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Peterborough, ON · Charitable organization

Ontario Wildlife Foundation

The owf continued to fund a variety of programs in 2024.

C$113k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$48k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$65k
C$5,130
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$127k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS AND HUNTERS - ATLANTIC SALMONC$30,000
ONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS AND HUNTERS-COMMUNITY HATCHERYC$25,000
THE COUCHICHING CONSERVANCYC$10,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$7,000
ONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS AND HUNTERS - INVASIVE SPECIESC$6,325
TROUT UNLIMITED CANADAC$6,000
INVASIVE SPECIES CENTRE SAULT STE. MARIE ONC$5,130
THE OWL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
OAK RIDGES MORAINE LAND TRUSTC$5,000
HALTON REGION CONSERVATION FDTN - WATERFESTC$5,000
WATERSHEDS CANADAC$5,000
FRIENDS OF THE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNINGC$1,600
PETEROBOUGH GREEN UP - CHILDREN'S WATER FESTIVALC$1,500
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$679k · 15 repeat orgsC$120k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
20

Total granted

C$679k
C$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA - ONTARIO REGION
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$51k · revenue +101%
  • OF
    ONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS AND HUNTERS (LAKE ONTARIO ATLA
    3× · 2018–2021 · C$48k · revenue +53%
  • OT
    ONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$26k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LAND BETWEEN
    one grant, 2022 · C$23k · revenue -53%
  • PW
    Procyon Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centregraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +197%
  • NN
    NEAR NORTH ENVIRO-EDUCATION CENTRE -PHRAGMITES WORKI
    one grant, 2022 · C$9k · revenue -33%

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
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

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…

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2
The Halton Region Conservation Authority

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…

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3
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

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…

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4
Kawartha Region Conservation Authority

Kawartha conservation is a watershed-based non-profit organization established in 1979 by the municipalities within our watershed under the ontario conservation authorities act. we are one of 36 conservation authorities operating in…

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5
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada

A) Terrestrial Parks and Protected Areas Program - To establish new and expanded terrestrial protected areas while protecting nature in our existing parks; - To protect wilderness ecosystems across Canada; and - To educate Canadians about…

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6
Wildlands League

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…

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7
Natureserve Canada

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

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8
Lake Simcoe Region Conservation Authority

To provide leadership in the protection and restoration of the environmental health and quality of Lake Simcoe and its watershed with our community municipal and other government partners. Provide technical and educational services. The…

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9
Upper Thames River Conservation Authority

We achieve our goals through myriad programs which take a holistic ecosystem approach. The UTRCA's 'ends' are to: protect life and property from flood and erosion protect and improve water quality preserve and manage natural areas provide…

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10
Oceans Research and Conservation Association - Orca

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.

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11
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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12
Island Nature Trust

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ontario Nature Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Trent University. 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

34 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. 34 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
28/34
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 budgetOntario Federation of Anglers and Hunters (Lake Ontario Atla — C$404,144 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA - ONTARIO REGION — C$50,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS AND HUNTERS (LAKE ONTARIO ATLA — C$47,560 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE — C$25,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTORONTO WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$24,800 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTROUT UNLIMITED CANADA — C$22,950 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LAND BETWEEN — C$22,600 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetConservation Halton Foundation — C$21,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBig Brothers/Big Sisters of Guelph — C$19,437 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetONTARIO STREAMS — C$13,906 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE OWL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetProcyon Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre — C$10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetWATERSHEDS CANADA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ECOLOGICAL ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING — C$9,400 over 6y, 6.4% of budgetNEAR NORTH ENVIRO-EDUCATION CENTRE -PHRAGMITES WORKI — C$8,878 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetECOSPARK — C$7,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetONTARIO HORTICULTURAL TRADES FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPETERBOROUGH GREEN UP - CHILDREN'S WATER FESTIVAL — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVE — C$5,825 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALUS Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP KAWARTHA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDucks Unlimited Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIRDS CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTH RANGERS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOAK RIDGES MORAINE LAND TRUST — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWildlife Preservation Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSANDY PINES WILDLIFE CENTRE — C$4,714 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$4,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrowe Valley Conservation Authority — C$2,951 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetONTARIO NATURE — C$2,415 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBird Ecology and Conservation Ontario — C$2,150 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMISSISSIPPI VALLEY CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCentral Lake Ontario Conservation — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Td Friends of the Env…The McLean FoundationHelen McCrea Peacock …Fondation Écho /Echo …J.P. Bickell Foundati…Ontario Federation of…Greenbelt FoundationNature Canada / Canad…Toronto FoundationThe Catherine and Max…Jackman FoundationGordon and Patricia G…
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON21.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Helen McCrea Peacock Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundation · Greenbelt Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · Toronto Foundation · The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation · Jackman Foundation · Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation

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 37 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under foundations.

Source object 889283412:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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