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Banff, AB · Charitable organization

Bow Valley Naturalists Society

We traditionally offer educational programming: a winter speaker series christmas bird count plus participation in community programs.

C$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$300
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$33k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIOSPHERE INSTITUTE OF THE BOW VALLEYC$2,000
BIRDS CANADAC$300
CSPG FOUNDATIONC$300
02Your 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.

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The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour La Conservation De La Nature

As Canada’s largest environmental charity the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has worked with partners to conserve natural landscapes since 1962. Together we deliver solutions to address the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate…

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2
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada

A) Terrestrial Parks and Protected Areas Program - To establish new and expanded terrestrial protected areas while protecting nature in our existing parks; - To protect wilderness ecosystems across Canada; and - To educate Canadians about…

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3
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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4
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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5
Sci Canada Foundation

Conservation efforts through conducting surveys anti-poaching programs predation studies wildlife restoration and harvest initiatives programs education through scholarship programs for college students apprentice hunter programs support…

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6
Natureserve Canada

The preservation of the natural environment by undertaking supporting and supervising research made available to the public.

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7
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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8
Federation of British Columbia Naturalists

Operating under the name BC Nature The Federation of British Columbia Naturalists is the umbrella organization supporting over 53 local natural history organizations located throughout British Columbia. Ongoing programs include: i)…

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9
Earthroots Fund

Earthroots fund works to promote the protection of canada's wilderness wildlife and watersheds through research and public education

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10
Canadian Council on Invasive Species

The council works collaboratively across jurisdictional boundaries to support actions and information that can help reduce the threat and impacts of invasive species.

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11
Canadian Wildlife Federation/FÉDÉRation Canadienne De La Faune

Cwf’s mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of canada’s wildlife and habitat for the use and enjoyment of all through research direct programming education and advocacy. cwf is recognized for our leadership in bringing…

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12
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

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

02the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 13 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
3/11
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 CALGARY: NATURAL AND HUMAN FACTORS INFLUENCING — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN EAGLE RESEARCH FOUNDAITON — C$2,500 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetBIRD STUDIES CANADA — C$2,006 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBIOSPHERE INSTITUTE OF THE BOW VALLEY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetECOJUSTICE — C$700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF JASPER NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCSPG FOUNDATION — C$300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWCS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN LYME DISEASE FOUNDATION — C$300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAKE O'HARA TRAILS CLUB — C$50 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Calgary FoundationTd Friends of the Env…BenefAction FoundationUnited Way East Ontar…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
The Calgary FoundationAB9.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.

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 13 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 charitable organization under public amenities.

Source object 890401771:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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