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Conestogo, ON · Charitable organization

St Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church

Sunday morning worship services adult education various mission and community projects nifty knitters

C$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$11k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$135
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$11k
C$11,340
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$248k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN SYNOD ELCICC$11,340
MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY COLLEGEC$135
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$108k · 5 repeat orgsC$6k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

C$108k
C$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+44%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • WC
    WOOLWICH COMMUNITY SERVICES
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$4k · revenue +50%
  • CC
    Community Care Concepts of Woolwich, Wellesley & Wilmot Town
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$2k · revenue +123%
  • TF
    THE FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGION
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$1k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • ML
    MARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY COLLAGE
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue -2%
  • WC
    WOOLWICH COUNSELLING CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue +74%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue -89%

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
Waterloo Wellington Community Care Access Centre Waterloo Wellington

Client centred visiting health and support services to eligible clients of all ages in Waterloo Region and Wellington County. Information and assistance to persons who require placement in a long term facility. Simplified access to…

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2
Lutherwood

In operation since 1970 Lutherwood offers a range of mental health and social service programs in Waterloo Region and Guelph-Wellington County. We provide the following: • We help children and their families work through mental health…

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3
Heartwood Place

Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo

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4
Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch

Community based mental health services including: mental health promotion and intervention crisis intervention clinical therapeutic services children's (mental health and developmental) adults and seniors programs and community consultant…

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5
Woodstock Hospital

The provision of public general hospital care to the citizens of the City of Woodstock and the county of Oxford. The hospital is also a 'Schedule 1' psychiatric facility. The provision of service to persons with developmental disabilities…

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6
Wellspring London and Region

Wellspring london and region provides supportive cancer care programs and services free of charge to people with a cancer diagnosis as well as their caregivers.

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7
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region

Emergency shelter services - provide emergency shelter for abused women and children crisis phone counselling - provide over the phone counselling to abused women and children crisis support - provide short term financial suppoer to abused…

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8
Woolwich Transit Inc

Provide specialized accessible transportation for the elderly physically and developmentally disabled residents of Woolwich Wellesley and Wilmot Township.

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9
Community Healthcaring Kitchener-Waterloo

Primary healthcare services mental health counseling psychiatry services chiropody services diabetes education services respiratory services mobile bus clinic (partnership with sanguen) dental service for seniors oral health program…

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10
Waterloo - Wellington Autism Services

Providing information on services and supports for individuals and families who have Autism Spectrum Disorder.

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11
Hospice of Waterloo Region

Hospice of waterloo region is a registered charity incorporated without capital under the laws of ontario and is dedicated to providing comfort care and support to people affected by a life-threatending illness. the organization has a…

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12
United Way Waterloo Region Communities

United Way Waterloo Region Communities is dedicated to helping people live better lives in every one of the seven communities we serve. We are the largest funder of social programs in Waterloo Region second only to government. We are…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Care Concepts of Woolwich Wellesley & Wilmot Townships and the most unlike its peers is Lisaard and Innisfree Hospice. 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

14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEastern Synod ELCIC — C$99,364 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetWOOLWICH COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$4,389 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Care Concepts of Woolwich, Wellesley & Wilmot Town — C$2,314 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGION — C$1,422 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY COLLAGE — C$1,280 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOOLWICH COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTIN LUTHER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — C$890 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED — C$770 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN LEGION — C$500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHope Spring Cancer Support Centre — C$465 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInnisfree House — C$320 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLLWICH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$295 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$245 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…United Way Waterloo R…Wallenstein Feed Char…Abundance CanadaSt James Lutheran Chu…Mersynergy Charitable…The Guelph Community …Charitable Gift Funds…My Tribute Gift Found…Strategic Charitable …Charities Aid Foundat…United Way of Greater…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON10.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Wallenstein Feed Charitable Foundation · Abundance Canada · St James Lutheran Church · Mersynergy Charitable Foundation · The Guelph Community Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 14 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 132099110:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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