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Makeway Foundation

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

C$22M
Granted FY2024still arriving
372
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
Regions reached
C$2.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 372 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k125 grants · C$382k
  • C$10k–50k140 grants · C$3.0M
  • C$50k–250k95 grants · C$11M
  • C$250k+12 grants · C$8.4M
C$16,000
Median grant
12
Regions reached
C$92M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Veritas FoundationC$2,224,568
Mother Tree Network SocietyC$1,597,182
Gitanyow Huwilp SocietyC$940,600
Institute for New Economics Public Interest ResearchC$811,868
Nuxalk NationC$453,200
Taku River Tlingit First NationC$429,894
The University of British ColumbiaC$380,400
Mushkegowuk CouncilC$360,000
Individual grant recipientC$347,898
T'akhu  Tlèn ConservancyC$300,000
Office of the Wet'suwet'enC$273,000
NAN Charitable TrustC$250,000
Clayoquot Biosphere Trust SocietyC$232,100
Ucwalmicw Centre SocietyC$230,000
Deninu K'ue First NationC$220,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 83% of grant dollars (C$97M). The 17% that went abroad (C$19M) is mapped below.

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$57M
Ontario
C$21M
Northwest Territories
C$6.4M
Manitoba
C$4.8M
Nunavut
C$3.3M
Yukon
C$1.8M
Quebec
C$955k
Alberta
C$588k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$578k
Nova Scotia
C$464k
Saskatchewan
C$129k
New Brunswick
C$72k
Prince Edward Island
C$4k

Beyond home — 17% of all-years giving (C$19M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$17k · 3 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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$80M · 374 repeat orgsC$37M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

374 repeat relationships — 238 still active in FY2024, 136 since wound down; 133 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

374
388

Total granted

C$80M
C$28M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+24%

Still filing today

76%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8.5M 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

  • TC
    Tides Canada Initiatives Society
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$21M · revenue +127% · 35% of their budget
  • WW
    WATERSHED WATCH SALMON SOCIETY
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +45% · 61% of their budget
  • IF
    Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +625% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

  • GT
    Grand Total
    one grant, 2023 · C$19M
  • TL
    THE LANDMARK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$700k · revenue +14%
  • LT
    Lheidli T'enneh First Nation dba Lheidli T'enneh Band
    one grant, 2023 · C$300k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
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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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
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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4
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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5
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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6
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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7
Makeway Foundation

MakeWay Foundation's purpose is to build partnerships and solutions that help nature and communities thrive together. The Foundation supports convenes or funds hundreds of qualified donees every year from neighbourhood social programs to…

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8
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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9
Vancouver Status of Women

Vancouver Status of Women's ongoing work focuses on feminist community building with women and gender diverse peoples towards equity in social political and economic spheres. The Coordinating Collective provides ongoing support to…

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10
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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11
Whistler Centre for Sustainability Institute Society

Trottier Foundation: We hired Climate Caucus to develop a national network of locally elected representatives covering all provinces and territories and to host educational workshops for them to connect learn about and ultimately deploy…

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12
World Fisheries Trust

World fisheries trust created in 1995 is a canadian non-profit organization dedicated to the equitable and sustainable use and conservation of aquatic biodiversity. it acts locally and globally. the organization is not an activist group…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes and the most unlike its peers is Clavecin En Concert. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

742 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. 742 of the 895 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.

