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Spruce Grove, AB · Charitable organization

St Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church

We hold weekly Sunday Worship Services (in person and on-line) Weekly Bible Study (in person and on-line) Weekly Confirmation Classes and Weekly Sunday School.

C$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$600
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alberta Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in CanadaC$2,040
St. Augustine's ParklandC$910
Canadian Lutheran World ReliefC$600
NeighbourLink ParklandC$300
Parkland Food Bank SocietyC$265
Mulhurst Lutheran Church Camp AssociationC$100
02Your 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$47k · 11 repeat orgsC$6k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

C$47k
C$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+39%

Still filing today

64%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$910 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SO
    Synod of Alberta and Territories
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$33k · revenue +10%
  • OS
    Our Savior Lutheran Church
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$5k · revenue +7%
  • CL
    Canadian Lutheran World Relief
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$4k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • EL
    Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k · revenue +39%
  • LT
    Lutheran Theological Seminary
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k
  • BC
    Bissel Centre
    one grant, 2017 · C$245

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

03Your 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
Lutheran Church of the Cross

Weekly worship services christian education for children youth and adults pastoral care community outreach financial support for the alberta synod of the evangelical lutheran church in canada

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2
Peace Lutheran Church of Calgary

We are a Community Church holding weekly worship services. We provide Sunday School and Vacation Bible School activities as well as programs for Youth and Seniors. We give Pastoral care. We donate funds to denominational headquarters for…

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3
Lutheran Institutional Ministry-Edmonton
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4
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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5
Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Forest Lawn Calgary

Worship-sunday school-music-studies-breakfast-counselling-food bank-prayer shawl-knitting-youth & young adults-summer camp.

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6
St Mark's Lutheran Church

We provide Pastoral care. We hold weekly worship services. We provide Sunday School programming for children. We provide adult education programs in a worship community. We provide support to people in need and other organizations that…

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7
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church of Lemberg Saskatchewan

We support the programs of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada by working serving witnessing and learning. Our congregation of baptized members proclaim the word of God and minister to each other and the community.

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8
Living Word Lutheran Church

Worship preaching evangelism delivery of sacraments asministration & leadership

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9
Mount Calvary Lutheran Church

Our Church is active in all aspects of the Christian Ministry for all parishioners. This includes sermons baptism marriage bible study and confirmation classes as part of Lutheran Church Canada.

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10
Oakridge Lutheran Church

1. weekly worship services 2. bible study classes

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11
St Paul's Lutheran Church

Sunday Worship Online and in person bible study Visitation of parishioners in home and LTC Ecumenical activities; Walk of the Cross; Worship in the Park Vacation Bible School Fall Fair worship service Support of local food bank with food…

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12
Our Savior Lutheran Church

Conduct weekly and special mid-week worship serivces. provide christian teaching to children in weekly sunday school programs contribute funds to lutheran church canada for world mission activities training of new clergy world relief…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Campus Ministry-Saskatoon and the most unlike its peers is Parkland Food Bank Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the 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 17 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
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 budgetSynod of Alberta and Territories — C$32,773 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOur Savior Lutheran Church — C$4,999 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCanadian Lutheran World Relief — C$4,165 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEvangelical Lutheran Church of Canada — C$3,723 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt. Augustine's Parkland — C$910 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLutheran Theological Seminary — C$900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNeighbourLink Parkland — C$700 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetParkland Food Bank Society — C$645 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMulhurst Lutheran Church Camp Association — C$500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSpruce Grove Community Church — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran Campus Ministry — C$85 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Trinity Evangelical L…Hosanna Lutheran Chur…The Edmonton Communit…United Way of the Alb…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran ChurchAB8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church · Hosanna Lutheran Church at Luther Place · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · 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 17 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 129951547:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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