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Kitchener, ON · Charitable organization

St. Stephen's Lutheran Church

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C$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$17k
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$1k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$17k
C$16,996
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Eastern Synod of the ELCICC$16,996
Food Bank of Waterloo RegionC$1,350
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$212k · 11 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

C$212k
C$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+76%
+60%

Still filing today

100%
78%

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

  • TF
    The Food Bank of Waterloo Region
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$8k · revenue +137%
  • AH
    Anselma House
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$7k · revenue +14%
  • DG
    Dalton Glebe Counselling Centre (Martin Luther University Co
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$7k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • AS
    Autism Society of Ontario
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k
  • HC
    HopeSpring Cancer Support Centre
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k
  • DF
    Days for Girls Canada Societygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$725 · revenue +60%

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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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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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
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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5
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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Ronald Mcdonald House Southwestern Ontario

Ronald McDonald House Charities (RMHC) of Southwestern Ontario is an Ontario not-for-profit charitable corporation formed in 1985. During 2024 the Organization changed its legal name from 'Southwestern Ontario Children’s Care Inc.' to…

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7
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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8
Family and Children's Services of the Waterloo Region Employ
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9
FOOD4KIDS Waterloo Region

Food4kids waterloo region provides healthy food packages to children ages 1-14 from severe food insecure homes during weekends and school breaks when kids are not in school and unable to access school nutrition programs.

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10
Waterloo Region Family Network

Waterloo region network supports families of children youth and adults with special needs both with and without a diagnosis in waterloo region prviding resources and facilitating meaningful connections in all life stages. as a…

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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
Women's House Serving Bruce & Grey

Temporary safe residential shelter with 13 beds for women & children in crisis; 2 crisis & 1 sexual assault crisis telephone lines available 24 hours at kincardine shelter. community counselling services in bruce & grey counties with…

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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

18 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. 18 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
16/18
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEastern Synod of the ELCIC — C$182,075 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe Food Bank of Waterloo Region — C$8,225 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAnselma House — C$6,775 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDalton Glebe Counselling Centre (Martin Luther University Co — C$6,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetoneRoof — C$2,635 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOne4Another International — C$2,274 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLutherwood — C$1,122 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe House of Friendship — C$980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDays for Girls Canada Society — C$725 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMonica Place — C$450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEmanuel United Church (Vera's Place) — C$400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA Shelter Services — C$350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Society of Waterloo Wellington — C$284 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Mary s charitable foundation — C$161 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEducation for Change — C$91 over 1y, 0.2% of budgeteffect:hope (The Leprosy Mission Canada) — C$81 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Andrew's Memorial Anglican Church — C$25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake a Wish Canada — C$25 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…St George's of Forest…The Roman Catholic Ep…United Way Waterloo R…Waterloo Christian Re…Canadian National Chr…Emmanuel United ChurchThe Waterloo-Kitchene…Creekside ChurchKitchener-Conestoga R…The May Court Club of…Unity Centre of Pract…
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON13.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · St George's of Forest Hill Anglican Church · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Waterloo Christian Reformed Church · Canadian National Christian Foundation · Emmanuel United Church · The Waterloo-Kitchener United Mennonite Church · Creekside Church · Kitchener-Conestoga Rotary Club Community Aid Fund · The May Court Club of Kitchener-Waterloo · Unity Centre of Practical Christianity

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 20 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 108042151:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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