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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

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 the importance of terrestrial conservation.

C$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$267k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$2.0M
C$106,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY - BRITISH COLUMBIAC$1,952,194
WILDLANDS LEAGUEC$111,379
West Coast Environmental Law Research FoundationC$106,000
FOUNDATION FOR CANADIAN PARKS & WILDERNESSC$50,000
Individual grant recipientC$10,000
Sackville Rivers AssociationC$5,000
02Your 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.6M · 17 repeat orgsC$112k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

C$9.6M
C$102k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+16%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • CP
    CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY - BRITISH COLUMBIA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$6.7M · revenue +20% · 85% of their budget
  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR CANADIAN PARKS & WILDERNESS
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$598k · revenue +74% · 98% of their budget
  • NC
    Nature Canada
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$292k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • WW
    WORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$41k · revenue -43%
  • BC
    Birds Canada
    one grant, 2023 · C$33k · revenue +16%
  • YT
    Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$16k · revenue +15%

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

03Your 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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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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2
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists

Nature Nova Scotia (also known as the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) exists to aid in the communication and cooperation among naturalists natural history societies and other nature-focused groups in Nova Scotia. We profile and…

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3
Oceans Research and Conservation Association - Orca

Research and studies related to the conservation of marine life; identifying endangered marine species determining what their habitat needs are and how best to protect them and building the evidence base to support conservation efforts.

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4
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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5
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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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
Pacific Wild Alliance

1. save bc wolves - our goal is to ensure that wolves have adequate habitat to continue their critical role as a keystone species. 2. protect pacific herring - we are working with central coast communities to highlight the importance of…

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8
Nature United/ Nature Unie

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…

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9
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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10
The Canadian Council On Ecological Areas - Le Conseil Canadien Des Aires ÉCologiques

The canadian council on ecological areas (ccea) is a national leader in providing evidence-based guidance in the establishment and management of a comprehensive network of ecological areas to contribute to the conservation and restoration…

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11
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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12
Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation

Coastal Action established in December 1993 is a charitable organization that addresses environmental concerns throughout the South Shore region of Nova Scotia and beyond. Our goal is to promote the restoration enhancement and conservation…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada and the most unlike its peers is Sable Island Institute. 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

22 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. 22 of the 25 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
16/22
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$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY - BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$6,735,850 over 5y, 85% of budgetWILDLANDS LEAGUE — C$1,316,780 over 8y, 26% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CANADIAN PARKS & WILDERNESS — C$597,978 over 8y, 98% of budgetNature Canada — C$292,250 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetWest Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation — C$169,942 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetOCEANS NORTH — C$94,346 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$76,763 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN WISE CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — C$57,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Canada — C$57,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA — C$49,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCONSERVATION COUNCIL OF NEW BRUNSWICK INC. — C$46,344 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE — C$45,754 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA — C$41,300 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSIERRA CLUB CANADA FOUNDATION — C$34,800 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBirds Canada — C$32,770 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGeorgia Strait Alliance — C$17,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation — C$16,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEast Coast Environmental Law Association (2007) — C$7,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSackville Rivers Association — C$7,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetSt. Mary's River Association — C$5,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSable Island Institute — C$5,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST — C$5,000 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 Sitka FoundationTd Friends of the Env…Nature Canada / Canad…Makeway FoundationEnvironment Funders C…The McLean FoundationFondation Écho /Echo …The Schad FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…The Trottier Family F…Ecojustice Canada Soc…Vancity Community Fou…
The Sitka FoundationBC13.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sitka Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · Makeway Foundation · Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement · The McLean Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The Schad Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Ecojustice Canada Society · Vancity Community 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 25 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 public amenities.

Source object 106865272:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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