital call out: through the calgary sexual assault team…

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11
Community Learning Network - an Alberta Association of Leaders in Lifelong Learning

The Community Learning Network (CLN) cultivates and promotes the advancement of community-based learning in Alberta by providing training support and resources to our networks. Based on identified trends needs and issues in community adult…

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12
The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd of Red Deer

Christian Ministries Adult & Children's Christian Education Youth work Councelling Christian Outreach Support of other ministries and Social Agencies. Support National Church - mission work and Worldwide Relief Support of National and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Church-Canada and the most unlike its peers is Lutheran Bible Translators of Canada Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 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. 11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
11/11
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY — C$10,629 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$9,560 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN HOSPITAL MINISTRIES SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$3,785 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetLUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S COTTAGE — C$1,168 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN LAYMEN'S LEAGUE — C$1,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLUTHERAN BIBLE TRANSLATORS CANADA — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREHABILITATION SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$543 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY — C$537 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENS' CENTRE OF CALGARY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$228 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

United Way of Calgary…Charitable Gift Funds…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB6.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 108031428:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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