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Millarville, AB · Private foundation

The Rising Light Foundation

The primary goal and purpose of the foundation is to create manage and build endowment funds for charitable organizations and other charities.

C$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$30,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMPOWER MINISTRIESC$30,000
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 4 repeat orgsC$14k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +172% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+172%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • EM
    Empower Ministries
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$952k · revenue +172%
  • JC
    Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$18k · revenue +365%
  • SE
    Soul edge
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$6k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • CC
    Canadian Centre for Home Education
    one grant, 2018 · C$6k · revenue -48%
  • GB
    GATEWAY BIBLE CHURCH
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +23%
  • TC
    Trinity Christian School Association
    one grant, 2018 · C$2k · revenue +6%

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
Gateway Ministries International

(1) oversea and local missionaries (2) bible study (3) pastoral counselling and preaching

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2
Gateway International Ministries
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3
Gateway Christian Ministries

Worship services training in the scriptures religious doctrines & disciplines counselling services; relief to the needy education programs prayer ministry & service children's & youth programs orphanage support.

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4
Going Beyond Missions

Missionary trainings On-line and On-site mission trips Church planting trainings

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5
Ces China Evangelical Seminary Society

Christian education

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6
Seed International Mission of Canada (Seed Canada)

Missionary training -bible studies

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7
Wings As Eagles Ministry

Bible education recovery ministry prayer ministry missions to africa pakistan india

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8
Grace Bible Church

Religious education

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9
Bridges Beyond International Ministries

Training qualified leaders from around world to effectively evangelize other national christians.

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10
Liberty International Ministries Inc.

Conduct gospel outreaches provide study materials for educational discipleship prayer and bible teaching

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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
Taking the Gospel Ministries

Publishing missionary organizations evangelism social outreach religious fellowship

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Canadian Centre for Home Education. 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

10 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. 10 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
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$100kC$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEmpower Ministries — C$952,449 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetFull Gospel Church of Calgary — C$132,239 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetJustice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms — C$18,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSoul edge — C$6,400 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCanadian Centre for Home Education — C$6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGATEWAY BIBLE CHURCH — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTrinity Christian School Association — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARVEST BIBLE CHURCH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUIP INTERNATIONAL RECOVERY GROUP — C$500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBIBLES FOR THE POOR SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 2.0% 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.

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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 11 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 823408695:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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