Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Virden Baptist Church Inc.
Regular worship services were held weekly up to oct 31/23 when the church was closed permanently and assets transfered to baptist of western canada
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANADIAN BAPTIST OF WESTERN CANADA | C$5,000 |
| YOUTH FOR CHRIST | C$2,550 |
| TURTLE MOUNTAIN BIBLE CAMP | C$1,500 |
| PREGNANCY SUPPORT CENTRE | C$750 |
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 +37% since the first grant, against -13% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- TMTurtle Mountain Bible Camp7× · 2017–2023 · C$42k · revenue +930% · 54% of their budget
- YFYouth For Christ7× · 2017–2023 · C$20k · revenue +118%
- CPCrisis Pregnancy Centre Westman Inc7× · 2017–2023 · C$6k · revenue +171%
Funded once
- ENEagles Nest Camp Associationone grant, 2017 · C$600
- SBSTEINBACH BIBLE COLLEGEone grant, 2018 · C$550 · revenue -23%
- GMGrace Missions Incone grant, 2017 · C$500 · revenue -13%
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.
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…
Cbm is a global mission organization committed to sharing god's love through word and deed. we believe that god brings healing to a broken world through local churches. with over 150 years of experience we have seen that words and deeds…
1. Held Christian conferences to educate and raise awareness of children at risk and to raise funds for aid programs.
Providing health education by instruction to the public regarding hiv/aids; providing basic necessities of life such as shelter and medical assistance to children orphaned by hiv/aids; teaching the christian faith. all of 1-3 take place in…
Conducts missionary work in the developing countries
Christian philanthropic work that provides: - Evangelism and discipleship strategies and resources for churches and individuals - Support for children in various nations
We engage in and promote Christian mission work in Canada and in foreign countries -We engage in humanitarian mission work in foreign countries including relief of poverty medical relief and operation of a number of daycare facilities. -We…
Preaching the gospel primarily in rural locations including the holding of religious programs for children youth and adults. We run camps and conferences for women men youth and children at centres in BC Alberta Quebec and Ontario.
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…
We support the ministries of under-resourced missionaries in rural villages and the indigenous missions in the Philippines and in other countries. We distribute Bibles and Christian literature. We host feeding programs for children. We…
1. spread the gospel of jesus christ through starting local church ministries 2. church ministries include regular worship services bible studies sunday school instruction youth and adults programs prayer meetings and counselling 3. camp…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sim Canada and the most unlike its peers is Pregnancy Support Centre of Westman Incorporated. 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 14 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 Turtle Mountain Bible Camp ↗
- Who funds Youth For Christ ↗
- Who funds Canadian Baptist of Western Can. ↗
- Who funds Crisis Pregnancy Centre Westman Inc ↗
- Who funds SIM CANADA ↗
- Who funds Kingdom Ventures Inc ↗
- Who funds STEINBACH BIBLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Grace Missions Inc ↗
- Who funds FOCUS ON THE FAMILY ↗
- Who funds Our Daily Bread Ministries ↗
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: Abundance Canada · 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.