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Sturgeon County, AB · Private foundation

The Ben Sawatzky Foundation

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C$504k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$165k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$37k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$210k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$257k
C$18,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATIONC$165,000
TEACH BEYOND TRANSFORMATIONAL EDUCATION SERVICESC$92,000
THE PAOC FOUNDATIONC$47,500
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION CANADAC$38,500
ADEARA RECOVERY CENTREC$30,450
HOPE MISSIONC$29,020
LIVING WATERS CHRISTIAN ACADEMYC$23,500
CHILDCARE INTERNATIONALC$18,000
STONY PLAIN ALLIANCE CHURCHC$12,000
GLOBAL DISCIPLES CANADAC$11,250
IMPACT MINISTRIESC$8,000
ICEJ CANADA AID AND DEVELOPMENTC$8,000
SANCTUARY MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETYC$7,500
GIVEWISE FOUNDATION CANADAC$7,250
MULLY CHILDREN'S FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$6,000
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.4M · 29 repeat orgsC$288k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
19

Total granted

C$7.4M
C$213k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+20%

Still filing today

93%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$75k 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

  • TB
    TEACH BEYOND TRANSFORMATIONAL EDUCATION SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$631k · revenue +28%
  • CI
    ChildCare International
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$234k · revenue +31%
  • LW
    LIVING WATERS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$174k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • EW
    Evangelical World Outreach of Canada
    one grant, 2018 · C$82k · revenue -92%
  • TW
    Trinity Western Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue +45%
  • BB
    B'NAI BRITH OF CANADA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$20k · revenue +133%

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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Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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2
Christ's Hope International- Canada

Providing health education by instruction to the public regarding hiv/aids; providing basic necessities of life such as shelter and medical assistance to children orphaned by hiv/aids; teaching the christian faith. all of 1-3 take place in…

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3
AngelOne Canada

Conducts missionary work in the developing countries

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4
Multiply Network

The organization operates global Christian mission programs by training and sending missionaries and church planting teams to all parts of the world. MULTIPLY Network builds the capacity of national leaders to contribute in the same ways.…

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5
Impacthope

We are a faith based organization partnering with national christian leaders. together we develop sustainable projects that address the cycle of poverty. our efforts include the construction of a hospital in guatemala; two children homes…

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6
Compassion Canada

Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…

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7
Strategic Ministry Partnerships - Canada

Relieving poverty in developing nations by providing food and other necessities of life including access to education for children of families who are poor of low income or in need.

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8
International Teams Canada Inc.

We bring together church partners and local leaders through long-term transformational development programs in which lives and communities move towards the fullness of life characterized by dignity justice hope and peace. In the…

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9
Tearfund Canada

Tearfund is passionate to see all people freed from poverty living transformed lives and reaching their god-given potential. firmly affirming national leadership we collaborate with church-based partners across the global south to fix the…

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10
International Christian Ministries

International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…

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11
Hope Story

Working around the world hope story is a christian charity located in cambridge ontario with a mission to help vulnerable children access education health and discipleship through their local church. the in-country churches we partner with…

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12
Every Home for Christ International/Canada

Christian philanthropic work that provides: - Evangelism and discipleship strategies and resources for churches and individuals - Support for children in various nations

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Needs Canada and the most unlike its peers is The King's University. 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

51 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. 51 of the 53 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
30/51
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Samaritan Foundation — C$5,033,197 over 8y, 55% of budgetTEACH BEYOND TRANSFORMATIONAL EDUCATION SERVICES — C$631,400 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetChildCare International — C$234,150 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetSTONY PLAIN ALLIANCE CHURCH — C$200,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetLIVING WATERS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — C$174,180 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTRANS ASIA PARTNERSHIP — C$161,987 over 2y, 60% of budgetMully Children's Family Charitable Foundation — C$113,850 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetFRESH APOINTING MINISTRIES OF CANADA — C$94,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetCROSSROADS CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATIONS INCORPORATED — C$92,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION CANADA — C$91,600 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$85,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHOPE MISSION — C$84,206 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEvangelical World Outreach of Canada — C$81,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetADEARA RECOVERY CENTRE — C$79,790 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPrison Fellowship International Canada — C$60,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTrinity Western University — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PAOC FOUNDATION — C$47,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY EDMONTON CENTRE OF HOPE — C$38,900 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetCRYSTAL KIDS YOUTH CENTRE — C$38,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetRATANAK INTERNATIONAL — C$34,300 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHungry for Life International — C$27,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetB'NAI BRITH OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSANCTUARY MENTAL HEALTH SOCIETY — C$16,900 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetKids Kottage Foundation — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPower To Change Ministries — C$13,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL DISCIPLES CANADA — C$11,250 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHERITAGE CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ASSOCIATION — C$10,685 over 2y, 22% of budgetWycliffe Bible Translators of Canada Inc. — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOttawa Regional Cancer Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIMAGE — C$10,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetICEJ CANADA AID AND DEVELOPMENT — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL NEEDS CANADA — C$8,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetIMPACT MINISTRIES — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGIVEWISE FOUNDATION CANADA — C$7,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KING'S UNIVERSITY — C$6,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFocus on the Family (Canada) Association — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stewardship foundation of Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHOPE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTeen Time of Edmonton — C$2,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWEST EDMONTON CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorquest College Foundation — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION WITHOUT BORDERS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT NATIONS INTERNATIONAL MINISTRIES — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Augustine's Parkland — C$700 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Link Charity Canada I…Canadian National Chr…The Sawatzky Specialt…Abundance CanadaNicola Wealth Private…Edmonton Oilers Commu…Saint John's School o…The Charis FoundationButler Family Foundat…Christian Stewardship…United Way of the Alb…Beulah Alliance Churc…
Link Charity Canada IncON12.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Link Charity Canada Inc · Canadian National Christian Foundation · The Sawatzky Specialties Foundation · Abundance Canada · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Saint John's School of Alberta Legacy Foundation · The Charis Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · Christian Stewardship Services · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Beulah Alliance Church of 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.

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 53 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 868486499:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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