Toronto, ON · Charitable organization
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$14k
- C$10k–50k17 grants · C$466k
- C$50k–250k9 grants · C$802k
- C$250k+3 grants · C$8.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TLA O QUI AHT FIRST NATION (PUBLIC SECTOR BODY) | C$4,497,428 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$3,000,000 |
| COAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATION | C$778,772 |
| MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY | C$160,400 |
| KITASOO BAND COUNCIL (PUBLIC SECTOR BODY) | C$117,000 |
| MISIPAWISTIK CREE NATION (PUBLIC SECTOR BODY) | C$99,500 |
| GITGA AT FIRST NATION | C$87,735 |
| WUSKWI SIPIHK FIRST NAITON (PUBLIC SECTOR BODY) | C$84,500 |
| TAKU RIVER TLINGIT FIRST NATION | C$75,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$70,000 |
| KANAKA BAR (PUBLIC SECTOR BODY) | C$58,000 |
| TAKLA LAKE FIRST NATION | C$50,000 |
| NUXALK NATION (PUBLIC SECTOR BODY) | C$47,000 |
| HUU AT AHT FRST NATION | C$45,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$40,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 79% of grant dollars (C$14M). The 21% that went abroad (C$3.6M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 21% of all-years giving (C$3.6M)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3.6M went to new ones.
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
- CCCOAST CONSERVATION ENDOWMENT FUND FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · C$2.4M · revenue ×26
- TCTIDES CANADA FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.9M · revenue +70%
- BBBELLA BELLA COMMUNITY SCHOOL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · C$642k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- KFKWAIKAH FIRST NATION (PUBLIC SECTOR BODY)one grant, 2023 · C$115k
- LKLUTSEL K'E DENE FIRST NATION (PUBLIC SERVICE BODY)one grant, 2019 · C$105k
- LKLUTSEL K'E DENE BAND COUNCIL (PUBLIC SERVICE BODY)one grant, 2021 · C$100k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
Developing educational programs and resources on ocean conservation.
Watershed restoration including restoring fish habitat in the upper rivervine systems and the Squamish estuary. Running educational and outreach programming for students and community. Hosting and holding events (Earth Day Rivers Day).…
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…
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…
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…
Coordination fo the friends of wild salmon coalition - convening of community groups and first nations on issues related to wild salmon in northwest b.c. - research on wild salmon in northwest watersheds. - public education on issues…
Community education on environmental concerns. Research.
Preserve and enhance the Gorge Waterway in Victoria BC in Lekwungen territory through environmental and climate education restoration conservation stewardship biological monitoring and community involvement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Harmony Foundation of Canada La fondation harmonie du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Li - the Leadership Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 78 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · North Family Foundation · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · Vancouver Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.