Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization
Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club
The ottawa field-naturalists' club is a volunteer registered charitable organization and is the oldest natural history club in canada.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ONTARIO NATURE (FEDERATION OF ONTARIO NATURALISTS) | C$10,000 |
| OTTAWA-CARLETON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD (MACSKIMMINGS PROGRAM) | C$5,000 |
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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- ODOTTAWA-CARLETON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD5× · 2017–2024 · C$25k · revenue +40%
- ONONTARIO NATURE (FEDERATION OF ONTARIO NATURALISTS)2× · 2020–2024 · C$15k · revenue +43%
- TNTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA2× · 2021–2022 · C$11k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +43%
- IPINNIS POINT BIRD OBSERVATORYone grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue -21% · 93% of their budget
- VHVANLEEK HILL & DISTRICT NATURE SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue +110% · 62% of their budget
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.
Operating under the name BC Nature The Federation of British Columbia Naturalists is the umbrella organization supporting over 53 local natural history organizations located throughout British Columbia. Ongoing programs include: i)…
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.
Birds Canada is a leading national charitable organization dedicated to bird conservation. Every day our thousands of caring donors 100+ passionate staff and 70 000+ outstanding Citizen Science volunteers are taking action to help us…
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…
1) To identify and address gaps in knowledge of Canada's biological diversity. 2) To promote the importance of fundamental taxonomic research on Canada's species. 3) To promote awareness of the values and vulnerabilities of Canada's…
The preservation of the natural environment by undertaking supporting and supervising research made available to the public.
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…
Stewardship of ecologically important lands organize nature hikes and educational trips provide education about local nature and ecology wetland stewardship bluebird nest box program humming bird banding program participation in local bird…
1. birding programs- thunder bay cape observatory (tcbo) bluebird recovery program other species at risk 2. conservation / stewardship - nature reserves acqusitions / preservation ontario heritage trust orchard reserve monitoring 3.…
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…
1. Surveying local bird populations and providing data to Bird Studies Canada. 2. Gathering data for butterfly studies by conducting two annual Butterfly Counts in Renfrew County. 3. Contributing odonata data to the Toronto Entomologists…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vankleek Hill & District Nature Society and the most unlike its peers is University of British Columbia. 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.
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 OTTAWA-CARLETON DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ↗
- Who funds ONTARIO NATURE (FEDERATION OF ONTARIO NATURALISTS) ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds INNIS POINT BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds VANLEEK HILL & DISTRICT NATURE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS ↗
- Who funds ST. BASIL'S PARISH ↗
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.
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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.