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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

Oceans North Conservation Society

OCEANS NORTH CONSERVATION SOCIETY’s mandate is to promote the conservation of canada’s northern oceans and the resulting well-being of people and communities who rely upon its natural wealth

C$221k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$8k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$28k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$185k
C$50,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ECOLOGY ACTION CENTREC$75,000
MAKEWAYC$60,000
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETYC$50,000
WILDLAND LEAGUEC$28,000
SIMRESC$8,000
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$620k · 6 repeat orgsC$226k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

C$620k
C$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$68k went to new ones.

50%100%’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
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$162k · revenue +51%
  • EA
    ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$105k · revenue +11%
  • DS
    DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$65k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • IT
    INUIT TAPIRIT KANATAMIgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$113k · revenue +55%
  • WW
    WORLD WILDLIFE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · C$30k · revenue +11%
  • CN
    CHURCHILL NORTHERN STUDIES CENTRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k · revenue +20%

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
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 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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3
Natureserve Canada

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

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4
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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5
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation-Fondation Du Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Canada

The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…

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6
Earthroots Fund

Earthroots fund works to promote the protection of canada's wilderness wildlife and watersheds through research and public education

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7
Ontario Nature Inc.

1) the federation of ontario naturalists (operating as ontario nature) protects ontario's wild species and wild spaces through conservation education and public engagement. 2) the federation of ontario naturalists (operating as ontario…

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8
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists

Nature Nova Scotia (also known as the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) exists to aid in the communication and cooperation among naturalists natural history societies and other nature-focused groups in Nova Scotia. We profile and…

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9
Wilderness International (Canada)

Wilderness international (canada) dedicates its daily work to legally secure the purchase of ecologically valuable and acutely threatened wilderness areas around the world in order to protect them in perpetuity. this land is used to teach…

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10
Canadian Council on Invasive Species

The council works collaboratively across jurisdictional boundaries to support actions and information that can help reduce the threat and impacts of invasive species.

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11
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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12
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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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 Dunsford United Church. 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

10 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. 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
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$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWILDLAND LEAGUE — C$173,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY — C$162,483 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetINUIT TAPIRIT KANATAMI — C$113,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE — C$105,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATURE CANADA — C$65,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMAKEWAY — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA — C$50,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHURCHILL NORTHERN STUDIES CENTRE — C$15,000 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.

Makeway FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Abundance CanadaBenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Makeway FoundationBC7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Abundance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · 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.

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 11 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 environment.

Source object 720704295:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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