Bridgewater, NS · Charitable organization
St Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
To function as a Lutheran congregation proclaiming the gospel of Jesus Christ through word and action.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Eastern Synod of the ELCIC | C$2,500 |
| Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) | C$1,362 |
| Bridgewater Interchurch Food Bank | C$968 |
| Canadian Red Cross | C$721 |
| Samaritan's Purse | C$499 |
| Soul's Harbour Rescue Mission | C$427 |
| Camp Mush-A-Mush | C$325 |
| Salvation Army | C$162 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +115% since the first grant, against +78% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$721 went to new ones.
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
- CLCanadian Lutheran World Relief6× · 2019–2024 · C$7k · revenue +115%
- CMCamp Mush-A-Mush6× · 2019–2024 · C$6k · revenue +83%
- BIBRIDGEWATER INTERCHURCH FOOD BANK6× · 2019–2024 · C$6k · revenue +117%
Funded once
- BIBridgewater Inter Church Councilone grant, 2017 · C$1k
- BIBridgewater Interchurch Food Bankone grant, 2018 · C$1k
- CMCamp Mush A Mushone grant, 2018 · C$684
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Searching for lost or missing persons in lunenburg county and other counties in nova scotia when requested. responding to civil emergencies (floods hurricanes etc.) providing education programs to children youth & adults as to what to do…
The society raised funds to assist in the construction and operation of a multi-purpose facility for the residents of lunenburg county. construction was completed during 2014 and the capital fundraising program was ongoing until 2022.
Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities
ShelterBox Canada provides shelter essential items and technical assistance to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people recover and rebuild their homes after disaster. ShelterBox teams listen and adapt our support to the needs of…
Operated a food bank by collecting donations of money and food for distribution to the needy.
To provide advocacy case management financial and support services to individuals with a developmental disability. to provide support services to seniors to maintain and enhance community living. to provide pastoral care to residents of…
1. religious advancement 2. financial support for ministry to minorities in canada 3. financial support for ministry work outside of canada 4. financial support for education in theology through grants to lutheran seminaries in canada 5.…
Lunenburg heritage society lists to promote lunenburg's unique heritage and to tell the story of its culture social and economic development. it operates the knaut rhuland house museum (a national historic site.)
Support of Refugees by providing basic necessities of life including financial and humanitarian assistance to refugees and those escaping war persecution or natural disaster. Facilitate the resettlement of refugees by providing supports…
Luther home operates an 80 bed personal care home for the elderly and physically handicapped. luther home also operates two subsidized elderly persons housing projects.
Affordable housing for seniors low-income & those with disabilities
Mission-is-to-recognize-the-human-dignity-of-those-in-need-and-to-provide-food-and-access-to-services-and-resources-generated from-within-our-community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Souls Harbour Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Bridgewater Inter-Church Food Bank. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EASTERN SYNOD OF THE ELCIC ↗
- Who funds Canadian Lutheran World Relief (CLWR) ↗
- Who funds Camp Mush-A-Mush ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER INTERCHURCH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds Soul's Harbour ↗
- Who funds Samaritan's Purse ↗
- Who funds Canadian Red Cross ↗
- Who funds United Way Lunenburg County ↗
- Who funds SHAID ↗
- Who funds Health Services Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.