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Guelph, ON · Private foundation

The Damascus Road Foundation

We receive and maintain a fund or funds and apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom to qualified donees by way of charitable grants.

C$8.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$926k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$12k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$192k
  • C$50k–250k21 grants · C$2.8M
  • C$250k+13 grants · C$5.3M
C$175,481
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$242M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sprint-Pioneers Ministries Inc.C$925,548
Canadian Bible SocietyC$590,000
Power to Change MinistriesC$529,453
Wycliffe Bible Translators of CanadaC$435,564
Baptist General Conference of CanadaC$400,000
Canadian National Christian FoundationC$381,044
Partners International CanadaC$350,000
Thru the Bible Radio NetworkC$299,991
Outreach Canada Ministries Inc.C$283,000
Message to All NationsC$275,000
Fellowship of Evangelical BaptistC$270,746
Trans World Radio CanadaC$265,531
Pioneers CanadaC$250,000
The Bible League of CanadaC$247,536
Frontiers - Friends in FormationC$225,031
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$31M · 45 repeat orgsC$825k to everyone else

45 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
5

Total granted

C$31M
C$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+26%

Still filing today

98%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$738k 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

  • PT
    Power to Change Ministries
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$4.2M · revenue +24%
  • SM
    SPRINT-PIONEERS MINISTRIES INC.
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$4.0M · revenue +45%
  • BG
    BAPTIST GENERAL CONFERENCE OF CANADA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$1.5M · revenue +22% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • HS
    HOPE STORYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$29k · revenue +34%
  • CB
    Canadian Baptist Ministriesgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$24k · revenue +26%
  • GA
    Global Aid Network
    one grant, 2019 · C$17k · revenue -5%

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.

1
Bic Canada - Global

Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…

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2
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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3
Training Leaders International Canada

To provide training and teaching to Christian church leaders around the world.

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4
Chinese International Missions (Canada)

Provide education and encouragement to developing countries conduct seminars and provide overseas short-term mission trops to christians recruit and train missionaries to work

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5
Global Christian Ministries

Developing ministries and christian leadership by training pastors and lay workers funding missionary outreach program including attendance by chairman in countries where mission work is done

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6
Christian Reformed World Missions of Canada

Christian Reformed World Missions is the international evangelism ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. Activities include evangelism, discipleship, and missions programs around the world.

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7
AngelOne Canada

Conducts missionary work in the developing countries

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8
International Missions in Ontario Inc.

Our aim is to create God-honouring transformation in communities where He is not worshiped. We prepare and train our workers and volunteers to establish groups of Christ followers in areas where there are presently none both within and…

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9
Partners Worldwide Canada

Mobilize long term hands on global relationships to form a powerful christian network that uses business as the way to create flourishing economic environments in all parts of the world.

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10
DestiNations International of Canada

Training missionaries including language school in preparation for church planting activities

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11
Christian Education Ministries International

To promote Christian Education world-wide in order to help make disciples of Jesus Christ and to educate the church in North America about cultures by creating opportunities for them to interact to actively participate in meeting people's…

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12
Asian Outreach International (Canada)

1. Teaching the Word of God and preaching the Gospel of Jesus 2. Working with Individual missionaries and mission organizations engaged in the propagation of Jesus Christ 3. Direct evangelism and discipleship of national Christians

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sim Canada and the most unlike its peers is Canada Institute of Linguistics. 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

56 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. 56 of the 58 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
33/56
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPower to Change Ministries — C$4,167,846 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetSPRINT-PIONEERS MINISTRIES INC. — C$3,966,717 over 5y, 19% of budgetTRANS WORLD RADIO CANADA — C$1,563,441 over 6y, 10% of budgetBAPTIST GENERAL CONFERENCE OF CANADA — C$1,546,262 over 5y, 28% of budgetOPERATION MOBILIZATION CANADA — C$1,527,437 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetWycliffe Bible Translators of Canada — C$1,492,283 over 6y, 17% of budgetPartners International Canada — C$1,213,741 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetRESOURCE PARTNERS SRG CANADA INC. — C$1,163,829 over 3y, 68% of budgetAlpha Ministries Canada — C$1,156,500 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetSIM Canada — C$920,674 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetOutreach Canada Ministries Inc. — C$898,216 over 5y, 11% of budgetFrontiers - Friends in Formation — C$888,072 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN RESPONSE — C$855,087 over 5y, 18% of budgetCanadian Bible Society — C$827,616 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetMessage to All Nations — C$755,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetThru the Bible Radio Network — C$615,064 over 5y, 22% of budgetONEBOOK - GLOBAL PARTNERLINK SOCIETY — C$564,947 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetTHE PENTECOSTAL ASSEMBLIES OF CANADA/LES ASSEMBLÉES DE LA PE — C$562,319 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetAFRICAN INLAND MISSION INTERNATIONAL (CANADA) — C$522,401 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetGlobal Disciples Canada — C$472,662 over 4y, 27% of budgetThe Bible League of Canada — C$443,840 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCanadian National Christian Foundation — C$381,044 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMULTIPLY Network — C$377,613 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFellowship of Evangelical Baptist — C$366,996 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMEDICAL MINISTRY INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$320,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL — C$305,000 over 5y, 67% of budgetInternational Christian Mission Services — C$282,465 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetMessage Trust Canada Foundation — C$262,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetHarvest of Hope Society — C$260,000 over 3y, 49% of budgetApostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada Inc. — C$238,100 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetYOUTH WITH A MISSION FOUNDATION — C$222,590 over 2y, 0.8% of budgete3 Ministry Canada — C$200,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetEmpart Canada — C$162,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetMULTI-NATION MISSIONS FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE CHURCH IN CANADA/L'ALL — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPETROS NETWORK — C$144,713 over 2y, 50% of budgetWORLD OUTREACH COMMUNICATIONS SOCIETY — C$132,638 over 2y, 32% of budgetEthnos Canada — C$125,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBMMF/International Service Fellowship — C$122,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetAvant Ministries Canada — C$114,759 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUnion d'églises baptistes francophones — C$100,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetNORTHWIND FAMILY MINISTRIES — C$100,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetSTEP INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$81,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetOMS International - Canada — C$80,744 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGlobal Gates Network of Canada — C$75,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Evangelical Alliance Mission — C$71,700 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSamaritan's Purse Canada — C$51,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanada Institute of Linguistics — C$41,710 over 3y, 1.1% 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.

World Charitable Foun…The Charis FoundationCanadian National Chr…Acts of Grace Foundat…Abundance CanadaThe Foundation Office…Givewise Foundation C…Christian Stewardship…The Evangelical Coven…The Buller Foundation…Bridgeway FoundationPeoples Ministries In…
World Charitable Foundation of CanadaON17.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: World Charitable Foundation of Canada · The Charis Foundation · Canadian National Christian Foundation · Acts of Grace Foundation · Abundance Canada · The Foundation Office.Ca · Givewise Foundation Canada · Christian Stewardship Services · The Evangelical Covenant Church of Canada · The Buller Foundation Inc. · Bridgeway Foundation · Peoples Ministries Inc.

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 58 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 advancing religion.

Source object 706656329:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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