Edmonton, AB · Charitable organization
Strathearn United Church
We hold weekly in-person worship services with vocal and instrumental music; they are recorded and posted to YouTube.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$6k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Church of Canada Mission & Service Fund | C$12,278 |
| Youth Empowerment & Support Services | C$2,550 |
| Bissell Centre | C$1,605 |
| Edmonton Gleaners Association (Edmonton's Food Bank) | C$1,305 |
| E4C Edmonton City Centre Church Corporation | C$256 |
| Zebra Child & Youth Advocacy Centre | C$250 |
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 +40% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k 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
- UCUnited Church of Canada Dept. of Mission & Service4× · 2020–2023 · C$51k · revenue +13%
- TBThe Bissell Centre8× · 2017–2024 · C$9k · revenue +128%
- YEYouth Empowerment & Support Services4× · 2018–2024 · C$5k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- UCUnited Church of Canada, Dept of Mississaugaone grant, 2017 · C$13k
- SSSage Seniors Associationone grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue -7%
- EGEdmonton Gleaners Associationone grant, 2023 · C$2k · revenue +6%
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.
Providing room board and support services to people with chronic mental illness.
The association works in partnership with the local community and three levels of government to create and provide comprehensive services for vulnerable populations in edmonton operating a community centre affordable housing complex and a…
Boyle street service society provide the following services: 1) housing first- assists in placing individuals and families in affordable accomodations. 2) street outreach- helps people meet immediate needs such as food warm clothing and…
The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…
The mustard seed is a christian charitable organization that is servicing vulnerable citizens in alberta and british columbia. in calgary the charity offers an expansive range of innovative programs and services including education and…
Homespace society is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to creatively apply expertise to increase and manage the number of affordable and specialized housing units in calgary
Programs that place children referred by childrens services into foster homes and provide support to both the children and the foster family
CUPS supports Calgarians impacted by poverty trauma and systemic marginalization with a unique integrated approach to care. We empower people to work holistically to create and achieve goals that support their well-being and build…
Mcman assists individuals and families across alberta to develop skills and supports to function effectively as members of the community. we exercise advocacy and leadership in the community. we deliver multiple programs including family…
Provide long-term safe appropriate decent non-labeled housing and supportive property management for low-income people in Edmonton. Administration fundraising and volunteer coordination for existing and new housing projects in Edmonton.…
The foundation provides support to those in need by working with charities involved in: shelter homelessness hunger crime prevention and special projects.
The sexual assault centre of edmonton (sace) exists to support people impacted by sexual violence and engage communities to promote respect and uphold a cuture of consent. core services: -24 hr support ad information line -trauma informed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edmonton City Centre Church Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Canadahelps Canadon. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 17 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 United Church of Canada Dept. of Mission & Service ↗
- Who funds United Church of Canada Mission & Service Fund ↗
- Who funds The Bissell Centre ↗
- Who funds Youth Empowerment & Support Services ↗
- Who funds Edmonton Gleaners Association (Food Bank) ↗
- Who funds Canadaian Mental Health Association ↗
- Who funds Mustard Sed ↗
- Who funds Sage Seniors Association ↗
- Who funds Strathcona Shelter Society Ltd. ↗
- Who funds Edmonton Gleaners Association ↗
- Who funds L'Arche Association of Edmonton ↗
- Who funds e4c (Edmonton City Centre Church Corporation) ↗
- Who funds GEORGE SPADY CENTRE ↗
- Who funds Sign of Hope Society ↗
- Who funds Zebra Child & Youth Advocacy Centre ↗
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 Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · Robertson-Wesley United Church · Southminster Steinhauer United Church · Royal Alexandra Hospital Employees Charitable Donation Fund · Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue · The Stollery Charitable Foundation · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Anglican Parish of St. Patrick Edmonton
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.