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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Lao's Family Charitable Trust

Provided undergraduate and graduate level scholarships to qualified individuals at designated educational institutions.

C$27M
Granted FY2021
32
Grants FY2021
3
Regions reached
C$26M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$26k
  • C$10k–50k22 grants · C$500k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$230k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$26M
C$24,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$29k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KOINONIA CHARITABLE TRUSTC$26,352,761
TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITYC$70,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATION INC. OF CANADAC$55,000
ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL MINISTRIESC$55,000
TYNDALE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE & SEMINARYC$50,000
THE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATIONC$45,000
PRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTEC$40,000
GOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS -C$35,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL RELIEFC$35,000
FAR EAST BROADCASTING ASSOCIATES OF CANADAC$35,000
THE FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL BAPTIST CHURCHES OF CANADAC$30,000
OPEN DOORS CANADAC$30,000
SEND INTERNATIONAL OF CANADA INC.C$25,000
AMBROSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGEC$25,000
GO AND LOVE FOUNDATION CANADAC$25,000
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.

11%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.1M · 27 repeat orgsC$26M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
4

Total granted

C$3.1M
C$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+23%

Still filing today

96%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 3% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$26M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
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

  • TW
    TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$320k · revenue +60%
  • CC
    CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATION INC. OF CANADA
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$245k · revenue +9%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL MINISTRIES
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$230k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • PB
    PRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2020 · C$40k
  • WB
    WYLCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS OF CANADA INC
    one grant, 2017 · C$20k · revenue +23%
  • BI
    BMMF INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP
    one grant, 2020 · C$18k · revenue +7%

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
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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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
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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4
Chineses Coordination Centre of World Evangelism (Canada)

Coordinate pastors to strengthen their ministry in local churches and promote world mission among chinese churches in canada. helping the potential missionaries in the local churches into world evangelisztion wide. coordinate local…

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5
China Evangelistic Mission (Canada)

We recruit send support canadian missionaries. we send regular newsletters to canadian churches & supporters. we promote missions among canadian churches & participate in mission conferences. we conduct missions workshops & share in…

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6
China Evangelical Seminary (Canada)

1. to support develop organize conduct and provide theological education and related programs courses and classes meetings bible studies training seminars on-site visits field trips workshops seminars symposiums and conferences through…

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7
Global Disciples Canada

We exist to preach and advance the teachings of the Christian faith and the religious tenets doctrines and observances by providing consultation instructional material curriculum development and best practices; and to propagate the…

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8
Chinese Overseas Christian Mission Canada

1) distribute christian literatures to evangelical churches and individuals 2) organize events to promote missionary work locally as well as in europe 3) send pastors and evangelical team to europe for long and short term missions.

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9
Christian International of Canada Inc

1. proclaiming the gospel of jesus christ in canada and abroad and training and preparing workers for service. 2. operating ministries normal to a local church in various communities and ordaining individuals for ministry. 3. conducting…

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10
Asialink Ministries

Assisting the local church in canada and asia by providing literature information and training.

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11
Seed International Mission of Canada (Seed Canada)

Missionary training -bible studies

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Evangelical Alliance Mission of Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Ambrose 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

36 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. 36 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
27/36
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 budgetTRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITY — C$320,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNICATION INC. OF CANADA — C$245,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetASSOCIATION OF CHRISTIAN EVANGELICAL MINISTRIES — C$230,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTYNDALE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE & SEMINARY — C$210,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$197,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGOSPEL OPERATION INTERNATIONAL FOR CHINESE CHRISTIANS - — C$175,000 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE INTERNATIONAL RELIEF — C$170,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAR EAST BROADCASTING ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$149,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetOPEN DOORS CANADA — C$145,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGRACE TO CHINESE INTERNATIONAL INC. — C$140,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetPRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTE — C$125,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FELLOWSHIP OF EVANGELICAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF CANADA — C$122,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGO AND LOVE FOUNDATION CANADA — C$120,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetAMBROSE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — C$120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIVING WATER COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$90,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetSEND INTERNATIONAL OF CANADA INC. — C$80,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMSI CANADA CHRISTIAN MISSION SOCIETY — C$65,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetWORLD TEAM — C$64,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPOWER TO CHANGE MINISTRIES — C$62,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE BIBLE SEMINARY CENTRE OF CANADA — C$55,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetASSOCIATION OF CANADIAN CHINESE THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION — C$50,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetINTERCEDE INTERNATIONAL — C$47,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCOMPASSION CANADA — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOMF INTERNATIONAL - CANADA — C$29,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWYLCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS OF CANADA INC — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBMMF INTERNATIONAL SERVICE FELLOWSHIP — C$18,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAMBASSADORS FOR CHRIST IN CANADA — C$16,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJFJ HOPE CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTHE EVANGELICAL ALLIANCE MISSION OF CANADA, INC — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR DAILY BREAD MINISTRIES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE CHRISTIAN HERALD — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SCOTT MISSION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYONGE STREET MISSION — C$5,000 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.

Koinonia Charitable T…Association of Christ…Link Charity Canada I…West Toronto Christia…Stone Bridge Baptist …Hallelujah Chinese Ev…Toronto Chinese Metho…Markham Chinese Bapti…Canadian National Chr…Scarborough Mandarin …Good Shepherd's Chine…Operation Dawn Canada
Koinonia Charitable TrustON16.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Koinonia Charitable Trust · Association of Christian Evangelical Ministries (Canada) · Link Charity Canada Inc · West Toronto Christian Community Church · Stone Bridge Baptist Church · Hallelujah Chinese Evangelical Free Church Inc. · Toronto Chinese Methodist Church · Markham Chinese Baptist Church · Canadian National Christian Foundation · Scarborough Mandarin Alliance Church of the Christian & Missionary Alliance in Canada · Good Shepherd's Chinese Christian Church · Operation Dawn Canada

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 38 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 2021-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 889824629:2021-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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