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Bow Island, AB · Charitable organization

Zion Lutheran Church

Regular worship services

C$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$44k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$44k
C$2,600
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$328k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTEC$43,900
NALC CANADA SECTIONC$4,000
LAMPC$3,000
CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELIEFC$2,600
CANADA LUTHERAN HOURC$600
COUNTY OF FORTY MILE FOODBANKC$400
SAMATITANS PUESEC$240
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$109k · 12 repeat orgsC$8k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

C$109k
C$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+20%

Still filing today

92%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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

  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$56k · revenue +8%
  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$12k · revenue +65%
  • L
    LAMP
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$9k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • CL
    CANADIAN LUTHERAN WORLD RELEIF
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k
  • HO
    HOPE OUTREACH CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$200 · revenue +77%
  • WV
    WORLD VISION CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$200 · revenue +6%

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
Lutheran Church-Canada

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.…

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2
Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations/L'associationcanadienne Des CongrÉGations LuthÉRiennes

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…

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3
Christian Reformed World Missions of Canada

Christian Reformed World Missions is the international evangelism ministry of the Christian Reformed Church. Activities include evangelism, discipleship, and missions programs around the world.

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4
Liebenzell Mission of Canada

Recruit train and send missionaries teachers medical personnel technicians and other personnel who are qualified to support and/or establish and develop national churches. Provide pastoral care to immigrant and non-immigrants in Canada.…

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5
Lutheran East District

Provide evangelical mission support to lutheran church-canada and its member congregations

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6
The Bible League of Canada

Provide and place Bibles New Testaments Gospels Bible Studies and Scripture booklets worldwide. Provide training for church planter programs. Evangelize educate and instruct persons in Christian commitment and Christian lifestyle. Assist…

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7
Lutheran Women's Missionary League - Canada Inc

As the auxiliary of lutheran church in canada under a memorandum of understanding providing education outreach services + mission projects to assit the church work + service to families within the church and to the secular world

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8
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization in Canada

The lausanne movement canada unites christians to participate with the whole church (faith &work diaspora) taking the whole gospel (integral mission leadership development) to the whole world (ministry collaboration cities). this movement…

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9
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of Canada Inc.

Provide financial support in establishing new churches provide scholarships to international and canadian students for religious instruction provide financial support for training of new ministers and international missionaries provide…

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10
Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

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.…

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11
Nli Canada

Training church leaders funding new churches short-term missions religious trips educating people across Canada recruiting volunteers to work for the church in various countries participate in religious events in Canada and researching new…

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12
Caleb Ministries Association of Alberta

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lutheran Laymen's League of Canada and the most unlike its peers is County of Forty Mile Foodbank Society. 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

14 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. 14 of the 18 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
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 budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE — C$55,610 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetCANADIAN LUTHERAN BIBLE INSTITUTE — C$12,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAMP — C$9,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTH AMERICAN LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$8,100 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCanadian Lutheran World Relief — C$6,900 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOW ISLAND FOODBANK ST MICHAL PARISH — C$3,445 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANADA LUTHERAN HOUR — C$2,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD MISSION PRAYER LEAGUE — C$2,360 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCANADA LUTHERAN HOUR — C$1,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAMARITANS PURSE — C$1,465 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNTY OF FORTY MILE FOODBANK — C$650 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE OUTREACH CANADA — C$200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilderness Ranch — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Trinity Evangelical L…Strategic Charitable …CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Ponoka AlbertaAB8.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Ponoka Alberta · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · 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.

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 18 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 119308963:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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