Saskatoon, SK · Charitable organization
Zion Evangelical Lutheran Congregation
Provide weekly Christian worship services as well as special occasion events weddings funerals etc.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELCIC Sk Synod | C$6,000 |
| LuMinHoS | C$2,580 |
| Lutheran Campus | C$1,525 |
| Canadian Lutheran World Relief | C$1,310 |
| Canadian Bible Society | C$1,000 |
| Salvation Army | C$797 |
| ELCIC World Missions | C$700 |
| Prairie Centre for Ecuminism | C$500 |
| Haven Kids House | C$490 |
| Camp Kinasao | C$400 |
| Saskatoon Food Bank | C$250 |
| LCBI | C$250 |
| LutherCare Special Home | C$100 |
| Friendship Inn | C$100 |
| LutherCare Foundation | C$80 |
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 +30% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 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$2k 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
- ESELCIC SK Synod8× · 2017–2024 · C$188k · revenue +20%
- CLCANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF8× · 2017–2024 · C$42k · revenue +56%
- LCLUTHERAN CARE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · C$36k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- CCHEPone grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +3%
- STSHARE THE WARMTH YXE (SASKATOON)one grant, 2019 · C$1k
- SDSaskatoon Diocese of Holy Covenant Churchgraduatedone grant, 2020 · C$510 · revenue +44%
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.
Luther college operates an independent boarding/day school that provides education for students from grade 9 to 12 following the saskatchewan school curriculum as well as the international baccalaureate program. luther college also…
To provide to the elderly at affordable costs: a) enriched living accommodations with support services; b) nursing home care with social activities and spiritual care; c) adult day care with activities; intermediate care between housing…
The Synod is shepherd to Lutheran congregations in Alberta Yukon and NT. It provides financial and other support for outreach programs ofcongregations as well as counsel and guidance to about 200 pastors through the Bishop of the Synod.…
Concordia lutheran seminary is an institution of theological higher education dedicated primarily to the preparation of students for he pastoral ministry of lutheran church-canada and beyond. concordia lutheran seminary a seminary of…
1. religious advancement 2. financial support for ministry to minorities in canada 3. financial support for ministry work outside of canada 4. financial support for education in theology through grants to lutheran seminaries in canada 5.…
Lutheran council in canada is an agency of the evangelical lutheran church in canada and lutheran church-canada with responsibility for co-ordinating shared ministry opportunity in canada for chaplaincy services in armed forces and…
Provide theological education to canadian students via the institute of lutheran theology
The Association is a national church body comprised of Canadian member congregations and individuals. The Association unites serves equips encourages and empowers congregations and individuals who share a common belief. The association…
The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…
Develop leadership training programs run a 10-month leadership development prorgram host other leadership meetings & programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Chep Good Food Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
24 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. 24 of the 32 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 ELCIC SK Synod ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEF ↗
- Who funds LUTHERAN CARE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAMP KINASAO ↗
- Who funds Lutheran Campus Ministry - Saskatoon ↗
- Who funds LCBI ↗
- Who funds LTS ↗
- Who funds Friendship Inn ↗
- Who funds Saskatoon Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CHEP ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CLBI ↗
- Who funds Canadian Bible Society ↗
- Who funds Salvation Army ↗
- Who funds Prairie Centre for Ecuminism ↗
- Who funds LutherCare Foundation ↗
- Who funds Saskatoon Diocese of Holy Covenant Church ↗
- Who funds Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ↗
- Who funds Haven Kids House ↗
- Who funds Interval House ↗
- Who funds Central Urban Metis Federation (1993) Inc ↗
- Who funds Worldwide Evangelization for Christ ↗
- Who funds Alzeihmer Society of Canada ↗
- Who funds Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada ↗
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: The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saskatoon Saskatchewan · Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc. · Saskatoon Community Foundation · Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran Church · Five Oaks Shared Ministry · Saskatchewan River Lutheran Church · United Way of Saskatoon and Area · Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church · Episcopal Corporation of Saskatoon · Carrot River Valley Lutheran Church · Skudesnes Lutheran Church · St. Paul Lutheran Church Radisson Inc.
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.