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Montreal, QC · Private foundation

Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation

Echo foundation (the 'foundation') incorporated under part ii of the canada corporations act and continued under the canada not-for-profit corporations act is a non-profit charitable organization whose philanthropic funding is directed at supporting (I) organizations providing frontline services to improve the quality of life of…

C$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
221
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 221 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$40k
  • C$10k–50k127 grants · C$3.2M
  • C$50k–250k83 grants · C$7.1M
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.6M
C$35,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$240M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ENVIRONMENT FUNDERS CANADA/FINANCEURS EN ENVIR.C$1,000,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADAC$400,000
APPALACHIAN CORRIDOR/CORRIDOR APPALACHIENC$250,000
CITIZENS ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIOC$225,000
KAWARTHA LAND TRUSTC$200,000
SMALL CHANGE FUNDC$200,000
SMALL CHANGE FUNDC$200,000
ECOJUSTICE CANADAC$200,000
NATURE UNITED/NATURE UNIEC$200,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADAC$200,000
CENTRE FOR LAND CONSERVATION/CENTRE POUR AL CONSERVA..C$200,000
WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADAC$150,000
ÉQUITERREC$150,000
CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL LEADERSHIP IN CANADA/CTR DUC$125,000
NATURE CANADA/CANADA NATUREC$120,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$50M · 259 repeat orgsC$4.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

259 repeat relationships — 152 still active in FY2024, 107 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

259
115

Total granted

C$50M
C$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+27%

Still filing today

98%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.8M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’22’23’24
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

  • EF
    Environment Funders Canada
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$4.5M · revenue ×12 · 66% of their budget
  • SC
    Small Change Fund
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +869%
  • EC
    Ecojustice Canada
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k
  • EM
    East Metro Youth Services
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +17%
  • FJ
    Fondation Jeunes en Têtegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$75k · revenue +152%

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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L'Institut international de Montréal pour l'environnement / the Montreal international institute for the environment
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2
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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3
Arbres Et Nature - QuÉBec

protection de l'environnement en identifiant et administrant a perpétuité des terres du Québec

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4
Institut des territoires

L'organisme oeuvre dans l'aménagement intégré du territoire. sa mission est de «développer l idée pour conserver». développer le territoire selon une démarche intégrée et durable l idée de l accpetation sociale et de la gouvernance…

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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
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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7
Conservation De La Nature - Quebec

Conservation de la nature - quebec (cnq) is a non-profit conservation organization whose mission is to protect quebec's heritage. cnq is distinguished by its focus on conserving ecologically significant land and protecting endangered…

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8
Campus de la transition écologique

Le Campus a structuré ses activités autour de 3 programmes : - Programme de recherches sur les enjeux liés à la transition socio-écologique. Ce programme est actuellement mené en collaboration avec l'UQAM et l'organisme Mitacs. À ce jour…

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9
Trajectoire Québec

Activités bénéfices projets relatif à la mobilité urbaine projets relatif à l'environnement

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10
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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11
La Fondation Quebecoise En Environnement

Aider à la protection la recherche l'information la promotion et l'éducation en matière d'environnement.

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12
Societe De Developpement Communautaire De Montreal (Sodecm)

Élaborer et proposer des pratiques urbaines contribuant à créer des villes écologiques démocratiques et en santé. l'expertise en matière d'aménagement durable des milieux de vie couvre trois champs : aménager l'environnement urbain pour…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fondation rivières/Rivers foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone Standards Council. 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

392 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. 392 of the 408 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)
146
Early backer (in before they grew)
382/392
Grantees still filing
297/392
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetEnvironment Funders Canada — C$4,487,000 over 6y, 66% of budgetSmall Change Fund — C$2,105,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetEcojustice Canada — C$1,325,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY / SOCIÉTÉ POUR LA NAT — C$1,218,417 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetFriendship Volunteer Association Inc. / Association Bénévole — C$1,088,500 over 6y, 80% of budgetSalal Foundation — C$1,055,000 over 6y, 19% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$870,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA — C$795,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetThe Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Société canadienne pour — C$786,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAPPALACHIAN CORRIDOR/CORRIDOR APPALACHIEN — C$764,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA — C$690,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetLE BON DIEU DANS LA RUE — C$625,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCITIZENS ENVIRONMENT ALLIANCE OF SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO — C$590,000 over 4y, 74% of budgetECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE — C$560,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetÉQUITERRE — C$560,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetNATURE CANADA/CANADA NATURE — C$555,000 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetSTREET HEALTH — C$550,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTHE CANARY RESEARCH INST FOR MINING ENVIRONMENT AND HEALTH — C$505,000 over 6y, 67% of budgetClean Economy Fund — C$495,625 over 4y, 14% of budgetAMIS DE LA MONTAGNE — C$475,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$450,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGreenbelt Foundation — C$450,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetOak Ridges Moraine Land Trust — C$445,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetCentre for Land Conservation / Centre pour — C$440,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetConnexion Nature — C$440,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSUSTAINABILITY NETWORK — C$417,000 over 6y, 23% of budgetRARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVE — C$400,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetSOCIÉTÉ QUÉBÉCOISE DE LA SCHIZOPHRÉNIE — C$400,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$383,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNATURE UNITED/NATURE UNIE — C$375,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetThames Talbot Land Trust — C$360,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetSeedChange / Sème l'avenir — C$355,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBIRD CANADA — C$350,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetINTER PARES — C$346,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetFORWARD HOUSE INC. / MAISON LES ÉTAPES INC. — C$343,750 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FORESTS INTERNATIONAL — C$335,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEMENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH — C$332,500 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetKAWARTHA LAND TRUST — C$325,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetQUEBEC -LABRADOR FOUNDATION (CANADA) INC. — C$325,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetDOCTORS OF THE WORLD/MÉDECINS DU MONDE — C$323,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetL'ABRI EN VILLE — C$312,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetFoundation for Environmental Stewardship — C$305,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetRespecting Aboriginal Values and — C$300,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetOntario Streams — C$300,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPortage — C$281,250 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Parkdale Activity-Recreation Centre — C$273,250 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetEAST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW ASSOCIATION — C$265,000 over 6y, 28% of budgetTWO COUNTRIES ONE FOREST SOCIETY / SOCIÉTÉ DEUX PAYS — C$260,000 over 3y, 93% 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 Nature Conservanc…The McLean FoundationThe Gosling FoundationIvey FoundationThe Catherine Donnell…The Schad FoundationNature Canada / Canad…The Peter Gilgan Foun…The J W McConnell Fam…The Chawkers foundati…The George Cedric Met…
The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale TrottierQC31.6× affinity64 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 Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Nature · The McLean Foundation · The Gosling Foundation · Ivey Foundation · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · The Schad Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · The Chawkers foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable 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 408 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 130376270:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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