Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Varsity Bible Church
We hold regular sunday services sunday school classes fellowship ministries for adults ladies men seniors and marriage support; host and coordinate college and career activities and prayer meetings for all ages; provide support to mission organizations; provide support for outreach programs; and volunteer and support for refugees…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k8 grants · C$39k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VISION MINISTRIES CANADA | C$12,000 |
| SIM CANADA | C$6,000 |
| WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS | C$6,000 |
| INTERACT MINISTRIES | C$6,000 |
| CAMP CHESTERMERE | C$6,000 |
| NAVIGATORS OF CANDA | C$6,000 |
| PARTNERS IN DEED SOCIETY OF ALBERTA | C$6,000 |
| ONE HOPE MINISTRIES OF CANADA (BC BRANCH HOPE BAY | C$2,000 |
| NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CHURCH | C$1,200 |
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.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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
- IMInteract Ministries8× · 2017–2024 · C$53k · revenue +12%
- WBWYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS8× · 2017–2024 · C$41k · revenue +23%
- NONAVIGATORS OF CANADA8× · 2017–2024 · C$41k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- VMVISION MINISTRIES CANADAone grant, 2023 · C$12k
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.
International Christian Ministries (ICM) trains and equips Christian leaders in Africa Eastern Europe and Latin America with and through its agents. These training initiatives include various Christian seminars and conferences facilitating…
Missionary trainings On-line and On-site mission trips Church planting trainings
Resource for Christian Camps and Conference Centres across Canada; training events for Christian Camp and Conference Centre leaders; networking with other Christian Associations in Canada and throughout the world involved in furthering…
Provide leadership conferences training and church planting support in developing countries. Also to provide spiritual life and evangelism conferences in Canada as well as in first nations church community
Training church leaders funding new churches short-term missions religious trips educating people across Canada recruiting volunteers to work for the church in various countries participate in religious events in Canada and researching new…
We exist to preach and advance the teachings of the Christian faith and the religious tenets doctrines and observances by providing consultation instructional material curriculum development and best practices; and to propagate the…
To provide training and teaching to Christian church leaders around the world.
Our mission is to support and partner with Christian churches and relief organizations around the world to share our faith disciple teach train and serve. We focus on Church Planting & Evangelism Relief & Development and Leadership…
We conduct weekly bible clubs and bible studies run two summer camps for recreational and religious programs conduct vacation bible schools mail bible studies upon request. provide training for church and sunday school teachers conduct…
Training missionaries including language school in preparation for church planting activities
Missionary training -bible studies
AFC provides ongoing support and training to the Christian student leaders of fellowships in local high schools colleges and universities. AFC organizes conference and special ministry events to reach out to the students on the campuses to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Interact Ministries of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Deed Society of Alberta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 ASSOCIATED GOSPEL CHURCHES OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds Interact Ministries ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS OF DEED SOCIETY OF ALBERTA ↗
- Who funds WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS ↗
- Who funds CAMP CHESTERMERE ↗
- Who funds NAVIGATORS OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds SIM CANADA ↗
- Who funds VISION MINISTRIES CANADA ↗
- Who funds International Student Ministries ↗
- Who funds ONE HOPE MINISTRIES OF CANADA (BC BRANCH HOPE BAY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST COMMUNITY CHURCH ↗
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.