Niagara Falls, ON · Charitable organization
Niagara Falls Nature Club
Welcoming anyone interested in nature or the environment to monthly meetings with speakers on relevant topics.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OWL FOUNDATION | C$350 |
| NIAGARA COLLEGE | C$130 |
| PELHAM CARES | C$50 |
| BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY | C$50 |
| BIRDS CANADA | C$35 |
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 +114% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50 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
- NCNIAGARA COLLEGE2× · 2022–2024 · C$3k · revenue +114%
- BCBIRDS CANADA3× · 2021–2024 · C$1k · revenue +42%
- BTBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY6× · 2017–2024 · C$300 · revenue +283%
Funded once
- HFHeartland Forestone grant, 2017 · C$225 · revenue -2%
- BUBROCK UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · C$200 · revenue +17%
- NCNATURE CONSERVANCY CANADAgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$50 · revenue +44%
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
The npca administers programs to further the conservation restoration and development of lands within its geographical juridiction
Ongoing programs the npca administers programs to further the conservation restoration and development of lands within its geographical jurisdiction
TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…
Conservation Halton is a community based environmental agency that protects restores and manages the watershed's conservation areas forests creeks Niagara Escarpment lands source water protection sites and biodiversity through science…
The Land Conservancy for Kingston Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (LC-KFL&A) owns 13 properties (one property newly acquired in 2022) and 2 conservation easements totalling just over 450 hectares of protected land providing habitat for 18…
Freshwater conservation canada is committed to conserving protecting and restoring canada's freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations. programs and projects are delivered by our professional…
LAND USE AND BIODIVERSITY Land use is a general term and it refers to how we build on use protect travel across reside on and play on the physical land base and the waters that support it. Land use decision-making is the primary vector for…
NWC is focused on helping sick injured and orphaned native wildlife species through wildlife medical care rehabilitation & training. More than 500 animals were seen for medical treatment over the past year and most were released by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Owl Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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: Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · The Ontario Paper Thorold Foundation · United Way Niagara · Hamilton Community Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.