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Kitchener, ON · Charitable organization

St Matthews (Kitchener) Lutheran Church

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C$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$420
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$69k
C$20,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WATERLOO LUTHERAN SEMINARYC$25,000
EASTERN SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADAC$23,906
Food4Kids Waterloo RegionC$20,000
THE FOOD BANK OF WATERLOO REGIONC$365
ST MATTHEWS (KITCHENER) LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INCC$55
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$533k · 10 repeat orgsC$136k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 4 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

10
8

Total granted

C$533k
C$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$55 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

  • RO
    REACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER)
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$75k · revenue +74%
  • CL
    Canadian Lutheran World Relief
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$65k · revenue +51%
  • WL
    WATERLOO LUTHERAN SEMINARY
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$52k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • AO
    Anishnabeg Outreach
    one grant, 2022 · C$60k · revenue +24%
  • KW
    K-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYEDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +35%
  • HM
    HER MAJESTY'S ROYAL CHAPEL OF THE MOHAWKS (ST. PAUL'S)graduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +56%

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
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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2
Heartwood Place

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

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3
Waterloo Region Community Foundation

Waterloo region community foundation (wrcf) collaborates with partners to ensure our communities are equitable connected and sustainable; and people are thriving. we strengthen local organizations spaces and experiences to increase…

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4
Waterloo Region Green Solutions

The purposes of the organization are: 1. To deliver environmental programs and services including household and community action designed to promote: a) sustainable resource use renewable energy energy efficiency b) clean air water soil c)…

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5
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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6
Social Development Centre Waterloo Region

Provide information and referral of social services Undertake social research Provide support and services for the charitable sector Our primary pillars are Housing & Homelessness Grassroots Infrastructure and Lived Expertise. Our service…

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7
University of Waterloo

The pursuit of learning through scholarship teaching and research.

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8
Food for Life Inc.

Food for Life is a regional leader in food rescuing and sharing good surplus food to charities and direct to neighbours ensuring everyone has access to good food. Built on a model of sustainability our unique supply chain works with all…

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9
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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10
Central Food Network

Our mission is to relieve poverty by providing food heating supplies & other basic necessities for people who are of low income & in need. We operate two food banks a food distribution hub a Community Cooks meal program & Heat Bank…

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11
Volunteer Action Centre Waterloo Region

1. increase awareness of the value of volunteering - we promote educate and advocate for volunteerism; we foster a culture of volunteerism within waterloo region. 2. provide easy access for community members to volunteer / participate - we…

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12
Waterloo Region Community Legal Services

To provide legal services including advice representation & related services to low income individuals with a focus on protection of housing & income. to provide public legal education to low income individuals in the form of oral…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Bank of Waterloo Region and the most unlike its peers is St Matthews (Kitchener) Lutheran Church Foundation Inc. 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

19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEASTERN SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTERAN CHURCH IN CANADA — C$218,220 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetREACHING OUR OUTDOOR FRIENDS (KITCHENER) — C$75,200 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCanadian Lutheran World Relief — C$65,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetAnishnabeg Outreach — C$60,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWATERLOO LUTHERAN SEMINARY — C$52,040 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetK-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFood4Kids Waterloo Region — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTrinity Centres Foundation — C$30,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$29,568 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLutheran Homes Kitchener-Waterloo — C$20,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK — C$2,615 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNutrition For Learning — C$415 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY WATERLOO REGION — C$395 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE SELF HELP FOOD BANK — C$297 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FOOD FOR CHILDREN — C$180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART & STROKE — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART & STROKE — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS (KITCHENER) LUTHERAN CHURCH FOUNDATION INC — C$55 over 1y, 0.2% 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…The Roman Catholic Ep…United Way Waterloo R…The Food Bank of Wate…Eastern Synod of the …Gore Mutual Insurance…Abundance CanadaYouth and Philanthrop…Emmanuel United ChurchKitchener-Conestoga R…Social Venture Partne…The Cowan Foundation
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON12.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · The Food Bank of Waterloo Region · Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Luthern Church in Canada / Synode de L'Est de L'Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne Au Canada · Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · Abundance Canada · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Emmanuel United Church · Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund · Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region · The Cowan Foundation

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 811619675:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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