Alberta · Registered charity
ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA
ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA (Alberta) receives grants from 82 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$6,956,924 to it, the largest being EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA (C$890,683). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,451 christianity nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,451 christianity 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.
- House of Prayer Edmonton Societylocal
- Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc.portfolio match
- Bethlehem Lutheran Churchportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2020 6% · 2021 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
94% of ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% 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 62 funders to 53 funders, grant income fell C$939k → C$761k.
From the CRA filings of ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 82 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
ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 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 ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 22% · 2018 13% · 2019 25% · 2020 14% · 2021 21% · 2022 35% · 2023 17% — 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
74% of ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
78% of ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA's grant income comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$576k 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 82 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- House of Prayer Edmonton SocietylocalAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Saskatchewan Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethlehem Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foothills Lutheran Church of Calgaryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lutheran Church-Canada the Alberta-British Columbia Districtportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Immanuel Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- King of Kings Lutheran Church (Spruce View District)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Witness 2 Nations Ministries AssociationlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- All World Gayatri Pariwar EdmontonlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Edmonton Realtors' Charitable FoundationlocalAB · funds 6 organizations near you
- The Garneau Community LeaguelocalAB · 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.
Government revenue ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 2% of FY2021 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA?
- ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA (Alberta) receives grants from 82 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$6,956,924 to it, the largest being EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA (C$890,683). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 82 organizations giving C$6,956,924 in grants to ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA?
- EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$890,683 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALBERTA SYNOD EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH IN CANADA 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 82 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