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WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA
WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA (Ontario) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,357,320 to it, the largest being ST PAUL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (C$501,293). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 11,997 christianity nonprofits its size.
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.
- Knox Presbyterian Churchlocal
- Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener)portfolio match
- St. John's 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.
90% of WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 11 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose C$142k → C$152k.
From the CRA filings of WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA’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
WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 37% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 35% · 2019 34% · 2020 39% · 2021 34% · 2022 52% · 2023 43% — 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
83% of WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 92% 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
68% of WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA'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.
- Knox Presbyterian ChurchlocalON · funds 2 organizations near you
- Faith Lutheran Church (Kitchener)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St. John's Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kitchenerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St. Peter's Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First St Paul's Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bethlehem Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faith Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christ Lutheran Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elevation Church Canada (Est 2012)shared fundersON · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- King of Kings Lutheran Church (Spruce View District)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foothills Lutheran Church of Calgaryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - 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 Ontario
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 WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA?
- WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA (Ontario) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,357,320 to it, the largest being ST PAUL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH (C$501,293). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$1,357,320 in grants to WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA?
- ST PAUL EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH is the largest funder on record, with C$501,293 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like WISCONSIN EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN SYNOD - CANADA/L'EGLISE EVANGELIQUE LUTHERIENNE SYNODE DU WISCONSIN - CANADA 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 13 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