Edmonton, AB · Charitable organization
Vanguard College
The college is a theological college that prepares its students for Christian vocational and lay leadership.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$614
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada | C$32,200 |
| Youth Rise | C$307 |
| Kids on Track | C$307 |
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.
5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$614 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
- PAPentecostal Assemblies of Canada5× · 2020–2024 · C$193k · revenue +19%
- TOTEAM of Canada4× · 2017–2020 · C$32k · revenue +27%
- IBINSTITUT BIBLIQUE DU QUEBEC2× · 2017–2019 · C$7k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- EERDOone grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue +12%
- AOAssociation of Biblical Higher Educationone grant, 2020 · C$272
- RARandom Access Networkgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$100 · revenue +26%
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.
The charity is a church which carried out the following activities: 1. worship services 2. christian education classes - day camps for children activities for youth 3. bible studies 4. benevolence to the poor 5. spiritual support for the…
Places of worship congregation and summer camps
We hold weekly worship services. We provide weekly ministries for adults youths and children. We hold weekly prayer meetings and bible studies. We provide pastoral care and counseling. We provide fellowship for individual believers and…
Worship services for both english and cantonese congregations from children to adults. fellowships and small group gatherings. provide gatherings for prayers encouragement and learning support local and international missions. conduct wow…
Youth With a Mission Society (Alberta) promotes the gospel of Jesus Christ in Canada and abroad by providing opportunities to learn pray give and go for the cause of world missions. Current programs include; a 20 week discipleship training…
Provides religious training and conduct discipleship courses in local churches. provides pastors missionaries and local chuec h leaders with on-the job training and skills to train others. encourages the congregation to pray for one…
Pastoral care and guidance for students staff and faculty at the U of A. Spiritual resource by connecting students with on campus religious services. Networking with local churches. Participation in Interfaith Chaplains' Association.…
We hold weekly Christian worship services. Our ministry is to the local community served by the Church and we support efforts of missionary work. Bi-annual youth retreats.
Worship services each sunday and bible study classes each sunday and wednesday. financial and pastoral support of missionaries throughout the world. annual teen camp
Arise Calgary Church will hold weekly services that includes children's specific classes as well as prayer meetings small group meetings discipleship classes mentoring and corporate get togethers at various times throughout the week. At…
We hold weekly worship services children's programs youth/young adult programs and small groups. We hold special programs including conferences and family events. We support Alberta Bible College Pine Lake Christian Camp and Graceland…
Workship services Sunday school Bible Study Youth programs Family camps Evangelism Outreach & Crusades Family life & leadership and Seminars.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Evangelical Alliance Mission of Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Erdo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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.
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: 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.