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Owen Sound, ON · Charitable organization

Owen Sound Field Naturalists

Conduct educational materials & meetings workshops and outdoor activities increasing the public's understanding of environmental issues.

C$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$17k
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$10k4 grants · C$1k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$17k
C$400
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$67k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THR NATURE CONSERVANCY CANADAC$17,000
BLEY-GREY CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD CHARITABLE TRUSC$400
BLUEWATER DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$400
BLUEWATER REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIRC$200
OWEN SOUND & NORTH GREY PUBLIC LIBRARYC$107
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$39k · 6 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

C$39k
C$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
-10%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TN
    THR NATURE CONSERVANCY CANADA
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$33k · revenue +106%
  • ON
    ONTARIO NATURE
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$2k · revenue +96%
  • OS
    OWEN SOUND & NORTH GREY PUBLIC LIBRARY
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$810 · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • BP
    BRUCE PENINSULA BIRD OBSERVATORY
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue -11%
  • CK
    CAMP KAWARTHA
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue +11%
  • GS
    GREY SAUBLE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$150 · revenue -10%

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 Bluewater Education Foundation

The foundation is continuing to work with the bluewater district school board to preserve and enhance other education programs as is being done with outdoor education.

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2
Grey Bruce Children's Water Education Council

Operates an annual three-day children's education festival for grade 4 students about wise use conservation and protection of water and water resources.

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3
The Bruce Trail Conservancy

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…

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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
Owen Sound Field Naturalists

Conduct educational materials & meetings workshops and outdoor activities increasing the public's understanding of environmental issues. publish educational materials on the flora and fauna of grey-bruce counties. support and foster the…

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6
Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario

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.

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7
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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8
The North Bay-Mattawa Conservation Authority

Manages a program designed to further the conversation restoration development and management of natural resources other than gas oil coal and minerals in the north bay - mattawa area.

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9
The Bruce Peninsula Biosphere Association

Dark Skies - exterior residential municipal and commercial lighting; Bayside Astronomy; ecological monitoring; water quality including research and watershed restoration; environmental training and awareness; conservation and stewardship…

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10
Grey Sauble Conservation Authority

Conservation of lands for public use

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11
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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12
Bras D'or Lake Biosphere Region Association

The mission of the blbra is to improve balance in the bras d'or lake biosphere by encouraging community capacity building conservation efforts and sustainable development. activities include forest watch (forest monitoring program).…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bluewater Regional Science and Technology Fair and the most unlike its peers is Camp Kawartha Incorporated. 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

9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
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 budgetTHR NATURE CONSERVANCY CANADA — C$33,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO NATURE — C$2,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRUCE PENINSULA BIRD OBSERVATORY — C$2,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCAMP KAWARTHA — C$1,390 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEWATER REGIONAL SCIENCE FAIR — C$1,000 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetOWEN SOUND & NORTH GREY PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$810 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBLEY-GREY CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD CHARITABLE TRUS — C$800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUEWATER DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD' — C$800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREY SAUBLE CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$150 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Community Foundation …My Tribute Gift Found…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Community Foundation Grey BruceON10.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Grey Bruce · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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 9 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 support of schools and education.

Source object 763354321:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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