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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

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.

C$663k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k24 grants · C$118k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$237k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$308k
C$8,067
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$6.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alliance of Canadian Land TrustsC$104,972
Federation of British Columbia NaturalistsC$104,648
Federation of Ontario NaturalistsC$98,000
Friends of Shoal Harbour SocietyC$34,700
Blomidon Naturalists SocietyC$34,654
Long Point World Biosphere ReserveC$27,500
Earthvalues InstituteC$21,000
Friends of Wye MarshC$18,846
Individual grant recipientC$17,450
MakeWay Charitable SocietyC$17,325
Individual grant recipientC$15,653
Individual grant recipientC$15,424
Beaverhill Bird Observatory SocietyC$14,070
Canadian Parks & Wilderness SocietyC$10,400
Flap CanadaC$10,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$1.3M
British Columbia
C$1.3M
Nova Scotia
C$352k
Quebec
C$274k
Alberta
C$269k
Saskatchewan
C$216k
New Brunswick
C$195k
Manitoba
C$63k
Prince Edward Island
C$31k
Yukon
C$14k
Northwest Territories
C$5k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.1M · 60 repeat orgsC$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
90

Total granted

C$3.1M
C$782k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+16%

Still filing today

95%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$325k 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

  • CP
    Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$221k · revenue +169%
  • SN
    SASKATCHEWAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$172k · revenue +21%
  • FO
    Federation of Ontario Naturalists
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$167k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • EE
    ENDANGERED ECOSYSTEMS ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2022 · C$80k · revenue -40%
  • AO
    Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts
    one grant, 2023 · C$66k
  • TC
    THE CALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$55k · revenue +20%

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
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
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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3
The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour La Conservation De La Nature

As Canada’s largest environmental charity the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has worked with partners to conserve natural landscapes since 1962. Together we deliver solutions to address the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate…

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4
Natureserve Canada

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

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5
Canadian Wildlife Federation/FÉDÉRation Canadienne De La Faune

Cwf’s mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of canada’s wildlife and habitat for the use and enjoyment of all through research direct programming education and advocacy. cwf is recognized for our leadership in bringing…

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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
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…

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8
The Canadian Council On Ecological Areas - Le Conseil Canadien Des Aires ÉCologiques

The canadian council on ecological areas (ccea) is a national leader in providing evidence-based guidance in the establishment and management of a comprehensive network of ecological areas to contribute to the conservation and restoration…

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9
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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10
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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11
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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12
The Nature Trust of British Columbia

The Nature Trust of British Columbia acquires land through purchase and donation for the purpose of conserving natural habitat. The Trust also actively manages the land through habitat restoration and conservation projects. Much of our…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Cursillo Movement of the Diocese of New Westminster. 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

156 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. 156 of the 172 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)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
154/156
Grantees still filing
101/156
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 budgetCanadian Parks and Wilderness Society — C$221,212 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY — C$172,238 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetFederation of Ontario Naturalists — C$166,533 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SHOAL HARBOUR — C$159,240 over 6y, 73% of budgetPrince Edward Point Bird Observatory — C$148,736 over 7y, 21% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF NEW BRUNSWICK INC. — C$143,561 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetFEDERATION OF ALBERTA NATURALISTS — C$140,570 over 7y, 15% of budgetYOUNG NATURALISTS CLUB OF BC SOCIETY — C$131,590 over 4y, 25% of budgetNATURE QUEBEC — C$118,090 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetAlliance of Canadian Land Trusts — C$104,972 over 1y, 24% of budgetFederation of British Columbia Naturalists — C$104,648 over 1y, 45% of budgetLong Point World Biosphere Reserve — C$103,926 over 8y, 31% of budgetBIRDSTUDIES CANADA — C$102,961 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetEarthvalues Institute — C$93,650 over 8y, 92% of budgetBC Naturalists Foundation — C$93,000 over 2y, 47% of budgetOKANAGAN SIMILKAMEEN CONSERVATION ALLIANCE — C$90,210 over 6y, 40% of budgetENDANGERED ECOSYSTEMS ALLIANCE — C$79,675 over 1y, 12% of budgetBlomidon Naturalists Society — C$78,647 over 4y, 25% of budgetWildlands League — C$69,875 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$62,965 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG NATURALISTS CLUB — C$62,685 over 7y, 39% of budgetEcology Action Centre — C$61,027 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWest Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation — C$56,854 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — C$54,728 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Shore Joint Initiative — C$53,259 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFlap Canada — C$50,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetThe David Suzuki Foundation — C$48,063 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNature Nova Scotia. — C$44,881 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetConservation Council of New Brunswick Inc. — C$43,970 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetBC NATURE — C$41,135 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetCoast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBeaverhill Bird Observatory Society — C$38,708 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetFriends of Wye Marsh — C$35,521 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetRAILS YOUTH INITIATIVES INC. — C$34,325 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetTHE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$32,420 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR WILDLIFE SOCIETY — C$30,727 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCanadian Museum of Nature — C$28,452 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBritish Columbia Waterfowl Society — C$23,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetILE-A-LA CROSSE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE INCORPORATED — C$21,941 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITE ST. ANNE — C$19,894 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND NATURE TRUST — C$19,500 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetSWAN LAKE CHRISTMAS HILL NATURE SANCTUARY SOCIETY — C$18,396 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetVANCOUVER BOTANICAL GARDENS ASSOCIATION — C$18,223 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetOTTAWA VALLEY WILD BIRD CARE CENTRE — C$17,110 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGeorgian Bay Biosphere — C$16,657 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY — C$15,650 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetQuébec Oiseaux — C$15,165 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetRSBC RIVERSHED SOCIETY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$15,082 over 1y, 0.7% 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 Gosling FoundationThe McLean FoundationFondation Écho /Echo …The Sitka FoundationWorld Wildlife Fund C…The Schad FoundationThe Nature Conservanc…Makeway FoundationBirds Canada / Oiseau…Pacific Salmon Founda…Ontario Land Trust Al…
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON31.5× affinity80 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 Gosling Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · The Schad Foundation · The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Nature · Makeway Foundation · Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada · Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifique · Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.

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 172 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 animal welfare.

Source object 118834704:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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