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Stony Plain, AB · Private foundation

The Sawatzky Specialties Foundation

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C$504k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$110k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$50k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$209k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$245k
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIVING WATERS CHRISTIAN ACADEMYC$110,000
SPRUCE GROVE ALLIANCE CHURCHC$85,000
IDE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES ASSOCIATION INC.C$50,000
THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATIONC$44,000
SAMARITAN'S PURSEC$35,000
CHILDCARE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETYC$18,000
IMPACT MINISTRIES CANADAC$15,000
BETTER TOGETHER LIBERIAC$15,000
HUNGRY FOR LIFEC$12,000
WORLD MISSION CONTINUUM SOCIETYC$10,000
TURNING POINT FOR GOD OF CANADAC$10,000
SPRUCE GROVE COMMUNITY CHURCHC$10,000
ENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL CANADAC$10,000
MULLY CHILDREN'S FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
FOCUS ON THE FAMILY ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.4M · 33 repeat orgsC$285k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
26

Total granted

C$3.4M
C$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k 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

  • SG
    Spruce Grove Alliance Church
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$710k · revenue +29%
  • LW
    LIVING WATERS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$554k · revenue +21%
  • TB
    The Ben Sawatzky Foundation
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$268k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SAMARITAIN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$46k
  • BB
    BASICALLY BABIES LTD.
    one grant, 2023 · C$17k
  • SG
    SPRUCE GOVE COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k

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
Shelter Canada

Building houses for the needy in El Salvador. Day-to-day financial activity goes through The Great Commission Foundation.

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2
Helping Hands International

1. Conducting outreach to distribute necessities of life to the poor and underprivileged and to demonstrate the love of God to them in practical ways. Establishing relationships through meeting needs then opens the door for instruction and…

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3
Every Home for Christ International/Canada

Christian philanthropic work that provides: - Evangelism and discipleship strategies and resources for churches and individuals - Support for children in various nations

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4
Christian Life Tv International

Mission outreach to provide housing food and medical assistance.

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5
Casa De Luz Outreach Ministries

Casa de luz outreach ministries operates global christian mission progams by training and sending short and long-term missionaries to developing nations. cdl outreach ministries equips and mobilizes people prayer and resources towards this…

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6
Multiply Network

The organization operates global Christian mission programs by training and sending missionaries and church planting teams to all parts of the world. MULTIPLY Network builds the capacity of national leaders to contribute in the same ways.…

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7
Breakthrough Ministries International

1. Held Christian conferences to educate and raise awareness of children at risk and to raise funds for aid programs.

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8
The Mustard Seed Society

The mustard seed is a christian charitable organization that is servicing vulnerable citizens in alberta and british columbia. in calgary the charity offers an expansive range of innovative programs and services including education and…

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9
Impacthope

We are a faith based organization partnering with national christian leaders. together we develop sustainable projects that address the cycle of poverty. our efforts include the construction of a hospital in guatemala; two children homes…

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10
'the God who sees me' Missions Inc.

Provide and develop ministries to support and sponsor children in other countries support of missionaries sponsor refugees provide humanitarian relief and alleviate poverty establish ministries provide and operate housing drop-in centres…

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11
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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12
Strategic Ministry Partnerships - Canada

Relieving poverty in developing nations by providing food and other necessities of life including access to education for children of families who are poor of low income or in need.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Samaritan's Purse - Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Association for Evergreen Youth. 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

59 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. 59 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
40/59
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSpruce Grove Alliance Church — C$710,000 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetLIVING WATERS CHRISTIAN ACADEMY — C$553,736 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetTHE SAMARITIAN FOUNDATION — C$367,500 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetIDE INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT ENTERPRISES ASSOCIATION INC. — C$295,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetThe Ben Sawatzky Foundation — C$267,667 over 4y, 16% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — C$240,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetFocus on the Family Association — C$94,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMULLY CHILDREN'S FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTEACH BEYOND INC — C$76,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDCARE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY — C$73,440 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTURNING POINT FOR GOD OF CANADA — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSPRUCE GROVE COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$50,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBASICALLY BABIES LTD. — C$48,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetPARKLAND FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$42,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$42,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPromised Land Ministries — C$40,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetRising Above Abuse Counselling Agency — C$38,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetBETTER TOGETHER LIBERIA — C$35,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetIMPACT MINISTRIES CANADA — C$33,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALDERA RECOVERY CENTRE — C$29,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$28,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetTHE DUNCANAFRICA SOCIETY — C$22,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetHOPE MISSION — C$21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY OF EDMONTON — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENGINEERING MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCANADIAN YOUTH AND COMMUNITY LIFE TRANSFORMATION FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBEACH CORNER EVANGELICAL FREE CHURCH — C$13,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHUNGRY FOR LIFE — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREHOBOTH CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES ASSOCIATION — C$10,240 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MISSION CONTINUUM SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetInterVarsity Christian Fellowship — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMS CANADA SP CANADA — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE WARRIORS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADAHELPS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRATHCONA SHELTER SOCIETY LTD. — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBISSEL CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREHOBOTH CHRISTIAN MINISTRIES FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S ABILITY FUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetTHE REFUGE MISSION FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSUNRISE COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$9,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE MASTER'S FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNRIGHBOURLINK PARKLAND — C$7,500 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHouse of Refuge Mission — C$7,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetFEED MY LAMBS STREET MISSION INC. — C$5,500 over 2y, 21% of budgetOuteach for Life Association — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEdmonton Mennonite Centre for Newcomers — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KING'S UNIVERSITY — 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.

The Edmonton Communit…Beulah Alliance Churc…United Way of the Alb…Alberta Blue Cross He…The Ben Sawatzky Foun…The Leder Charitable …Atco Electric EpicBlue Sea Philanthropy…Edmonton Oilers Commu…West End Christian Re…Bethel Christian Refo…West Edmonton Christi…
The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv ActAB13.6× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Beulah Alliance Church of Edmonton · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue · The Ben Sawatzky Foundation · The Leder Charitable Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc. · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · West End Christian Reformed Church · Bethel Christian Reformed Church of Edmonton · West Edmonton Christian Assembly

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 65 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 868491093:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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