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Kitchener, ON · Charitable organization

St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church

Weeklyservices for church members & all non members welcome visitation for shutins loose change collection to support other local charities

C$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$200
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN SYNOD OF THE ELCICC$1,560
FOOD BANK WATERLOO REGIONC$205
CAMINO WELLBEING & MENTAL HEALTHC$200
ONE ROOF YOUTH SERVICEC$200
LUTHERWOOD CHILD & FAMILY FOUNDATIONC$200
LISSARD HOUSEC$150
COMMUNITY SUPPORT CONNECTIONC$150
THE WORKING CENTREC$150
CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFC$80
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$30k · 13 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

C$30k
C$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$400 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

  • SM
    ST MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$5k · revenue +26%
  • RO
    RAY OF HOPE
    2× · 2019–2023 · C$2k · revenue +1%
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$2k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • MH
    MENNO HOMES
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue -67%
  • WC
    WOOLWICH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$710 · revenue +18%
  • HO
    HOSPICE OF WATERLOO REGION
    one grant, 2018 · C$400 · revenue +23%

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.

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Lutheran Homes Kitchener-Waterloo

Provide and operate non-profit residential accommodation and incidental facilities there to exclusive for: 1) person with low income 2) senior citizen of low/modest income and who have varying degree of special needs 3) disabled person of…

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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
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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4
Heartwood Place

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

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5
Supportive Housing of Waterloo

SHOW's mission is to collaboratively provide housing and a continuum of supports to those who have experienced homelessness and encountered barriers to achieving their fundamental right to safe and affordable housing. SHOW is dedicated to…

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6
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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7
Reception House - Waterloo Region Inc.

Reception house - waterloo region is established to provide temporary accomodation education counselling and other support services for refugees and government assisted refugees in need arriving in the regional municipality of waterloo.…

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8
Lutheran Social Services (Owen Sound)

Affordable housing for seniors low-income & those with disabilities

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9
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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10
Women's Rural Resource Centre of Strathroy & Area

Wrrc provides physical and psychological safety advocacy couselling and support to abused women and their children within west middlesex county ontario. programs: 24 hour emergency shelter/24 hour help line community and outreach…

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11
Victim Services of Waterloo Region

Victim services of waterloo region believes every victim has the right to heal from a crime or tragic circumstance. our programs create opportunities foster hope and promote safer and healthier communities.

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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 House of Friendship and the most unlike its peers is Saint Monica House. 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

17 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. 17 of the 18 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEASTER SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH CANADA — C$16,288 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetST MATTHEWS LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$4,652 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMENNO HOMES — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAY OF HOPE — C$1,675 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$1,530 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERWOOD CHILD + FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetST PETERS LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$805 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOMAN'S CRISIS CENTRE OF WATERLOO REGION — C$765 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF FRIENDSHIP — C$761 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOOLWICH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$710 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONICA PLACE — C$663 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLISSARD HOUSE — C$651 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK WATERLOO REGION — C$435 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SUPPORT CONNECTION — C$404 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF WATERLOO REGION — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMINO WELLBEING & MENTAL HEALTH — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetONE ROOF YOUTH SERVICE — C$200 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…The Roman Catholic Ep…Abundance CanadaThe Cowan FoundationYouth and Philanthrop…Astley Family Foundat…Wallenstein Feed Char…The Food Bank of Wate…Cambridge & North Dum…St George's of Forest…Mount Zion Evangelica…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON13.7× affinity10 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 · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · Abundance Canada · The Cowan Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Astley Family Foundation · Wallenstein Feed Charitable Foundation · The Food Bank of Waterloo Region · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · St George's of Forest Hill Anglican Church · Mount Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waterloo

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 18 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 119195600:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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