Pincher Creek, AB · Charitable organization
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church
Provide weekly and special worship services bible studies sunday school confirmation and adult education classes provide counselling services (through the pastor) to congregats and the community as a whole.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUTHERAN WOMENS MISSIONARY LEAGUE | C$320 |
| PINCHER CREEK AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK | C$150 |
| LUTHERAN CHURCH OF SOUTH SUDBAN | C$95 |
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 +19% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$245 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
- CLCONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY7× · 2017–2023 · C$3k · revenue +48%
- LWLUTHERAN WOMENS MISSIONARY LEAGUE6× · 2017–2024 · C$1k · revenue +57%
- GSGood Samaritan Society Vista Village2× · 2017–2018 · C$70 · revenue +12%
Funded once
- CLCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF FOR UKRAINEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +51%
- WRWILDERNESS RANCH OF CLARESHOLMone grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +19%
- BCBaptist Church of Pincher Creekgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue +116%
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.
Summer overnight and day camps for children youth and adults. weekend retreats for children and youth. renting of facilities to guest groups for conference retreats and workshops.
Children's day camp and other children's programming youth programming seniors programming community events recreational facilities and sports fields for campers and families worship services and sports activities faith-based activities
Worship services sunday school summerr camp youth group
Operating camps for the benefit of people of all ages Retreats and rentals and recreation experience for groups supportive of our mission and values
preaching and teaching the word of God to members of the congregation by holding regular. Sunday worship services Sunday School bible study and vacation bible school. Raise funds for ongoing mission work in other parts of the world.
Worship services sunday school youth groups bible studies daily vacation bible school marriage course supporting various missionaries and bible camps.
Weekly christian worship service adult and youth bible studies sunday school for preschool and grade school children perform baptisms marriages and funerals confirmation/adult inquiry classes domestic mission work annual vacation bible…
Weekly Sunday Services Sunday School Baptism and ELW Bible Studies confirmation classes
Run weekly worship services provide bible study ministries & teaching for men women and children supporting church mission work and other mission activities social outreach programs offer pastoral care and counseling service
Weekly worship service bible study groups sunday school vacation bible school
Worship services sunday school youth groups bible study vacation bible school mission trips
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is L.a.M.P.- Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots Inc./L.a.M.P.- L'association Lutherienne Des Missionnaires Et Aviateurs Inc. and the most unlike its peers is The Good Samaritan Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 16 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 CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF FOR UKRAINE ↗
- Who funds WILDERNESS RANCH OF CLARESHOLM ↗
- Who funds Baptist Church of Pincher Creek ↗
- Who funds Vertical Church of Pincher Creek ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN WOMENS MISSIONARY LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Mill Creek Camp ↗
- Who funds WALNUT GROVE LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds LAMP ↗
- Who funds Good Samaritan Society Vista Village ↗
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: Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries · 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.