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Winnipeg, MB · Public foundation

Animal Welfare Foundation of Canada

The ANIMAL WELFARE FOUNDATION OF CANADA (awfc) grants donated funds to qualified registered charities animal welfare organizations and other appropriate programs accross canada.

C$78k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,500
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$8,000
HOPE FOR WILDLIFEC$8,000
SAFE PET ONTARIOC$8,000
GRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATIONC$8,000
ZOOCHECK INC.C$6,000
PROFESSIONAL ANIMAL CARE AND TRAINING ASSOCIATION OF BCC$5,000
HUMANE CANADAC$5,000
NATIONAL WILDLIFE CENTREC$5,000
SIR JAMES DUNN ANIMAL WELFARE CENTREC$4,000
A HOME FOR HOOVESC$3,000
ARROW LAKE CARIBOU SOCIETYC$2,500
WILD HEARTS THOROUGHBRED ADOPTION SOCIETYC$2,500
THE CANADIAN COURAGE PROJECTC$2,500
SUNSHINE COAST BEAR ALLIANCEC$2,000
STUDENT ANIMAL LAW ASSOCIATION OF DALHOUSIE (SALAD)C$1,500
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$143k
British Columbia
C$125k
Alberta
C$32k
Quebec
C$29k
Nova Scotia
C$15k
Prince Edward Island
C$8k
Manitoba
C$7k
Saskatchewan
C$1k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

44%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$165k · 10 repeat orgsC$206k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +109% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
27

Total granted

C$165k
C$152k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+109%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$54k 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

  • HC
    HUMANE CANADA
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$35k · revenue +119%
  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION CANADA INC
    2× · 2018–2021 · C$17k · revenue +157%
  • PO
    PAWS OF HOPE FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$15k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • SM
    SOS MISS DOLITTLE
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue +14%
  • TH
    TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue +35%
  • AI
    ANIMALS IN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue -63%

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
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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2
Victoria Humane Society

The Victoria Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels in the Victoria region and across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events…

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3
Paws Up Program

Paws Up Program is committed to improving animal health and welfare in Indigenous communities while respecting their cultural practices and traditions. PUP provides relevant education support and resources while removing oppressive…

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4
World Animal Protection Canada Protection Mondiale des Animaux Canada

World Animal Protection carries out programs to address the systems that cause cruelty and suffering to animals around the globe. We care for and provide sanctuary for captive wildlife that cannot be returned to the wild. We undertake…

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5
Speak Up for Paws

Our efforts focus on education and advocacy for animal welfare.

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6
Wild At Heart Refuge Centre

Care of animals

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7
Alberta Pound and Rescue Centres

To return lost pets to their owners and give homeless animals a new forever home.

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8
Animal Rescue Foundation (Arf) of Alberta

Rescue homeless lost stray or abandoned dogs and cats on request from rural areas and communities with limited resources in order to prevent and alleviate animal suffering and reduce pet overpopulation; provide dogs and cats with food…

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9
Animal Advocates Society of Bc

Rescue and rehabilitation; assist in the rescue rehabilitation and rehoming of animals primarily cats and dogs but may also include other pet species such as rabbits etc; humane education; use the aas website display ads the media…

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10
Burr Foundation

Alleviate animal suffering animal and wildlife rescue

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11
Canadian Association for Humane Trapping

Wildlife trapping research

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12
Pacific Animal Welfare Society
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Animal Task Force Society and the most unlike its peers is University of Prince Edward Island. 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

37 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. 37 of the 52 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
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 budgetHUMANE CANADA — C$35,050 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWolf Awareness Inc. — C$18,450 over 2y, 22% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION CANADA INC — C$17,430 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSOS MISS DOLITTLE — C$15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetPAWS OF HOPE FOUNDATION — C$14,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetZOOCHECK INC. — C$13,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetANIMALS IN SCIENCE POLICY INSTITUTE — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetCHIOTS NORDIQUES — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETY — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH - ONTARIO VETERINARY COLLEGE ANIMAL WEL — C$8,270 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER HUMANE SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE PET ONTARIO — C$8,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGRIZZLY BEAR FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE FOR WILDLIFE — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY VETERINARY OUTREACH — C$7,137 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE BEAGLE ALLIANCE — C$7,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetALBERTA SPCA — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEOPLE ENSURUNG ANIMAL CARE EXISTS (P.E.A.C.E) — C$6,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSIR JAMES DUNN ANIMAL WELFARE CENTRE — C$5,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKES ANIMAL FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$5,071 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetCANADIAN ANIMAL TASK FORCE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLANGLEY ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPETERBOROUGH HUMANE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARACHUTES FOR PETS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPAUSE4CHANGE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$4,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLE NICHOIR WILD BIRD CONSERVATION CENTRE — C$3,880 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWILD HEARTS THOROUGHBRED ADOPTION SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetALBERTA INSTITUTE OF WILDLIFE CONSERVATION — C$2,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTUDENT ANIMAL LAW ASSOCIATION OF DALHOUSIE (SALAD) — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN - WESTERN COLLEGE OF VETERINARY M — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRE-VETERINARY & ANIMAL WELFARE CLUB UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH — C$700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDER BAY & DISTRICT HUMANE SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAC LA BICHE REGIONAL HUMANE SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN SPCA — C$280 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Petsmart Charities of…The Eric S. Margolis …Ontario Society for t…Eden Conservation Tru…Canfel FoundationTelus Employees Chari…Private Giving Founda…Johansen-Larsen Found…Vancouver FoundationUnited Way of Prince …Aqueduct FoundationThe Calgary Foundation
Petsmart Charities of Canada - Charités Petsmart du CanadaON17× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petsmart Charities of Canada - Charités Petsmart du Canada · The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolis · Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals / Société de Protection Des Animaux de L'Ontario · Eden Conservation Trust · Canfel Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Private Giving Foundation · Johansen-Larsen Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way of Prince Edward Island · Aqueduct Foundation · The Calgary Foundation

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 52 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 118787290:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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