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Stratford, ON · Charitable organization

Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church

We hold worship services weekly.

C$84k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$66k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$18k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$66k
C$2,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH EASTERN SYNODC$66,198
UNITED WAY PERTH HURONC$5,300
STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSINGC$3,550
SALVATION ARMY OF PERTH COUNTYC$2,056
SHELTERLINK STRATFORD-PERTHC$2,000
ST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH TV MINISTRYC$2,000
THE KIWANIS CHARITABLES FOUNDATIONC$1,643
THE LOCAL COMMUNITY FOOD BANKC$1,000
TO STRATFORD WITH LOVEC$150
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$747k · 20 repeat orgsC$13k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
9

Total granted

C$747k
C$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+27%

Still filing today

95%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • SH
    STRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$26k · revenue +109%
  • WL
    WATERLOO LUTHERAN SEMINARY
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$14k · revenue +22%
  • TK
    THE KIWANIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$13k · revenue +300%

Funded once

  • LS
    L'ARCHE STRATFORD
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +9%
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +56%
  • SP
    ST. PETERS EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH TV MINISTRY
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

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.

1
Victim Services Huron Perth

Provides short term emotional support practical assistance and community referral to victims of crime trauma and tragic circumstance in partnership with community and emergency services. Provides awareness education in the community for…

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2
Women's Rural Resource Centre of Strathroy & Area

Wrrc provides physical and psychological safety advocacy couselling and support to abused women and their children within west middlesex county ontario. programs: 24 hour emergency shelter/24 hour help line community and outreach…

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3
Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation

Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation (Community Foundation) facilitates philanthropy and provides gifts and resources to community service organizations delivering vital programs and services to the residents in Stratford St.…

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4
Community Living North Perth

Provides unique and individualized support to people with a developmental disability in partnership with their family friends and community.

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5
Southwest Homes Inc

We provide residential and vocational support services to individuals with an intellectual disability in the Swift Current Community through our residential respite supported living and community connections programs.

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6
Upstream Ottawa Mental Health Community Support

Provide a choice of permanent affordable housing and or ongoing flexible support to individuals with long-term mental health illness. to assist the individuals to live at their optimal level of functioning within the community.

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7
London Cares Homeless Response Services

London Cares is a housing First initiative aimed at individuals experiencing chronic and persistent homelessness based on a highly collaborative community-based approach. London Cares provides 24/7 street outreach support engaging with…

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8
Community Living-Central Huron

Community living-central huron provides a variety of staffing support to adults & children with a developmental disability. these supports include: 24hr in-home assistance; indepenent living assistance; employment; social & individuals…

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9
The Brenda Strafford Society for the Prevention of Domestic Violence

The Brenda Strafford Centre serves people at risk of family violence through providing a safe housing environment and comprehensive support services for its residents so that they can live safely in the community upon their departure from…

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10
Community Living - South Huron

The organization is a community organized dedicated to providing support to people with intellectual challenges through education advocacy and innovation. it operates programs and facilities in southwestern ontario including various adult…

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11
Huron Safe Homes for Youth

Huron safe homes for youth is a consulting referral short term residential crisis intervention program designed for youth (16 years of age and over) and where appropriate their families.

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12
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region

Emergency shelter services - provide emergency shelter for abused women and children crisis phone counselling - provide over the phone counselling to abused women and children crisis support - provide short term financial suppoer to abused…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Living Stratford and Area and the most unlike its peers is Change Her World. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA — C$612,799 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetSTRATFORD HOUSE OF BLESSING — C$25,503 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetWATERLOO LUTHERAN SEMINARY — C$13,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KIWANIS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$13,479 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetSALVATION ARMY OF PERTH COUNTY — C$12,882 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetSTRATFORD PERTH HOSPIC FOUNDATION — C$12,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY PERTH HURON — C$11,800 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTERLINK STRATFORD-PERTH — C$8,100 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetST. PETER'S EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH TV MINISTRY — C$6,950 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetST. JAMES ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$5,600 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRESILIENCE HURON-PERTH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES — C$5,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetL'ARCHE STRATFORD — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPTIMISM PLACE — C$4,400 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS SOCIETY OF PERTH COUNTY — C$3,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EMILY MURPHY CENTRE — C$3,800 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTRATFORD ASSOCIATION FOR COMMUNITY LIVING — C$3,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHURON-PERTH CENTRE FOR CHILDREN & YOUTH — C$2,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPERTH/HURON FAMILY SERVICES — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF STRATFORD FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN ASSSOCIATION OF MISSIONARIES & PILOTS — C$400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$337 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOICES FOR CHANGE — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING STRATFORD — C$300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNSHINE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$259 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTO STRATFORD WITH LOVE — C$250 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHANGE HER WORLD — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

Stratford and Perth C…Tri-County Mennonite …The Rotary Club of Fe…Knox Presbyterian Chu…Millbank-Hampstead Pa…Kilroy Council No. 14…Board of Health for t…Stratford and Distric…The Rotary Club of St…Emmanuel United ChurchUnited Way of Perth-H…Youth and Philanthrop…
Stratford and Perth County Community FoundationON17.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stratford and Perth County Community Foundation · Tri-County Mennonite Homes · The Rotary Club of Festival City Stratford Foundation · Knox Presbyterian Church · Millbank-Hampstead Pastoral Charge · Kilroy Council No. 1431 Charitable Welfare Trust · Board of Health for the Huron Perth Health Unit · Stratford and District Agricultural Society · The Rotary Club of Stratford Charitable Foundation · Emmanuel United Church · United Way of Perth-Huron · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 108230640:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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