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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

Ecojustice Canada Society

Operates environmental law offices covering a wide range of environmental issues across canada.

C$10k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$8,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipientC$8,000
RAVENC$1,590
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 9 repeat orgsC$74k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +86% since the first grant, against +68% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+86%
+68%

Still filing today

89%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
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
    WEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$311k · revenue +16%
  • TC
    Tides Canada Initiatives
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$220k · revenue +841%
  • NC
    Nature Canada
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$163k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • ON
    OCEANS NORTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$30k · revenue +850%
  • EC
    EAST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$14k
  • CA
    CANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT FOUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$8k · revenue +428%

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.

1
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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2
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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3
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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4
Freshwater Conservation Canada

Freshwater conservation canada is committed to conserving protecting and restoring canada's freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations. programs and projects are delivered by our professional…

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5
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…

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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
Ecojustice Canada Society

Operates environmental law offices covering a wide range of environmental issues across canada.

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8
Centre for Northern Conservation

The centre for northern conservation: 1. work to support and encourage greater recognition of the work of indigenous governments and communities in protecting the environment through for example the creation of indigenous protected and…

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9
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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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
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oceans North Conservation Society and the most unlike its peers is Bear Clan Patrol Inc.. 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

25 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. 25 of the 28 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW — C$310,500 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetTides Canada Initiatives — C$219,625 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetNature Canada — C$163,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetOCEANIA CANADA — C$123,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA — C$68,250 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetEcology Action Centre — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRE QUÉBÉCOIS DU DROIT DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT — C$39,950 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetOCEANS NORTH — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT FOUND — C$7,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPEMBINA INSTITUTE FOR APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT — C$3,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESPECTING ABORIGINAL VALUES & ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS — C$2,188 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRAVEN — C$1,590 over 1y, 13% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$1,525 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS CHILD & FAMILY CARING SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$1,440 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN NATIVE YOUTH ASSOCIATION — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTILLICUM LELUM ABORIGINAL SOCIETY — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMI'KMAWEY DEBERT CULTURAL CENTRE — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWABANO CENTRE FOR ABORIGINAL HEALTH — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIRE — C$125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE MATTER — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTUNGASUVVINGAT INUIT — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEAR CLAN PATROL — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANISHNAWBE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE — C$40 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.

Makeway FoundationThe J W McConnell Fam…Fondation Écho /Echo …The Trottier Family F…Environment Funders C…The Sitka FoundationVancity Community Fou…Aqueduct FoundationThe George Cedric Met…Vancouver FoundationToronto FoundationUnited Way British Co…
Makeway FoundationBC12.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement · The Sitka Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Toronto Foundation · United Way British Columbia

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 28 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 2023-10-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under community resource.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 134748474:2023-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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