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Richmond Hill, ON · Private foundation

Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation

The foundation's program is to donate to a variety of domestic & wild animal (including birds & sealife) related charities as well as environmental charities particularly as they relate to the preservation of wildlife.

C$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$447k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k21 grants · C$443k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$593k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$447k
C$15,597
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AFRICAN WILDLIFE FEDERATIONC$446,771
CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUNDC$161,000
BIG LIFE FOUNDATION CANADAC$152,940
NATIONAL WILDLIFE CENTREC$121,250
KAWARTHAS TURTLE TRAUMA CENTREC$82,827
CANADIAN SEA TURTLE NETWORK INCORPORATEDC$75,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADAC$45,000
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$41,000
ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION CANADAC$40,000
ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARYC$37,000
ROBERTA BONDAR FOUNDATIONC$35,000
VANCOUVER AQUARIUM MARINE MAMMAL RESCUE SOCIETYC$30,000
WILDER INSTITUTEC$30,000
RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$20,000
PEGASUS ANIMAL SANCTUARYC$16,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.9M · 28 repeat orgsC$247k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

C$6.9M
C$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+70%

Still filing today

96%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$151k 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

  • AW
    AFRICAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +209% · 97% of their budget
  • NW
    NATIONAL WILDLIFE CENTRE
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +701% · 70% of their budget
  • OT
    ONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$608k · revenue +78%

Funded once

  • TC
    TIDES CANADA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$22k · revenue +70%
  • R
    RAPSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$15k · revenue +91%
  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$13k · revenue -83%

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
World Animal Protection Canada Protection Mondiale des Animaux Canada

World Animal Protection carries out programs to address the systems that cause cruelty and suffering to animals around the globe. We care for and provide sanctuary for captive wildlife that cannot be returned to the wild. We undertake…

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2
The Rock Wildlife Rescue Inc.

The Rock Wildlife Rescue cares for injured orphaned sick and displaced wildlife. Many of those animals are in distress as a direct result of human activity. As part of our mandate we provide education for habitat protection and…

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3
Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation

Alberta institute for wildlife conservation is committed to the rescue rehabilitation and release of injured and orphaned wildlife. we provide expert advice and education that fosters an appreciation of wildlife. our current programs are -…

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4
Toronto Wildlife Centre

As the busiest wildlife centre in the country every day communities rely on Toronto Wildlife Centre (TWC) for help. Staffed and equipped specially for wildlife medicine TWC's wildlife emergency hospital is the only one of its kind in the…

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5
Wild for Life

To rescue rehabilitate & reintegrate injured & orphaned wildlife into their natural habitateas well as to advance the public's awareness and understanding about the proper response to wildlife found sick injuredand/or orphanedin the wild…

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6
Holly's Haven Wildlife Rescue

Education on wildlife natural history rehabilitation coexistence and resolving issues Rehabilitation for injured and orphaned wild mammals

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7
Rideau Valley Wildlife Sanctuary

Our mission is to rehabilitate wild mammals and reptiles and return them to the wild. we also maintain a hotline and website to provide advice on co-existing with wildlife and preventing and solving human wildlife conflicts through humane…

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8
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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9
Wild Things Rehabilitation Society

Helping animals get rescued rehabilitated and released when they are injured or orphaned.

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10
Canadian Association for Humane Trapping

Wildlife trapping research

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11
Island Wildlife Natural Care Centre

Rescue and rehabilitation of sick injured and orphaned wildlife in bc and dissemination of information concerning wildlife to the public and special interest groups

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12
Moose Mountain R N R Wildlife Rehabilitation Inc.

Rehabilitation Of Wildlife As Per The Rules And Regulations Of The Ministry Of The Environment For Release Back Into The Wild.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Université de Montréal. 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

50 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/50
Grantees still filing
33/50
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 budgetAFRICAN WILDLIFE FEDERATION — C$2,171,224 over 8y, 97% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$2,155,250 over 7y, 70% of budgetONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE — C$607,827 over 6y, 15% of budgetWWF CANADA — C$305,900 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND — C$219,500 over 7y, 47% of budgetATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION CANADA — C$217,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION CANADA — C$192,940 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY — C$112,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetCANADIAN SEA TURTLE NETWORK INCORPORATED — C$95,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$88,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBEAR CREEK SANCTUARY — C$85,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetPEREGRINE FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetROBERTA BONDAR FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSHADES OF HOPE — C$65,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBEAR WITH US — C$60,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetPROCYON WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTRE — C$40,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetPEGASUS ANIMAL SANCTUARY — C$39,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetOAKVILLE & MILTON HUMANE SOCIETY — C$36,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE MONTREAL — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER AQUARIUM MARINE MAMMAL RESCUE SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetWILDLIFE HAVEN REHABILITATION CENTRE — C$30,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetWILDER INSTITUTE — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCETUS RESEARCH & CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$29,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTREES FOR LIFE — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA - CONSERVATION INITIATIVES — C$24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTIDES CANADA FOUNDATION — C$21,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE OWL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSALTHAVEN WILDLIFE REHABILITATION AND EDUCATION CENTRE INC. — C$18,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWILDLIFE PRESERVATION CANADA — C$15,597 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRAPS — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE QUEBEC FAUNA FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMARMOT RECOVERY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA (CAF) — C$13,164 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTORYBOOK FARM PRIMATE SANCTUARY — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBIRD ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION ONTARIO — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetCONSERVATION HALTON FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetPRAIRIE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTRE — C$10,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY ZOO — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICINE HAT SPCA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSIT WITH ME DOG RESCUE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCALGARY SENIOR'S RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE FOR WILDLIFE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERWOOD CONSERVANCY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFINDING THEM HOMES — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHOBBITSTEE WILDLIFE REFUGE — C$3,500 over 1y, 3.0% 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 Eric S. Margolis …National Wildlife Reh…Niagara Action for An…Takla FoundationLeon Judah Blackmore …Nickle Family Foundat…Td Friends of the Env…Ontario Wildlife Foun…The Fitzhenry Family …BenefAction FoundationThe Schad FoundationThe Calgary Foundation
The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. MargolisON15× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolis · National Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation · Niagara Action for Animals · Takla Foundation · Leon Judah Blackmore Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Ontario Wildlife Foundation · The Fitzhenry Family Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · The Schad Foundation · The Calgary 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 50 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 813259066:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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