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Sherwood Park, AB · Charitable organization

Alberta Conservation Association

The Alberta Conservation Association carried out five broad based programs during the fiscal year.

C$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$289k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$71k
  • C$10k–50k33 grants · C$729k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$728k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$289k
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of AlbertaC$289,198
Alberta Hunter EducationC$185,000
Forest ServiceC$93,513
University of SaskatchewanC$90,000
Individual grant recipientC$80,000
Trout Unlimited CanadaC$78,203
Alberta Trappers AssociationC$76,500
University of LethbridgeC$62,900
Alberta Fish & Game AssociationC$62,276
The University of MontanaC$44,595
University of CalgaryC$43,732
Red Deer CountyC$40,000
Burman UniversityC$36,443
Northern Lights Fly Fishers/TU EdmontonC$32,841
Biosphere Institute of the Bow ValleyC$31,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 83% of grant dollars (C$6.7M). The 17% that went abroad (C$1.3M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 17% of all-years giving (C$1.3M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$87k · 1 grant

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.3M · 59 repeat orgsC$729k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
27

Total granted

C$7.3M
C$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+18%

Still filing today

71%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$324k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • UO
    University of Alberta
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue ×1,050
  • TA
    The Alberta Hunter Education Instructors Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +3%
  • TU
    Trout Unlimited Canada
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$497k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Montana
    one grant, 2018 · C$87k
  • MU
    MacEwan University
    one grant, 2023 · C$33k · revenue +18%
  • RD
    Red Deer Fish & Game Association
    one grant, 2023 · C$29k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Riverwatch Institute of Alberta

Environmental field studies for secondary science students: -advance education by organizing and deliverying programs projects science curriculum supplements field trips and other tours that assist teachers students and others in the study…

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2
Olds College

Olds college works with industry and clients to develop and deliver a range of training programs and products designed to meet desired specifications in areas of agriculture horticulture land and environmental management agribusiness…

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3
Water Matters Society of Alberta

Scholarly research and dissemination of information regarding water conservation and water policy.

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4
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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5
Alberta Conservation Association

The Alberta Conservation Association carried out five broad based programs during the fiscal year. These were the Fisheries Program Wildlife Program Information Education and Communications Program Land Management Program and Report A…

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6
Alberta Wilderness Association(Awa)

Public awareness of wilderness conservation issues in alberta through publications lectures hikes public outreach presentations government and industry liaison and landscape and wildlife assessments.

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7
The Lake Winnipeg Research Consortium Inc

Research and education with respect to lake winnipeg

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8
Partners for the Saskatchewan River Basin

Environmental education programs. development and delivery of environmental stewardship programs. provision of supplies and information to school children to asses local water conditions and identify opportunities for individual…

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9
Southern Alberta Land Trust Society

Facilitating the protection of ecologically valuable private land in Southern Alberta in partnership with landowners through the use of conservation easements which are enabled through provincial legislation and further supported through…

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10
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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11
Canadian Water Research Society

Identifying indicators to measure ecosystem health in international waterways public outreach and education

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12
North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance Society

To educate and increase the public's understanding of watershed protection and its importance by developing and providing programs on the protection and improvement of water quality water quantity and the health of the North Saskatchewan…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aquatic Biosphere Society of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Burman University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 67 of the 104 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/67
Grantees still filing
50/67
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Alberta — C$1,719,008 over 8y, 13% of budgetThe Alberta Hunter Education Instructors Association — C$1,213,056 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetTrout Unlimited Canada — C$496,739 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetAlberta Fish and Game Association — C$432,085 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetUniversity of Lethbridge — C$329,242 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$308,867 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Saskatchewan — C$304,988 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society of Canada — C$180,068 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBeaverhill Bird Observatory Society — C$150,500 over 8y, 16% of budgetAnn and Sandy Cross Conservation Area — C$113,324 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetOldman Watershed Council — C$103,217 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetThe University of Manitoba — C$98,470 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRiparian Management Society — C$96,372 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetInside Education Society of Alberta — C$72,828 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetThe Governors of Athabasca University — C$66,850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) — C$64,250 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAlberta Lake Management Society — C$57,050 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetGlenbow Ranch Park Foundation — C$52,669 over 6y, 17% of budgetThe University of British Columbia — C$47,660 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe King's University — C$40,511 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Canada — C$36,959 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBurman University — C$36,443 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa — C$36,239 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPheasants Forever Calgary — C$36,136 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetMacEwan University — C$32,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBiosphere Institute of the Bow Valley — C$31,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetRed Deer Polytechnic — C$27,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAthabasca Watershed Council — C$27,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetEastern Irrigation District — C$26,666 over 3y, 58% of budgetUniversite De Sherbrooke — C$26,280 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRoyal Institution of the Advancement - McGill University — C$26,045 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Mary's University — C$20,323 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConcordia University of Edmonton — C$18,135 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLesser Slave Watershed Council — C$17,750 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetSouthwest Alberta Sustainable Community Initativ — C$17,641 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetSouthern Alberta Bible Camp 1978 — C$17,604 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEdmonton and Area Land Trust — C$17,484 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFriends of Elk Island Society — C$17,095 over 1y, 86% of budgetMilk River Watershed Council Canada — C$16,700 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetAquarium Society of Alberta — C$16,100 over 2y, 96% of budgetUniversite Laval — C$16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Winnipeg — C$15,269 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSturgeon School Division — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetValhalla School Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHelen Schuler Nature Center — C$14,400 over 3y, 14% of budgetWildlife Preservation Canada — C$13,932 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe University of Western Ontario — C$13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWabamun Watershed Management Council — C$12,000 over 1y, 45% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds University of Alberta ↗
  • Who funds The Alberta Hunter Education Instructors Association ↗
  • Who funds Trout Unlimited Canada ↗
  • Who funds Alberta Fish and Game Association ↗
  • Who funds University of Lethbridge ↗
  • Who funds University of Calgary ↗
  • Who funds University of Saskatchewan ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society of Canada ↗
  • Who funds Beaverhill Bird Observatory Society ↗
  • Who funds Ann and Sandy Cross Conservation Area ↗
  • Who funds Oldman Watershed Council ↗
  • Who funds The University of Manitoba ↗
  • Who funds Riparian Management Society ↗
  • Who funds Inside Education Society of Alberta ↗
  • Who funds The Governors of Athabasca University ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) ↗
  • Who funds Alberta Lake Management Society ↗
  • Who funds Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The University of British Columbia ↗
  • Who funds The King's University ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Canada ↗
  • Who funds Burman University ↗
  • Who funds University of Ottawa ↗
  • Who funds Pheasants Forever Calgary ↗
  • Who funds MacEwan University ↗
  • Who funds Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Alberta Ecotrust …Td Friends of the Env…The Edmonton Communit…The Calgary FoundationThe Nature Conservanc…Drayton Valley Commun…Northwestern Alberta …World Wildlife Fund C…Community Foundation …The Alberta Fish and …History & Heroes Foun…United Way of the Alb…
The Alberta Ecotrust FoundationAB25× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · The Calgary Foundation · The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Nature · Drayton Valley Community Foundation · Northwestern Alberta Foundation · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · Community Foundation of Central Alberta · The Alberta Fish and Game Association · History & Heroes Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 104 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under environment.

Source object 889946141:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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