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FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA

FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA (Alberta) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$219,145 to it, the largest being ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA (C$120,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$434k
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
C$219k
Grants received
C$925k
Net assets
5/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 15%

Against its field

FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−15% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · below the median

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$417k) Expenses 100 (C$522k) Net assets 100 (C$1.4M)2018 Revenue 94 (C$393k) Expenses 99 (C$518k) Net assets 91 (C$1.2M)2019 Revenue 111 (C$461k) Expenses 103 (C$539k) Net assets 85 (C$1.2M)2020 Revenue 83 (C$347k) Expenses 81 (C$422k) Net assets 81 (C$1.1M)2021 Revenue 76 (C$316k) Expenses 64 (C$335k) Net assets 78 (C$1.1M)2022 Revenue 84 (C$349k) Expenses 75 (C$393k) Net assets 75 (C$1.0M)2023 Revenue 102 (C$423k) Expenses 85 (C$445k) Net assets 73 (C$990k)2024 Revenue 104 (C$434k) Expenses 95 (C$498k) Net assets 68 (C$925k)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (95)Net assets (68)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 9% · 2021 11% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

67% of FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,295 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$106k
’17
−C$125k
’18
−C$77k
’19
−C$75k
’20
−C$20k
’21
−C$44k
’22
−C$22k
’23
−C$65k
’24
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose C$33k → C$62k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$17k
The Calgary Foundationunclassified
C$13k
St. John Lutheran Churchunclassified
C$13k
funders
5
4
4
2
2
2
2
5

From the CRA filings of FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 77%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA.

55%
largest funder
77%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 73% · 2019 43% · 2020 80% · 2021 74% · 2022 52% · 2023 97% — 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

33% of FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

92% of FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA's grant income comes from Alberta funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alberta out of province

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.

03Its place in the field

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 8 funders put you under-funded among the 57 organizations that share them.

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.

Government revenue FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2022C$34k
20
21
22
  • 10% of FY2022 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA

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

Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church Calgary90%Emmanuel Christian Reformed Church of Calgary83%Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church of Calgary83%Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Forest Lawn Calgary82%Foothills Lutheran Church of Calgary81%Lutheran Church of the Cross81%Peace Lutheran Church of Calgary80%First Baptist Church Fellowship of Calgary Alberta80%

Nationally

Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church Calgary90%First Lutheran Church of Vancouver British Columbia83%Emmanuel Christian Reformed Church of Calgary83%First Lutheran Church83%Shepherd of Peace Lutheran Church of Calgary83%Emmanuel Lutheran Church of Forest Lawn Calgary82%Calvary Lutheran Church82%Foothills Lutheran Church of Calgary81%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 2%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA?
FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA (Alberta) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$219,145 to it, the largest being ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA (C$120,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$219,145 in grants to FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA?
ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$120,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH OF CALGARY ALBERTA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.

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 8 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