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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement

All of environment funders canada's programs are designed to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the canadian environment and to support a vibrant network of philanthropic and other funders working individually and collectively to advance a healthy environment and sustainable future for canada.

C$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
Regions reached
C$493k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$132k
  • C$50k–250k15 grants · C$2.1M
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$971k
C$129,168
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PEMBINA INSTITUTE FOR APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENTC$492,960
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADAC$478,000
OCEANS NORTH CONSERVATION SOCIETYC$222,200
KITASOOC$188,375
ECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETYC$175,760
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (CPAWS)C$155,000
SMALL CHANGE FUNDC$150,000
EAST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATIONC$146,881
EQUITERREC$143,711
QALIPU MI'KMAQ FIRST NATIONC$137,500
CONSERVATION COUNCIL OF NEW BRUNSWICKC$129,168
DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATIONC$125,840
ECOLOGY ACTION CENTREC$124,800
Individual grant recipientC$118,800
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTC$114,400
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$3.9M
British Columbia
C$2.7M
Alberta
C$2.2M
Nova Scotia
C$996k
Quebec
C$623k
New Brunswick
C$572k
Manitoba
C$436k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$193k

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.5M · 12 repeat orgsC$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
14

Total granted

C$9.5M
C$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$970k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • ED
    ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +86%
  • PI
    PEMBINA INSTITUTE
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +24%
  • EC
    ECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$849k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATURE CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$185k · revenue +4%
  • EA
    ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE
    one grant, 2021 · C$180k
  • MW
    MAKE WAY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$150k · revenue -25%

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
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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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
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
Georgia Strait Alliance

Public Engagement – increasing the understanding of the importance of the health of Georgia Strait as a regional ecosystem and providing individuals and communities with the tools to take local and regional action to improve the health of…

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5
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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6
L'Institut international de Montréal pour l'environnement / the Montreal international institute for the environment
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7
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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8
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…

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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nature United/ Nature Unie and the most unlike its peers is University of Victoria. 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

27 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. 27 of the 35 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
21/27
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA — C$2,211,372 over 6y, 10% of budgetPEMBINA INSTITUTE — C$2,210,960 over 6y, 6.9% of budgetECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY — C$848,760 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$661,130 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetEQUITERRE — C$622,664 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCONSERVATION COUNCIL OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$571,568 over 5y, 18% of budgetECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE — C$548,013 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetOCEANS NORTH CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$541,270 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — C$436,400 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (CPAWS) — C$355,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW — C$291,058 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetNATURE CANADA — C$185,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFIRST NATIONS FISHERIES CHARITY FUND SOCIETY — C$180,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetMAKE WAY FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FUND — C$150,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$149,848 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEAST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION — C$146,881 over 1y, 35% of budgetOCEANA CANADA — C$112,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNATURE UNITED — C$85,720 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetI.C.C FOUNDATION — C$57,500 over 1y, 19% of budgetWILDLANDS LEAGUE — C$55,065 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE ARTIC EIDER SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCANADIAN MUSEUM OF NATURE FOUNDATION — C$54,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOTTAWA PEACE AND ENVIRONMENT RESOURCE CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$18,000 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.

The Trottier Family F…The George Cedric Met…Makeway FoundationFondation Écho /Echo …The J W McConnell Fam…The Catherine Donnell…CANADIAN PARKS AND WI…Ivey FoundationThe Schad FoundationThe Sitka FoundationNature Canada / Canad…Ecojustice Canada Soc…
The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale TrottierQC14.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Makeway Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada · Ivey Foundation · The Schad Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · Ecojustice Canada Society

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 35 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 community resource.

Source object 895098515:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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