Whitby, ON · Charitable organization
Ontario Eastern Bluebird Society
Monitoring and keeping records of bluebird populations banding and nesting.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ontario Field Ornithologists | C$2,000 |
| University of Guelph | C$1,000 |
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.
4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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
- OFOntario Field Ornithologists5× · 2017–2024 · C$6k · revenue +37%
- BSBird Studies Canada - Baillie Fund2× · 2017–2018 · C$2k · revenue +129%
- FOFederation of Ontario Naturalists (Ontario Nature)3× · 2017–2020 · C$2k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- NCNature Conservancy of Canadagraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue +44%
- RCRare Charitable Research Reserveone grant, 2018 · C$1k · revenue +14%
- BSBird Studies Canada - Baillie Fundone grant, 2019 · C$1k
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…
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…
Research and studies related to the conservation of marine life; identifying endangered marine species determining what their habitat needs are and how best to protect them and building the evidence base to support conservation efforts.
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…
The preservation of the natural environment by undertaking supporting and supervising research made available to the public.
Promote (stimulate) the study of ornithology by offering university scholarships for canadian students promote research in ornithology recognize excellence among canadian ornithologists edit three bulletins annually (picoides) contribute…
The ottawa field-naturalists' club is a volunteer registered charitable organization and is the oldest natural history club in canada. the club's ongoing programs include the publication of a national refereed scientific journal called the…
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…
The Bruce Trail Conservancy (BTC) is one of Ontario’s largest land trusts and the steward of Canada’s longest marked footpath. We actively preserve and care for land within the Niagara Escarpment UNESCO World Biosphere to protect its…
Promote sustainable resource use - Protecting Ontario's wildlands and natural areas - Research and provide input re parks management - Educate public on importance of parks - Scientifically analyze forest policy;confer with industry on…
Maintaining and managing fourteen nature reserves Monitoring endangered & other species on reserves Assessing whether to acquire new properties Communicating with members & donors
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ontario Nature Inc. and the most unlike its peers is University of Guelph. 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 9 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.
- Who funds Ontario Field Ornithologists ↗
- Who funds Nature Conservancy of Canada ↗
- Who funds Bird Studies Canada - Baillie Fund ↗
- Who funds Federation of Ontario Naturalists (Ontario Nature) ↗
- Who funds The Owl Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Guelph ↗
- Who funds Rare Charitable Research Reserve ↗
- Who funds Long Point Basin Land Trust ↗
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: My Tribute Gift Foundation · 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.