Ontario · Registered charity
LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT
LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT (Ontario) receives grants from 52 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,203,982 to it, the largest being Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kitchener (C$596,550). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT's revenue fell 78% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,997 christianity nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable Foundationlocal
- Bethlehem Lutheran Churchportfolio match
- Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc.portfolio 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.
7% of LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 41 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell C$720k → C$30k.
From the CRA filings of LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 52 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
LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 27% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 16% · 2018 19% · 2019 48% · 2020 58% · 2021 57% · 2022 28% · 2023 23% — growing more concentrated.
“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
18% of LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT'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
97% of LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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 52 funders put you typical among the 309 organizations that share them.
- Waterloo Rotary Club Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- Bethlehem Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St. John Lutheran Church Frobisher Sask.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First United ChurchlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Astley Family FoundationlocalON · funds 8 organizations near you
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 11 organizations that share your funders · funds 11 organizations near you
- Good Foundation Inc.localON · funds 11 organizations near you
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Fregin Family FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- The Lazaridis Family FoundationlocalON · funds 3 organizations near you
- Mistera FoundationlocalON · funds 3 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 LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT
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 Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Questions and answers
- Who funds LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT?
- LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT (Ontario) receives grants from 52 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,203,982 to it, the largest being Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kitchener (C$596,550). 42 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 52 organizations giving C$2,203,982 in grants to LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT, 42 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT?
- Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kitchener is the largest funder on record, with C$596,550 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LUTHERAN EAST DISTRICT find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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 52 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