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Waterloo, ON · Charitable organization

Trillium Lutheran Church

This community of faith is a worshipping learning witnessing and serving community of baptized persons among whom the Word is proclaimed and the Sacraments are administered according to the Gospel and whose existence is recognized by the ELCIC.

C$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$39k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$700
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$39k
C$610
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Eastern Synod of the ELCICC$38,620
Waterloo Lutheran SeminaryC$610
Indwell Community HomesC$90
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$367k · 7 repeat orgsC$73k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
11

Total granted

C$367k
C$73k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+39%

Still filing today

71%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$90 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

  • ES
    Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church In Canada
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$179k · revenue +14%
  • CL
    Canadian Lutheran World Relief
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$57k · revenue +65%
  • TF
    The Food Bank of Waterloo Region
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$3k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • ES
    EASTERN SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA
    one grant, 2018 · C$36k
  • ES
    EASTERN SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA
    one grant, 2017 · C$35k
  • AS
    ALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue +10%

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
Lutheran Homes Kitchener-Waterloo

Provide and operate non-profit residential accommodation and incidental facilities there to exclusive for: 1) person with low income 2) senior citizen of low/modest income and who have varying degree of special needs 3) disabled person of…

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2
Luther Home

Luther home operates an 80 bed personal care home for the elderly and physically handicapped. luther home also operates two subsidized elderly persons housing projects.

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3
Good Samaritan Canada (a Lutheran Social Services Organization)

Operating long term care nursing homes licensed care and assisted living care homes and related support programs. primarily for seniors with limited care beds for young adults.some senior housing also provided under the guidlines of the…

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4
Lutheran Social Services (Owen Sound)

Affordable housing for seniors low-income & those with disabilities

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5
Blue Water Rest Home

Blue Water Rest Home(BWRH) provides 24/7 care and services to our residents as well as shelter for low and middle income seniors. BWRH operates a 65 bed charitable long-term care home and we manage 35 units of one-bedroom apartments and 2…

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6
Conrad Grebel University College

Conrad Grebel University College is founded by the Mennonite church and affiliated with the University of Waterloo. The mission and programs of Grebel are rooted in and and inspired by its Christian identity and its Anabaptist/Mennonite…

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7
Mennonite Benevolent Society

Menno Hospital - long-term care home 135 beds Menno Hospital - convalescent care 16 beds Menno Home - long-term care home 196 beds Menno Housing - senior supportive living 220 beds Menno Terrace East - assisted living 95 beds

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8
Heartwood Place

Provide safe affordable and adequate housing to three sites in the region of waterloo

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9
Lutheran Senior Citizens Housing Society

Shelter and care of the aged infirm and disabled people of the community and fraser valley with funding from the province of british columbia via fraser health authority under the continuing care program.

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10
Lookout Housing and Health Society

Lookout is a multi-service agency providing a broad array of social services to low-income and homeless persons including emergency shelter programs drop-in extreme weather response (ewr) shelters supportive housing outreach programs…

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11
Canadian Mental Health Association Vernon and District Branch

Mental Health Awareness and Educational programs: Mental Health First Aid SafeTalk Assist and Suicide Awareness courses; therapeutic programs for individuals experiencing mental health issues; subsidized meal programs; job support and life…

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12
Okanagan Mental Health Services Society

Assisted living program - operation of five centrally located community-based assisted living homes throughout the kelowna area. each home accommodates six to seven residents. each home is staffed throughout the day to offer support and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Luthern Church in Canada / Synode De L'est De L'eglise Evangelique Lutherienne Au Canada and the most unlike its peers is Saint Monica House. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
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$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church In Canada — C$179,168 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCanadian Lutheran World Relief — C$57,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetThe Food Bank of Waterloo Region — C$2,620 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWaterloo Lutheran Seminary — C$2,354 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK-W WORKING CENTRE FOR THE UNEMPLOYED — C$1,005 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA SYNOD OF THE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Support Connections — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANAADIAN MEDICAL FOUNDATION — C$425 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMonica's Place — C$260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIndwell Community Homes — C$90 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLutherwood — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORTIVE HOUSING OF WATERLOO REGION — C$45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSalvation Army — C$25 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlue Sea Philanthropy Inc. — C$20 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt. John's Christian Child-Care Centre — C$20 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.

Waterloo Region Commu…Social Venture Partne…United Way Waterloo R…Abundance CanadaMy Tribute Gift Found…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Waterloo Region Community FoundationON8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Social Venture Partners Waterloo Region · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Abundance Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.

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 19 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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 845814615:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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