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Dundas, ON · Charitable organization

Hamilton Naturalists' Club

Promotion of the appreciation and conservation of flora fauna and wildlands by: 1) Providing member services; including monthly meetings with speakers (open to the public) published newsletter (9x a year) nature appreciation walks and field trips public internet bird sighting postings and internet website with live webcams; 2)…

C$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
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01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
McMaster UniversityC$1,000
Ontario Field OrnithologistsC$1,000
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$17k · 5 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

C$17k
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+129%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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

  • RB
    Royal Botanical Gardens
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$7k · revenue +10%
  • LP
    LONG POINT BASIN LAND TRUST
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$6k · revenue ×13
  • ON
    Ontario Nature
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$3k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CO
    City of Hamilton
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k
  • TH
    The Halton Region Conservation Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$789 · revenue +70%
  • HW
    Hobbitstee Wildlife Refugegraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$100 · revenue +180%

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
Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario

1. Research to advance the conservation of songbird species at risk in agricultural landscapes; and 2. Research to improve our understanding of the distribution abundance and productivity of songbird species at risk.

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2
Pelee Island Bird Observatory

Collects and collates scientific data related to migratory bird studies delivers public outreach education programs and actively collaborates with avian organizations along the Americas flyways.

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3
Ottawa Bird Count
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4
Federation of British Columbia Naturalists

Operating under the name BC Nature The Federation of British Columbia Naturalists is the umbrella organization supporting over 53 local natural history organizations located throughout British Columbia. Ongoing programs include: i)…

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5
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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6
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

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7
Ontario Eastern Bluebird Society

Monitoring and keeping records of bluebird populations banding and nesting. Maintaining nest boxes and trails Providing a forum for members and general public to share experiences and exchange ideas Assisting people starting to put up…

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8
Natureserve Canada

The preservation of the natural environment by undertaking supporting and supervising research made available to the public.

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9
The Pembroke Area Field Naturalists

1. Surveying local bird populations and providing data to Bird Studies Canada. 2. Gathering data for butterfly studies by conducting two annual Butterfly Counts in Renfrew County. 3. Contributing odonata data to the Toronto Entomologists…

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10
Thunder Bay Field Naturalists Club

1. birding programs- thunder bay cape observatory (tcbo) bluebird recovery program other species at risk 2. conservation / stewardship - nature reserves acqusitions / preservation ontario heritage trust orchard reserve monitoring 3.…

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11
Island Nature Trust

land acquisition through donation and purchase application of protection to those lands stewardship and management to retain ecological integrity protection and monitoring of species-at-risk nature education and engagement programs…

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12
The Bruce Trail Conservancy

The Bruce Trail Conservancy (BTC) is one of Ontario’s largest land trusts and the steward of Canada’s longest marked footpath. We actively preserve and care for land within the Niagara Escarpment UNESCO World Biosphere to protect its…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ontario Nature Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Mcmaster University. 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
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 budgetRoyal Botanical Gardens — C$6,976 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLONG POINT BASIN LAND TRUST — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOntario Nature — C$2,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE PENINSULA BIRD OBSERVATORY — C$1,375 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOntario Field Ornithologists — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMcMaster University — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Halton Region Conservation Foundation — C$789 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Owl Foundation — C$370 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHobbitstee Wildlife Refuge — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFatal Light Awareness Program (FLAP) Canada — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBird Studies Canada — C$50 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 McLean FoundationBirds Canada / Oiseau…Takla FoundationHamilton Community Fo…Td Friends of the Env…United Way Golden Hor…Canada GivesToronto FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…My Tribute Gift Found…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way East Ontar…
The McLean FoundationON8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McLean Foundation · Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada · Takla Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Canada Gives · Toronto Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario

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 12 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 2024-04-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under animal welfare.

Source object 118951748:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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