Toronto, ON · Charitable organization
ALUS Canada
The organization provides a community developed farmer-delivered program to restore enhance and maintain the benefits - commonly called 'ecosystem services' that nature can provide to canadian society.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$822
- C$10k–50k9 grants · C$272k
- C$50k–250k20 grants · C$2.5M
- C$250k+9 grants · C$3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASSINIBOINE WEST WATERSHED DISTRICT | C$715,963 |
| SASKATCHEWAN ASSINIBOINE PROJECT | C$633,437 |
| SEINE RAT RIVER COUNTY | C$498,298 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$387,440 |
| NORFOLK COUNTY | C$355,813 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$276,651 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$263,913 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$261,900 |
| MONTÉRÉGIE-SAINT-HYACINTHE QUEBEC | C$256,640 |
| PARKLAND COUNTY | C$214,649 |
| VERMILION RIVER COUNTY | C$208,996 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$193,340 |
| BRAZEAU COUNTY | C$192,165 |
| RED DEER COUNTY | C$188,319 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$180,403 |
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.
44 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$756k went to new ones.
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
- AWASSINIBOINE WEST WATERSHED DISTRICT4× · 2021–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +50%
- SRSEINE RAT RIVER COUNTY5× · 2020–2024 · C$972k · revenue +26% · 40% of their budget
- LPLONG POINT REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY4× · 2019–2022 · C$756k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · C$445k
- RDRED DEER COUNTYone grant, 2023 · C$296k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · C$295k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Water stewardship
Agent for water and land conservation and management for its member municipalities
Provides services for improvement and benefit of the locality by pursuing conservation creation development and management of natural resources.
Operation of water control structures conservation area maintenance heritage land acquisition digital mapping shoreline hazard planning conservation lands acquisition employment programs rails to trails project forestry and education…
The core mandate of conservation authorities is to undertake watershed-based programs (mandatory and non-mandatory) to protect people and property from flooding and other natural hazards and to conserve natural resources orr economic…
1. Flooding and shoreline warnings 2. Small dams and floodway maintenance programs 3. Monitoring aquatic health 4. Fragile land retirement 5. Tree planting 6. Best management practices for land use 7. Drinking water source protection
It completed or initiated numerous conservation projects including drainage and wetland conservation abandoned well filling and wildlife habitat preservation
To provide leadership in the protection and restoration of the environmental health and quality of Lake Simcoe and its watershed with our community municipal and other government partners. Provide technical and educational services. The…
Small dams erosion control shelterbelts beaver leveler soil testing alternate watering system forage seeds and rehabilitation variable rate abandon well sealing well establishment well shock chlorinating water retention drinking water…
Communicate with municipalities/residents to increase public awareness & provide advice on env. issues; own over 3800 acres of natural open space which we protect & manage for present & future generations; youth education programs; work…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Saskatchewan River Conservation District and the most unlike its peers is Long Point Region Conservation Authority. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 74 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
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.
Open a dossier: Ducks Unlimited Canada/Canards Illimites Canada · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Canadahelps Canadon
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.