Red Deer, AB · Charitable organization
The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd of Red Deer
Christian Ministries Adult & Children's Christian Education Youth work Councelling Christian Outreach Support of other ministries and Social Agencies.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k10 grants · C$3k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELCIC Synod of Alberta and the Territories | C$20,390 |
| Canadian Lutheran World Relief | C$700 |
| Sylvan Lake Lutheran Bible Camp Association | C$511 |
| Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute | C$300 |
| Lutheran Collegiate Bible Institute | C$300 |
| Lutheran Theological Seminary | C$300 |
| The Mustard Seed | C$250 |
| Red Deer Food Bank Society | C$218 |
| Shalom Couselling | C$200 |
| Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre | C$60 |
| Red Deer Christmas Bureau Society | C$20 |
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$591 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
- ESELCIC SYNOD OF ALBERTA AND TERRITORIES7× · 2017–2024 · C$142k · revenue +10%
- CLCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF8× · 2017–2024 · C$14k · revenue +56%
- LCLutheran Collegiate Bible Institute8× · 2017–2024 · C$2k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- ESELCIC Synod of Alberta and Territoriesone grant, 2022 · C$22k
- CLCanadian Lutheran Bible Instone grant, 2017 · C$200
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.
Alberta bible college is a post secondary educational institution awarding four-year degrees two-year diplomas and one-year certificates in christian ministries. a two-year degree completion program in christian leadership or counselling…
Concordia lutheran seminary is an institution of theological higher education dedicated primarily to the preparation of students for he pastoral ministry of lutheran church-canada and beyond. concordia lutheran seminary a seminary of…
Provide theological education to canadian students via the institute of lutheran theology
Christian Ministries Adult & Children's Christian Education Youth work Councelling Christian Outreach Support of other ministries and Social Agencies. Support National Church - mission work and Worldwide Relief Support of National and…
Luther college operates an independent boarding/day school that provides education for students from grade 9 to 12 following the saskatchewan school curriculum as well as the international baccalaureate program. luther college also…
The Association is a national church body comprised of Canadian member congregations and individuals. The Association unites serves equips encourages and empowers congregations and individuals who share a common belief. The association…
Weekly worship services christian education for children youth and adults pastoral care community outreach financial support for the alberta synod of the evangelical lutheran church in canada
A community church serving god through christian-centred learning including the following programs: weekly worship sunday school bible studies and prayer ministries.
Provides weekly worship and Christian fellowship groups pastoral care and crisis support for students Bible Study programs leadership of faith-based housing community and supervision of Campus Centre weekly and drop-in programs. Provides a…
1. religious advancement 2. financial support for ministry to minorities in canada 3. financial support for ministry work outside of canada 4. financial support for education in theology through grants to lutheran seminaries in canada 5.…
To be a caring spiritually growing and family oriented congregation promoting the Gospel of Jesus Christ through discipleship contemporary worship and community service.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mustard Seed Society and the most unlike its peers is The Red Deer Christmas Bureau Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 14 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 ELCIC SYNOD OF ALBERTA AND TERRITORIES ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Collegiate Bible Institute ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Theological Seminary ↗
- Who funds Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute ↗
- Who funds THE MUSTARD SEED ↗
- Who funds Shalom Councelling ↗
- Who funds Sylvan Lake Lutheran Bible Camp Association ↗
- Who funds Red Deer Food Bank Society ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds Central Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre ↗
- Who funds Red Deer Christmas Bureau Society ↗
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: St. Paul's Lutheran Church of Olds · Grace Lutheran Church · Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sundre · Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada · St. John Lutheran Church · Charitus · The Calgary Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.