49
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
218
Early backer (in before they grew)
725/742
Grantees still filing
486/742
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTides Canada Initiatives Society — C$20,699,524 over 6y, 35% of budgetT-Gear Foundation — C$5,922,185 over 2y, 47% of budgetThe Veritas Foundation — C$2,224,568 over 1y, 49% of budgetTHE STAAL FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$1,545,495 over 4y, 87% of budgetT'akhu  Tlèn Conservancy — C$1,396,256 over 4y, 89% of budgetManitoba Food Charter Inc — C$1,168,863 over 7y, 46% of budgetWATERSHED WATCH SALMON SOCIETY — C$1,144,472 over 6y, 61% of budgetInstitute for New Economics Public Interest Research — C$1,114,368 over 6y, 47% of budgetUniversity of Victoria - POLIS Project — C$1,081,666 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSalai Foundation — C$1,059,471 over 7y, 46% of budgetCanadian Parks and Wilderness Society — C$1,030,160 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetThe Dena Kayeh Institute — C$976,158 over 7y, 25% of budgetCharities Aid Foundation Canada — C$839,925 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSKEENAWILD CONSERVATION TRUST — C$834,195 over 6y, 26% of budgetQqs (Eyes) Projects Society — C$790,750 over 7y, 21% of budgetInuvialuit Charitable Foundation — C$668,047 over 7y, 32% of budgetHaida Gwaii Museum Society — C$557,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetIlisaqsivik Society — C$530,499 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCANADIAN COASTAL RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$522,108 over 6y, 91% of budgetNikanihk Ohci Foundation Inc — C$508,805 over 7y, 95% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Canada — C$456,241 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNorthwest Institute for Bioregional Research Society — C$402,884 over 7y, 73% of budgetSierra Club of British Columbia Foundation — C$387,424 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetRSBC RIVERSHED SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$387,384 over 5y, 53% of budgetMoccasin Footprint Society — C$386,300 over 3y, 50% of budgetThe University of British Columbia — C$380,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEcotrust Canada — C$366,458 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetSmall Change Fund — C$349,762 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetEcojustice Canada Society — C$345,901 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetThe Arctic Eider Society — C$345,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetBeaufort-Delta Divisional Education Council — C$338,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDehchol Divisional Board of Education — C$319,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBC Spaces for Nautre Society — C$312,384 over 5y, 77% of budgetWEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$305,096 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetStqeeye Learning Society — C$301,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetKitikmeot Heritage Society — C$300,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetPartners in Possibility Foundation — C$294,750 over 1y, 60% of budgetSouth Slave Divisional Education Council (SSDEC) — C$276,510 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNAN Charitable Trust — C$275,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetIlitaqsiniq — C$266,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetVallum Society for Education in Arts & Letters — C$265,424 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetUcwalmicw Centre Society — C$262,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetBird Studies Canada — C$254,395 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetOxfam Canada — C$246,283 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Circle on Philanthropy — C$237,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetClayoquot Biosphere Trust Society — C$232,100 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetLi-The Leadership Institute — C$231,750 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetRhodes Scholarships in Canada — C$227,048 over 1y, 8.8% 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 Tides Canada Initiatives Society ↗
  • Who funds T-Gear Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Veritas Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Mother Tree Network Society ↗
  • Who funds THE STAAL FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds T'akhu  Tlèn Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds Manitoba Food Charter Inc ↗
  • Who funds WATERSHED WATCH SALMON SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Institute for New Economics Public Interest Research ↗
  • Who funds University of Victoria - POLIS Project ↗
  • Who funds Salai Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society ↗
  • Who funds The Dena Kayeh Institute ↗
  • Who funds Charities Aid Foundation Canada ↗
  • Who funds SKEENAWILD CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Qqs (Eyes) Projects Society ↗
  • Who funds THE LANDMARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Inuvialuit Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Haida Gwaii Museum Society ↗
  • Who funds Ilisaqsivik Society ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN COASTAL RESEARCH SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Nikanihk Ohci Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds World Wildlife Fund Canada ↗
  • Who funds Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research Society ↗
  • Who funds Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation ↗
  • Who funds RSBC RIVERSHED SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds Moccasin Footprint Society ↗

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 Sitka FoundationMakeway Charitable So…North Family Foundati…The Catherine Donnell…The Houssian Foundati…The Chawkers foundati…The McLean FoundationThe Harbinger Foundat…Donner Canadian Found…The George Cedric Met…Nature Canada / Canad…Ivey Foundation
The Sitka FoundationBC34.3× affinity56 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sitka Foundation · Makeway Charitable Society · North Family Foundation · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · The Houssian Foundation · The Chawkers foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Harbinger Foundation · Donner Canadian Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · Ivey 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 895 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 public foundation under community resource.

Source object 868947797:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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