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Cambridge, ON · Charitable organization

Grand River Conservation Foundation

Fundraising for projects of the grand river conservation authority (a qualified donee) primarily through direct asks by a volunteer board.

C$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$9k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.6M
C$750
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Grand River Conservation AuthorityC$1,568,930
Ramoth Life CentreC$1,000
Guelph Enabling GardenC$1,000
Galt Horticultural SocietyC$1,000
St. John's Nursery SchoolC$750
Saint Anne's Catholic Elementary SchoolC$750
Groh Public SchoolC$750
Bethel Stone United ChurchC$750
Wellington Catholic District School BoardC$500
Waterloo Region District School BoardC$500
Waterloo Catholic District School BoardC$500
Upper Grand District School BoardC$500
Grand Erie District School BoardC$500
Brant Haldimand Norfolk Catholic School BoardC$500
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.8M · 14 repeat orgsC$16k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 9 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

14
19

Total granted

C$4.8M
C$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+37%

Still filing today

79%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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

  • GR
    Grand River Conservation Authority
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4.4M · revenue +31%
  • WR
    Waterloo Region District School Board
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$11k · revenue +77%
  • UG
    Upper Grand District School Board
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$11k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • KH
    Kitchener Horticultural Society
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue +1%
  • WV
    West Village Community Development Co-operativegraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue +53%
  • TO
    Township of Wellington North
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k

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
Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority

Central lake ontario conservation authority's mission is to work towards the awareness understanding wise use and enhancement of our watershed resources for the benefit of the natural environment in partnership with our municipalities and…

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2
The Halton Region Conservation Authority

Conservation Halton is a community based environmental agency that protects restores and manages the watershed's conservation areas forests creeks Niagara Escarpment lands source water protection sites and biodiversity through science…

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3
University of Guelph

The University carries out teaching research extension education activities and opportunities through student scholarships and bursaries travel grants and learning initiatives. In addition the University's operating and ancillary services…

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4
Credit Valley Conservation Authority

Credit Valley Conservation Authority (CVCA) is one of 36 Conservation Authorities in Ontario with a mandate to ensure Ontario’s water land and natural habitats are conserved restored and responsibly managed through watershed-based programs…

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5
The Guelph Community Foundation

The guelph community foundation and its donors strengthen our community by making grants building and maintaining endowment funds and serving our community as a philanthropic resource and partner. grants are disbursed to qualified donees…

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6
Thames Valley School District

Thames valley district school board (tvdsb) provides public education on an equal opportunity basis enabling all learners to develop the skills attitude knowledge and values that will empower them to participate in and contribute…

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7
Nottawasaga Valley Conservation Authority

Actively manage floodplains in accordance with the Conservation Authorities Act & Provincial Policy Statement meeting principles of prevention protection and emergency response. As well as Natural Heritage Plans as part of Municipal…

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8
Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority

To provide leadership in the protection and restoration of the environmental health and quality of Lake Simcoe and its watershed with our community municipal and other government partners. Provide technical and educational services. The…

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9
Kettle Creek Environmental Trust

To carry out programs whereby the natural resources of the watershed may be conserved restored developed and managed including programs such as tree planting wetland creation and land conservation. to advance education with respect to the…

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10
The Georgian College of Applied Arts and Technology

Georgian College is an educational institution that provides full-time post secondary programs including partnerships with various universities providing upgrading trades and apprenticeship programs career interest courses and provides…

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11
Hamilton Region Conservation Authority

Recreational trails and activities such as camping and boating protecting people and property from flooding and erosion acquire lands for greenspace operate outdoor education programs

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12
Kawartha Region Conservation Authority

Kawartha conservation is a watershed-based non-profit organization established in 1979 by the municipalities within our watershed under the ontario conservation authorities act. we are one of 36 conservation authorities operating in…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Upper Grand District School Board and the most unlike its peers is The Ruthven Park Foundation. 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

31 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. 31 of the 36 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
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 budgetGrand River Conservation Authority — C$4,429,700 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetBrant Haldimand-Norfolk Catholic School Board — C$21,750 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetWaterloo Region District School Board — C$11,125 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetUpper Grand District School Board — C$11,110 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Erie District School Board — C$8,095 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWaterloo Catholic District School Board — C$6,490 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED — C$6,172 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWellington Catholic District School Board — C$5,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetGuelph Enabling Garden — C$2,250 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetGalt Horticultural Society — C$1,650 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetKitchener Horticultural Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWest Village Community Development Co-operative — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRuthven National Historic Site — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCrossing All Bridges Learning Centre — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRamoth Life Centre — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALEDONIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$750 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetELMIRA DISTRICT COMMUNITY LIVING — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt. John's Nursery School — C$750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBethel Stone United Church — C$750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSt. John Ambulance — C$725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRUTHVEN NATIONAL HISTORICAL SITE — C$700 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOODLAND CULTURAL CENTRE — C$650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTRE — C$650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDunnville Horticultural Society — C$636 over 1y, 1.9% of budget31 Guelph Scouts — C$600 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUNBEAM CENTRE — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPollination Guelph — C$500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSalvation Army Kitchener — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetElora Environment Centre — C$500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetKinbridge Community Association — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpper Grand Learning Foundation — C$500 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…The Guelph Community …Waterloo Region Commu…Indigo Love of Readin…Stratford Shakespeare…Brant Community Found…Cambridge & North Dum…Pollination GuelphThe Roman Catholic Ep…United Way Waterloo R…Community Foundations…Canada Gives
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON13.9× 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 · The Guelph Community Foundation · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada · Brant Community Foundation · Cambridge & North Dumfries Community Foundation · Pollination Guelph · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of the Diocese of Hamilton in Ontario · United Way Waterloo Region Communities · Community Foundations of Canada · Canada Gives

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 36 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 public amenities.

Source object 118946045:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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