Whitecourt, AB · Charitable organization
Woodland Pastoral Charge
All programs are governed by the guidelines and mandate of the United Church of Canada - general ministry benevolent actions support other local charities
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alberta and Northwest Conference of the United Church of Can | C$5,270 |
| Wellspring Family Resource Centre | C$400 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$400 |
| Tennille's Hope | C$367 |
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 +19% since the first grant, against -43% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$767 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
- WFWellspring Family Resource Centre8× · 2017–2024 · C$2k · revenue +19%
- THTENNILLE'S HOPE KOMMUNITY KITCHEN FELLOWSHIP5× · 2018–2022 · C$1k · revenue +88%
- SLSPRUCEVIEW LODGE7× · 2017–2023 · C$1k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- FLFAITH LIFT-ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCHone grant, 2019 · C$252 · revenue -43%
- BABoys and Girls Club of Whitecourt and Districtone grant, 2018 · C$227
- SESOARING EAGLE SUPPORT SOCIETYone grant, 2021 · C$77
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.
Operating a shelter for men
Soup kitchen adult drop-in support short-term food assistance medical assistance housing help centre christmas baskets rental assistance and emergency beds transitional housing
Thrift store food bank emergency financial assistance housing assistance christmas food back to school supplies mental health support and children's extra-cutticular support.
The food bank in warkworth provides nutritional food support and resources when times are hard and the cupboard is bare to local residents in the trent hills area. the food bank provides a stop gap supply of basics and staples like milk…
Offers essential services to those struggling with homelessness incomes below the poverty line social isolation addiction and mental health issues. We provide a community of services including hot meals clothing food pantry laundry…
We provide worship services weekly we offer pastoral care
We hold Christian worship services and Sunday school (children's ministry) weekly. We offer pastoral care and conduct weddings and funerals.
Weekly worship services (in person and live streamed) ministries for men women youth and children; pastoral care; outreach; facilities used by Guides Scouts Meals on Wheels community dinners two other church congregations and support and…
To provide on going sunday worship services as well as specialized ministries for children youth and adults. we have a community center where we provide a free clothing depot and food hampers to those with this need in our community.
Provides food for people in need
Operate a volunteer run second hand store in order to help the local whitecourt hospital with equipment purchases and programs
Worship services social outreach
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lac Ste Anne Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mayerthorpe Baptist Church. 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 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 ALBERTA AND NORTHWEST CONFERENCE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF ... ↗
- Who funds Wellspring Family Resource Centre ↗
- Who funds TENNILLE'S HOPE KOMMUNITY KITCHEN FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds SPRUCEVIEW LODGE ↗
- Who funds MAYERTHORPE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WHITECOURT ↗
- Who funds LORNE'S BLANKET SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Whitecourt Christmas Hamper Fund ↗
- Who funds FAITH LIFT-ST PAUL'S UNITED 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: Whitecourt Family Worship Centre · The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund 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.