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St Catharines, ON · Charitable organization

Niagara Action for Animals

Spay/neuter adoption and animals in distress programs assisting low income individuals with their pets vet care

C$162k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k24 grants · C$102k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$60k
C$5,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$145k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ETOBICOKE HUMANE SOCIETYC$15,000
BURLINGTON HUMANES SOCIETYC$15,000
PACIFIC ORCA SOCIETYC$10,000
HOBBITSTEE WILDLIFE REFUGEC$10,000
ZOOCHECK CANADAC$10,000
NIAGARA FALLS COMMUNITY CATSC$8,000
PORT COLBORNE FELINE INITIATIVEC$8,000
ANIMAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY OF NIAGARA REGIONC$8,000
MY GRANDFATHERS CATC$7,000
AMAZON RAINFOREST CONSERVANCYC$5,000
FARMHOUSE GARDEN ANIMAL HOMEC$5,000
INTERIOR WILDLIFE REHABILITATION SOCIETYC$5,000
ASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARYC$5,000
STORY BOOK FARM PRIMATE SANCTUARYC$5,000
PUMPKIN ACRES RABIT RESCUEC$5,000
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.

15%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$28k · 3 repeat orgsC$154k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
2

Total granted

C$28k
C$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+63%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$141k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • HW
    HOBBITSTEE WILDLIFE REFUGE
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$13k · revenue -20%
  • ZC
    ZOOCHECK CANADA
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$12k · revenue ×26
  • FC
    FLAP CANADA
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$4k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +4%
  • TO
    THE OWL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +63%

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
Wild At Heart Refuge Centre

Care of animals

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2
Bandit Ranch Rehab

Animal rehabilitation

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3
Wild Things Rehabilitation Society

Helping animals get rescued rehabilitated and released when they are injured or orphaned.

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4
Holly's Haven Wildlife Rescue

Education on wildlife natural history rehabilitation coexistence and resolving issues Rehabilitation for injured and orphaned wild mammals

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5
Constance Creek Wildlife Refuge

Adoption and rehabilitation of farm animals. sanctuary for farm animals. animal welfare education

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6
Ontario Reptile Rescue

Ontario Reptile Rescue is an animal rescue servicing Ontario. We rescue rehabilitate and re-home reptiles amphibians and other similar exotic pets. We also provide educational information for the public and promote the proper care and…

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7
Burr Foundation

Alleviate animal suffering animal and wildlife rescue

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8
Out of the Ashes Large Animal Rescue (Oalar)

Animal rescue sanctuary

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9
Procyon Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre

Rescue rehabilitation release orphaned and injuried wildlife

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10
Moose Mountain R N R Wildlife Rehabilitation Inc.

Rehabilitation Of Wildlife As Per The Rules And Regulations Of The Ministry Of The Environment For Release Back Into The Wild.

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11
Lily's Place Animal Sanctuary

Animal rescue service and sanctuary for aging abused neglected or otherwise homeless farm animals.

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12
The Ferret Aid Society

Rescue shelter rehabilitation adoption - 100% by volunteers

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Turtle Pond Wildlife Centre and the most unlike its peers is University of Windsor. 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

30 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. 30 of the 31 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
5/30
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 budgetETOBICOKE HUMANE SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHOBBITSTEE WILDLIFE REFUGE — C$12,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetZOOCHECK CANADA — C$11,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPACIFIC ORCA SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL ASSISTANCE SOCIETY OF NIAGARA REGION — C$8,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPORT COLBORNE FELINE INITIATIVE — C$8,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNIAGARA FALLS COMMUNITY CATS — C$8,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMY GRANDFATHERS CAT — C$7,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetSTORY BOOK FARM PRIMATE SANCTUARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetINTERIOR WILDLIFE REHABILITATION SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetASPEN VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAUNA FOUNDATION CHIMPANZEE SANCTUARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFARMHOUSE GARDEN ANIMAL HOME — C$5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTURTLE POND WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPUMPKIN ACRES RABIT RESCUE — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAMAZON RAINFOREST CONSERVANCY — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetFLAP CANADA — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetREFUGE RR POUR CHEVAUX — C$3,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPROMISED LAND ANIMAL SANCTUARY — C$3,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNORTH MOUNTAIN ANIMAL SANCTUARY SOCIETY — C$3,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetMERISCOPE — C$3,500 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetSWEET SANCTUARY ANIMAL RESCUE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE — C$2,558 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE OWL FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMANITOBA BEAR REHABILITATION CENTRE INC — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMARMOT RECOVERY FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEARTS ON NOSES A MINI PIG SANCTUARY — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE ASS MENAGERIE SANCTUARY — C$500 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.

The Eric S. Margolis …National Wildlife Reh…Gordon and Patricia G…Niagara Community Fou…Nickle Family Foundat…United Way NiagaraThe Calgary FoundationUnited Way Golden Hor…Ontario Power Generat…Toronto FoundationUnited Way Maritimes/…Telus Employees Chari…
The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. MargolisON13.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolis · National Wildlife Rehabilitation Foundation · Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation · Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · Nickle Family Foundation · United Way Niagara · The Calgary Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Toronto Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Telus Employees Charitable Trust

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 31 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 858683188:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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