Alberta · Registered charity
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY (Alberta) receives grants from 88 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,182,825 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADA (C$1,173,020). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Rio Terrace Moravian Churchlocal
- Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener)portfolio match
- Priscilla and Stanford Reid Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
69% of CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (12% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 40 funders to 47 funders, grant income rose C$317k → C$471k.
From the CRA filings of CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 88 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 71%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 40% · 2019 42% · 2020 46% · 2021 45% · 2022 35% · 2023 41% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
63% of CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 81% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 5 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$17k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 88 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Rio Terrace Moravian ChurchlocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Priscilla and Stanford Reid Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St. Peter's Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christ Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Serra Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Little Miracles Trust FundlocalNS · funds 4 organizations near you
- Edmonton Gleaners AssociationlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Allan & Sally Sawin FoundationlocalAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Christenson Charity FoundationlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Westwood Unitarian SocietylocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alberta
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY?
- CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY (Alberta) receives grants from 88 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,182,825 to it, the largest being LUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADA (C$1,173,020). 71 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 88 organizations giving C$3,182,825 in grants to CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY, 71 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY?
- LUTHERAN CHURCH-CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$1,173,020 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CONCORDIA LUTHERAN SEMINARY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 88 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register