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Kanata, ON · Charitable organization

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.

C$189k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$22k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$107k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
C$7,500
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$34M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$60,000
WATERSHEDS CANADAC$40,000
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWAC$36,527
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$30,000
SASKATCHEWAN WILDLIFE FEDERATIONC$7,500
YUKON CONSERVATION SOCIETYC$5,000
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOOC$3,600
SALVATION ARMYC$3,173
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$2,000
GRAND RIVER EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING INC.C$1,070
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$977k
Nova Scotia
C$427k
New Brunswick
C$336k
Alberta
C$40k
Quebec
C$40k
Saskatchewan
C$33k
British Columbia
C$24k
Yukon
C$5k
Manitoba
C$500

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.6M · 12 repeat orgsC$242k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
33

Total granted

C$1.6M
C$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k 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

  • WC
    WATERSHEDS CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$405k · revenue +96%
  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$373k · revenue +36%
  • CU
    CARLTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$342k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • WH
    Wildlife Habitat Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$60k · revenue +322%
  • DU
    Dalhousie University
    one grant, 2017 · C$40k
  • MU
    McGill Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$39k · revenue +41%

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
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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2
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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3
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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4
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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5
Biological Survey of Canada

1) To identify and address gaps in knowledge of Canada's biological diversity. 2) To promote the importance of fundamental taxonomic research on Canada's species. 3) To promote awareness of the values and vulnerabilities of Canada's…

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6
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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7
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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8
Natureserve Canada

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

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9
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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10
The Canadian Section of the Wildlife Society / La Société de la Faune Section Canadienne

Educational programs courses learning units seminars workshops conferences and meetings. developing and evaluating educational resources and programs that increase knowledge skills and attitudes suportive of the protection of the…

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11
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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12
Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario

1. Research to advance the conservation of songbird species at risk in agricultural landscapes; and 2. Research to improve our understanding of the distribution abundance and productivity of songbird species at risk.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club and the most unlike its peers is Fondation De L'ecole Secondaire Polyvalente De L'ancienne-Lorette. 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

45 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. 45 of the 48 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
37/45
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 budgetWATERSHEDS CANADA — C$404,500 over 8y, 13% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$373,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCARLTON UNIVERSITY — C$342,036 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$335,948 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$66,527 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Habitat Canada — C$60,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCalgary Zoological Society — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMcGill University — C$39,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOttawa Field Naturalist's Club — C$35,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetUniversity of Saskatchewan — C$19,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$17,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURE CANADA — C$15,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOntarion Federation of Anglers & Hunters — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCape Breton University — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRideau Valley Wildlife Sanctuary — C$7,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$6,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYUKON CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetVancouver Botanical Garden Association — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNIPISSING UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Wise Conservation Association — C$3,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$3,173 over 1y, 26% of budgetMARINE ANIMAL RESPONSE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVancouver International Children's Festival — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Guelph — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of BC — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$1,645 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRAND RIVER EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING INC. — C$1,070 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBird Studies Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBluenose Coastal Action Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEcosource — C$750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutward Bound Canada — C$614 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$614 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFondation de L'ecole Secondaire Polycalente de L'Acienne-Lor — C$500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget10,000 Trees for the Rouge — C$250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGuepe — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGarden Grove Child Care — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBras D'Or Lake Biosphere Reserve Association — C$250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSaskatchewan Archaeological Society — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlue Lake Forest Education Society — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Yorkton — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGroupe Scout Des Laurentides — C$250 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe PAS Helping Hands 4-H Club — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPelee Island Bird Observatory — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Education & Research Society — C$200 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.

Td Friends of the Env…Nature Canada / Canad…The McLean FoundationWorld Wildlife Fund C…Makeway FoundationOttawa Community Foun…The Chawkers foundati…Weston Family Foundat…The Peter Gilgan Foun…Raymond James Canada …Conam Charitable Foun…The Victoria Foundati…
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON13.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · The McLean Foundation · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · Makeway Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · The Chawkers foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · The Victoria 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 48 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 2024-02-28, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under animal welfare.

Source object 106868755:2024-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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