Toronto, ON · Private foundation
Amicus Foundation
Poverty reduction: native men's residence (nameres) environmental: environmental defence narwhal news society native scholarships: indspire native reconcilliation/education: gord downie and chanie wenjack fund
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$24k
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INDSPIRE | C$25,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE | C$20,000 |
| GORD DOWNIE AND CHANIE WENJACK FUND | C$20,000 |
| THE NARWHAL NEWS SOCIETY | C$8,000 |
| INTER PARES | C$8,000 |
| NATIVE MEN'S RESIDENCE | C$8,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +116% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k 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
- IINDSPIRE7× · 2017–2024 · C$130k · revenue +116%
- TGThe Gord Downie and Chanie Wenjack Fund7× · 2018–2024 · C$120k · revenue +888%
- N(Na-Me-Res (Native Men's Residence)4× · 2017–2024 · C$31k · revenue +164%
Funded once
- IINSPIREone grant, 2019 · C$15k
- TCTides Canada Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +70%
- NMNATIVE MEN'S RESIDENCEone grant, 2023 · C$8k
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.
Energy economics in bc research project prosperous transition project indigenous economics systems project
Global Indigenous Development Trust engages in community economic development training and empowerment partnership building education and advocacy. We work with First Peoples who drive our projects together with industry academic…
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…
Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…
The organization develops educational programs & conducts active participatory research on climate change & sustainability. Priority program areas include developing the capacity of Indigenous Communities to adapt to climate impacts &…
Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…
MEDA Impact Investments combines innovative financial and technical expertise to build and enhance sustainable agri-food systems that provide decent work for people living in poverty with a focus on systematically marginalized communities…
Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…
MakeWay Charitable Society's purpose is to build partnerships and solutions that help nature and communities thrive together. The organization operates through a shared platform conducting 68 projects across the country. Project work…
Programs to educate and increase the public’s understanding of ecology and ecosystems sustainable resource use and the importance of conservation and restoring ecosystems. Educate the public about Indigenous climate and environmental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Makeway Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project Harvest - Proyecto Cosecha. 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 12 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
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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.