Olds, AB · Charitable organization
St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Olds
Provide maintenance defense and propagation of christian faith according to the confessions of the evangelical lutheran church in canada.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$977
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA | C$11,250 |
| CAMP KURIAKOS- SYLVAN LAKELUTHERAN BIBLE CAMP ASSOCIATION | C$327 |
| LUTHERAN COLLEGIATE BIBLE INSTITUTE | C$325 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (AUGUSTANA CAMPUS) | C$325 |
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 +65% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- SOSynod of Alberta5× · 2017–2024 · C$61k · revenue +10%
- LCLutheran Collegiate Bible Institute7× · 2017–2024 · C$3k · revenue +65%
- CKCAMP KURIAKOS8× · 2017–2024 · C$3k · revenue ×1,050
Funded once
- LTLutheran Theological Seminary Saskatoonone grant, 2017 · C$735 · revenue -30%
- ODOlds & District Hospice Societygraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$600 · revenue +178%
- LCLUTHERAN CALLEGIATE BIBLE INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · C$480
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.
Concordia lutheran seminary is an institution of theological higher education dedicated primarily to the preparation of students for he pastoral ministry of lutheran church-canada and beyond. concordia lutheran seminary a seminary of…
Luther college operates an independent boarding/day school that provides education for students from grade 9 to 12 following the saskatchewan school curriculum as well as the international baccalaureate program. luther college also…
Concordia lutheran theological seminary provides training primarily for certifying candidates for ministry within lutheran church canada. there are two programs streams. a two year master of theological studies and a four year master of…
MB Seminary provides graduate theological education to students from the Mennonite Brethren Christian tradition. MB Seminary provides seminars and leadership development courses to students from the viewpoint of the Mennonite Brethren…
Waterloo lutheran seminary (wls) is accredited by the association of theological schools an international accrediting body. its degree programs are accredited buy the ontario council of graduate studies. wls offers an undergraduate degree…
Provide theological education to canadian students via the institute of lutheran theology
Alberta bible college is a post secondary educational institution awarding four-year degrees two-year diplomas and one-year certificates in christian ministries. a two-year degree completion program in christian leadership or counselling…
The synod co-ordinates with the national church elcic on church affairs. the synod operates a synod administration centre supporting the regular functions of the evangelical lutheran church in bc. the synod also oversees congregations…
At the National Office of the ELCIC we develop policies and standards for rostered leaders and worship public policies for the church in society and resources for stewardship and worship. We work in partnership with Lutheran and ecumenical…
Provide programs for teaching the bible and doctrines of the evangelical lutheran church in canada ( elcic)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute and the most unlike its peers is Mountain View Hospice Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 Synod of Alberta ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Collegiate Bible Institute ↗
- Who funds CAMP KURIAKOS ↗
- Who funds Camp Kuriakas ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Theological Seminary Saskatoon ↗
- Who funds Olds & District Hospice Society ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE ↗
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: The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd of Red Deer · Grace Lutheran Church · Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sundre · Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · St. John Lutheran Church · United Way of Calgary and Area · Aqueduct Foundation · 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.