St. Albert, AB · Charitable organization
The North-American Lutheran Church - Canada Section
To preach teach promote disseminate advance demonstrate encourage and implement the gospel of jesus christ and related truths of the holy bible.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k6 grants · C$23k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MOVE TO MISSIONS | C$12,000 |
| LCBI HIGH SCHOOL | C$5,000 |
| WILDERNESS RANCH | C$5,000 |
| CANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE | C$5,000 |
| MALAWI ORPHAN CARE PROJECT | C$4,000 |
| L.A.M.P | C$2,000 |
| KUWALA CHRISTIAN GIRLS SCHOOL | C$2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 81% of grant dollars (C$102k). The 19% that went abroad (C$24k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 19% of all-years giving (C$24k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +48% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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
- MTMOVE TO MISSIONS2× · 2019–2024 · C$16k · revenue +94%
- WRWILDERNESS RANCH3× · 2022–2024 · C$15k · revenue +2%
- CLCONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY3× · 2019–2023 · C$12k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- TWTHE WILDERNESS RANCH OF CLARESHOLMone grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue -2%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Lutheran Bible Institute 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.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 CANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MOVE TO MISSIONS ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS RANCH ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds KUWALA CHRISTIAN GIRLS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS RANCH OF CLARESHOLM ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN COLLEGIATE BIBLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds LAMP - LUTHERAN ASSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES AND PILOTS ↗
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: PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.