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Gunn, AB · Private foundation

The Vanderwell Family Foundation

The Vanderwell Family Foundation is involved in the following programs / activities to support its purpose to make donations to qualified donees as contemplated under the income tax act (canada)

C$310k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$22k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$218k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$70k
C$18,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$874
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MISSION EURASIA CANADAC$69,900
THE GATHERING PLACEC$48,000
THE SAMARITAN FOUNDATIONC$42,000
BLAZING FAITH MINISTRIES ASSOCIATIONC$36,000
PARKLAND PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTRE (TREASURE CHESTC$28,000
SLAVE LAKE NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTERC$20,000
EDMONTON IMPACT GOSPEL MINISTRIESC$18,000
FULL GOSPEL BUSINESS MEN'S FELLOWSHIP IN CANADAC$15,000
HOPE MISSIONC$11,000
ALMONR TREE MINISTRIESC$7,000
LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE SOCIETYC$5,000
PEMBINA BIBLE CAMP FELLOWSHIPC$5,000
ROSS HAVEN BIBLE CAMPC$5,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.0M · 12 repeat orgsC$35k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
3

Total granted

C$1.0M
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+2%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$16k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TG
    THE GATHERING PLACE
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$152k · revenue +46%
  • AT
    ALMOND TREE MINISTRIES
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$101k · revenue +24% · 30% of their budget
  • BF
    BLAZING FAITH MINISTRIES ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$100k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • MM
    MARKETPLACE MISSION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +2%
  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · C$8k · revenue +5%
  • SL
    SLAVE LAKE HOSPITAL AUXILIARY
    one grant, 2022 · C$950 · revenue -95%

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
Gospel Mission

Mission services - outreach meals and feeding programs Church services - congregation meetings place of worship bible study shower facility youth outreach

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2
Teen Ranch Ministries

The organization's purpose is to preach teach advance disseminate and demonstrate the gospel of jesus christ and the related truths of the holy bible to people everywhere.

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3
Gospel Fire International Ministry

Youth conferences Worship services Leadership and Evangelism.

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4
Peace Mission Chapel Association

Sunday worship services sunday school youth group junior youth group weekly bible studies ladies outreach vacation bible school

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5
Breaking Limits Ministries

Our mission is to bring transforming change to individuals communities and nations. Ongoing programs include encounter meetings training and equipping leaders through mentorship conducting mission outreach and providing other resources to…

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6
Christ Exalted Ministries

Sunday services mid week bible study mid week prayer meeting ladies and men's retreats and breakfast meetings overseas mission

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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
Peace Covenant Ministries Incorporated

Church Services Retreats and Youth Fellowships

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9
Life Restoration Ministries

Provides counselling services retreats workshops consultation podcasting personal mentoring and christian faith formation.

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10
Living Hope Ministries
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11
Living Faith Evangelistic Association

Living Faith Evangelistic Association serves Christ's Kingdom by making disciples through Spirit-filled and ministry-oriented biblical and theological education faith renewing camps and retreats and domestic and international mission…

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12
Peace House International Ministry

Advancing the Kingdom of God through Soul Winning evangelism outreaches and Church planting. Worship & bible study. Provides aid to Peace House International Satellite Churches in 5 countries. Provide aid to low-income persons. Counselling…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship in Canada and the most unlike its peers is Slave Lake Hospital Auxiliary Memorial Fund. 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

17 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
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 budgetMISSION EURASIA CANADA — C$173,400 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetTHE GATHERING PLACE — C$152,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE SAMARITAN FOUNDATION — C$120,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetALMOND TREE MINISTRIES — C$100,965 over 3y, 30% of budgetBLAZING FAITH MINISTRIES ASSOCIATION — C$100,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetVOICE OF REVIVAL MINISTRIES — C$100,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetPARKLAND PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTRE (TREASURE CHEST — C$82,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetFULL GOSPEL BUSINESS MEN'S FELLOWSHIP IN CANADA — C$56,000 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetSLAVE LAKE NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTER — C$50,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetEDMONTON IMPACT GOSPEL MINISTRIES — C$49,000 over 4y, 37% of budgetPEMBINA BIBLE CAMP FELLOWSHIP — C$15,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetHOPE MISSION — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARKETPLACE MISSION SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetROSS HAVEN BIBLE CAMP — C$10,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — C$8,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLIGHT UP YOUR LIFE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSLAVE LAKE HOSPITAL AUXILIARY — C$950 over 1y, 2.8% 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 17 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 772395679:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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