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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

Makeway Charitable Society

MakeWay Charitable Society's purpose is to build partnerships and solutions that help nature and communities thrive together.

C$2.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$697k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$176k
  • C$50k–250k13 grants · C$1.4M
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$997k
C$80,750
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Council of the Haida NationC$697,328
T ilhqot in National GovernmentC$300,000
Joint Secretariat Inuvialuit Settlement RegionC$200,000
Maaqutusiis Hahoulthee Stewardship SocietyC$145,000
BeneFaction FoundationC$128,500
MakeWay FoundatonC$126,191
Environmental Defence Canada IncC$115,000
Individual grant recipientC$100,750
Ecojustice Canada SocietyC$95,000
Kitsumkalum Band CouncilC$90,750
MetlakatlaC$83,750
Individual grant recipientC$80,750
Individual grant recipientC$80,750
Individual grant recipientC$80,750
The Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment FC$53,000
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.6M · 31 repeat orgsC$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
65

Total granted

C$5.6M
C$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+25%

Still filing today

61%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$870k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • ED
    Environment Defence Canada Inc
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$489k · revenue +86%
  • EC
    ECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$362k · revenue +56%
  • MF
    MakeWay Foundaton
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$242k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • É
    Équiterre
    one grant, 2019 · C$123k · revenue +24%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k
  • ED
    ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA INC
    one grant, 2020 · C$86k

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
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
Global Indigenous Development Trust

Global Indigenous Development Trust engages in community economic development training and empowerment partnership building education and advocacy. We work with First Peoples who drive our projects together with industry academic…

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3
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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4
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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5
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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6
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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7
T Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation

EDUCATE THE PUBLIC OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AS THE IMPORTANCE OF FISHERIES HABITAT CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC GROWTH AND FISHERIES HABITAT. Citizen science project empowering fish…

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8
The Resilience Institute

The organization develops educational programs & conducts active participatory research on climate change & sustainability. Priority program areas include developing the capacity of Indigenous Communities to adapt to climate impacts &…

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9
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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10
Ecotrust Canada

Supported rural remote and indigenous communities in creating community-led economic development solutions that are thriving sustainable and equitable. our work involved providing technical expertise project management business planning…

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11
Awinakola Foundation

Programs to educate and increase the public’s understanding of ecology and ecosystems sustainable resource use and the importance of conservation and restoring ecosystems. Educate the public about Indigenous climate and environmental…

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12
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Child and Family Services of Toronto and the most unlike its peers is Raising the Roof Chez Toit. 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

64 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. 64 of the 106 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
48/64
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 budgetEnvironment Defence Canada Inc — C$488,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY — C$361,800 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetHIV LEGAL NETWORK — C$251,046 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetMakeWay Foundaton — C$242,053 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCanadian Association of Physicians for the Environment Found — C$223,500 over 6y, 19% of budgetBeneFaction Foundation — C$128,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMALL CHANGE FUND — C$126,765 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetÉquiterre — C$122,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBreast Cancer Action Québec — C$116,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY — C$74,592 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEAST SCARBOROUGH BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB — C$74,471 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund — C$66,791 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Circle on Philanthropy — C$65,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetUVic-School of Environmental Studies — C$58,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGITGA'AT FIRST NATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetNative Child and Family Services of Toronto — C$38,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetScarborough Women's Centre — C$33,613 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWatershed Watch Salm on Society — C$33,200 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe Students Commission of Canada — C$31,708 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRSBC Rivershed Society of British Columbia — C$30,600 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Dragonfly Fund — C$30,567 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLiving Lakes Canada Society — C$30,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetSkeenaWild Conservation Trust — C$29,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe David Suzuki Foundation — C$26,420 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOcean Wise Conservation Association — C$25,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSKETCH Working Arts — C$24,808 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGreen Communities Canada — C$20,840 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCentre for Indigenous Environmental Resources — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetChildren's Peace Theatre — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSwim Drink Fish Canada — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWaabinong Head Start Family Resource Centre — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetScarborough Arts — C$14,250 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetSHKAGAMIK-KWE HEALTH CENTRE — C$14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJumblies Theatre — C$13,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetde Gaspé Beaubien Foundation — C$13,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMINWAASHIN LODGE - ABORIGINAL WOMEN'S SUPPORT CENTRE — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKATERI NATIVE MINISTRY OF OTTAWA — C$12,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetSHINGWAUK EDUCATION TRUST — C$11,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFINDING OUR POWER TOGETHER — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetThe Youth Connection Association Inc — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetRaising the Roof Chez Toit — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetArt Stsarts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSalmon Coast Society — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetVisions of Science Network for Learning — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWestern Canada Wilderness Committee — C$7,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORIA COMMUNITY FOOD HUB SOCIETY — C$5,336 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetVariety Village — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommon Ground Co-operative Inc — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds Environment Defence Canada Inc ↗
  • Who funds ECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HIV LEGAL NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds MakeWay Foundaton ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment Found ↗
  • Who funds BeneFaction Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SMALL CHANGE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Équiterre ↗
  • Who funds Breast Cancer Action Québec ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds EAST SCARBOROUGH BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB ↗
  • Who funds The Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund ↗
  • Who funds The Circle on Philanthropy ↗
  • Who funds UVic-School of Environmental Studies ↗
  • Who funds GITGA'AT FIRST NATION ↗

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.

Makeway FoundationLaidlaw FoundationThe Sitka FoundationThe J W McConnell Fam…Toronto FoundationThe McLean FoundationThe George Cedric Met…Fondation Écho /Echo …Nature Canada / Canad…North Family Foundati…Inspirit FoundationTd Friends of the Env…
Makeway FoundationBC27.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · Laidlaw Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Toronto Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · North Family Foundation · Inspirit Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment 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 106 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under environment.

Source object 130560188:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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