Scarborough, ON · Charitable organization
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod - Canada/L'Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne Synode Du Wisconsin - Canada
In our quest to spread the gospel of jesus christ we provide the following: 1.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$8k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$16k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$125k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$318k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAVIOUR OF THE NATIONS LUTHERAN CHURCH | C$317,921 |
| HOPE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | C$65,142 |
| CROSS OF LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH | C$60,000 |
| ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH | C$15,648 |
| MIGHTY FORTRESS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH | C$8,229 |
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.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 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 FY2024, 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
- SOSAVIOUR OF THE NATIONS LUTHERAN CHURCH7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue +55% · 86% of their budget
- CLCROSS LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH8× · 2017–2024 · C$762k · revenue ×15 · 32% of their budget
- HEHOPE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH8× · 2017–2024 · C$413k · revenue +2%
Funded once
- SOSAVIOUR OF THE NATIONS LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · C$291k
- MVMOUNTAIN VIEW LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue +2%
- DWDIVINE WORD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · C$3k · revenue +7%
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.
Weekly Sunday Services Sunday School Baptism and ELW Bible Studies confirmation classes
Worship services bible study baptisms weddings funerals visitations and ongoing religious functions.
Regular Sunday services special occasion services bible studies confirmation classes Sunday school vacation bible school and visitations of shut ins. Weddings and funeral services as reqested.
Sunday worship services occasional sunday school classes occasional bible study classes occasional weddings and funerals pastoral shut-in hospital and bereavement visits
Church Services Sunday school Bible Study
Worship services baptisms funerals marriages bible studies pastor visits counseling
Church congregation meets weekly to hear the word of god read the bible receive sacraments of holy baptism and holy communion. sunday school and mid-week bible study.
Weekly bible studies sunday services adult instruction and confirmation. pastoral visits to sick and shut-ins weddings funerals and memorial services.
Weekly worship bible study sunday school vacation bible school community outreach pastoral care
Hold weekly church services, bible study, preach word of god, marriages, burials, baptisms
Worship services sunday school vbs funerals weddings and baptisms
Church services weddings funerals baptisms
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saviour of the Nations Evangelical Lutheran Church and the most unlike its peers is Mighty Fortress Evangelical Lutheran Church. 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 11 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 SAVIOUR OF THE NATIONS LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds CROSS LIFE LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ST. PAUL'S LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds HOPE EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY FORTRESS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds DIVINE WORD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ABIDING WORD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN 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: St Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church · Morning Star Evangelical Lutheran Church · 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.