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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

Park People Projects Canada/Amis Des Parcs Projets Canada

Park People works to advance city parks as essential spaces to connect people to each other and the rest of nature.

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$370k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$32k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$205k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$395k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$370k
C$20,000
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
880 CitiesC$370,320
HIGH PARK INITIATIVESC$90,000
STANLEY PARK ECOLOGY SOCIETYC$90,000
LES AMIS DE LA MONTAGNE (MONT-ROYAL) INCC$90,000
Meewasin Valley AuthorityC$75,000
Ecology Action CentreC$50,000
Individual grant recipientC$40,000
Dufferin grove Organic Farmers' MarketC$36,100
Free the Fern Stewardship SocietyC$31,000
Edmonton River Valley Conservation CoalitionC$27,000
Everett Crowley Park CommitteeC$26,000
Individual grant recipientC$25,229
Toronto Botanical GardenC$20,000
Sustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space (STEPS)C$7,500
urbaNature EducationC$2,700
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 70% of grant dollars (C$1.6M). The 30% that went abroad (C$659k) is mapped below.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$723k
Quebec
C$290k
British Columbia
C$204k
Saskatchewan
C$140k
Nova Scotia
C$66k
Alberta
C$30k
Manitoba
C$15k
New Brunswick
C$2k

Beyond home — 30% of all-years giving (C$659k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 46 repeat orgsC$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

46 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
78

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$423k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+34%

Still filing today

91%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$633k 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

  • HP
    HIGH PARK INITIATIVES
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$245k · revenue +84%
  • SP
    Stanley Park Ecology Society
    3× · 2019–2023 · C$78k · revenue +46%
  • JC
    Jane/Finch Community and Family Centre
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$41k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • SP
    STANLEY PARK ECOLOGY SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$70k
  • M
    MABELLEartsgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$39k · revenue +438%
  • UO
    University of Guelph
    one grant, 2018 · C$38k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Toronto Green Community Inc.

Eglinton park community garden: engage people of all ages from diverse communities in ecological gardening food security and placekeeping initiatives. rainscapeto: offers earth-friendly landscaping solutions that cultivates permeable…

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2
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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3
Eya Environmental Youth Alliance Society

EYA supports equity-denied youth to become environmental stewards. We provide free land-based education and paid employment training in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside engaging youth to develop skills and confidence in environmental…

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4
Ecology North

Ecology North Offers environmental education and awareness in the following five areas: local food production climate change mitigation and adaptation water stewardship nature appreciation and waste reduction. Some of the public…

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5
Evergreen

'Evergreen collaborates across sectors community leaders and placemakers to change how we build our cities through better public places. We work with communities to test ideas on the ground and create great public spaces for people and…

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6
The Riverwood Conservancy

The Riverwood Conservancy is a charity that provides programs and direction for Riverwood - the 150 acre urban nature preserve situated on the shores of the Credit RIver in Mississauga. Working together with like-minded groups and…

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7
No.9 Contemporary Art & the Environment

Imagining my sustainable city is an educational outreach program focused on empowering grade 7/8 students on how to build sustainable communities. this program is delivered by no. 9’s architects/educators and takes on the structure of a 4…

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8
Arts Starts Neighbourhood Cultural Centre

Art starts inspires and cultivate social change by bringing professional artist and toronto residents together to create community building art projects in all artistic diciplines. art starts provides responsive and relevant creative…

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9
Ottawa Biosphere Eco-City

Biodersity and sustainability programming

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10
Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services

A multicultural community health centre works to promote health and well-being and improve access to services for immigrants and refugees in toronto by addressing health social economic and environmental issues. primary health care…

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Park People Projects Canada/Amis Des Parcs Projets Canada

Park People works to advance city parks as essential spaces to connect people to each other and the rest of nature. Park People connects people and communities with the tools they need to create great parks for everyone. We’re the only…

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12
Waskasoo Environmental Education Society

The Nature Centre and Fort offer an extensive program of natural and human history early childhood and environmental education programs school programs preschool programs Wild Child youth educations programs workshops and more. Imagination…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia and the most unlike its peers is Springboard Performance Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

124 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. 124 of the 138 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)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
120/124
Grantees still filing
90/124
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHIGH PARK INITIATIVES — C$245,000 over 5y, 7.6% of budgetLES AMIS DE LA MONTAGNE (MONT-ROYAL) INC — C$232,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetMeewasin Valley Authority — C$137,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSTANLEY PARK ECOLOGY SOCIETY — C$90,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStanley Park Ecology Society — C$78,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetEcology Action Centre — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJane/Finch Community and Family Centre — C$40,650 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMABELLEarts — C$39,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetNative Women's Resource Centre — C$39,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUniversity of Guelph — C$38,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Architectural Conservancy of Ontario Inc. — C$36,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetEarth Day Canada — C$35,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGreenest City Environmental Organization — C$32,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetThe Bentway Conservancy — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFoodshare Toronto — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAlexandra Park Neighbourhood Learning Centre — C$25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetToronto Botanical Garden — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMalvern Family Resource Centre — C$14,569 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSustainable Thinking and Expression on Public Space (STEPS) — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPowell Street Festival Society — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budget1 Just City Inc. — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWonder'neath Art Society — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetJOUJOUTHÉQUE BASSE-VILLE — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMaison des jeunes la Marginale — C$6,400 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetStill Moon Arts Society — C$6,250 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLittle Mountain Neighbourhood House Society — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJoujouthéque Basse-Ville — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMITE DE VIE DE QUARTIER DUFF-COURT (COVIQ) — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNorthwood Neighbourhood Services — C$5,400 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSPENCE NEIGHBOURHOOD ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRANCHLANDS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetÉco de la Pointe-aux-Prairies — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDeta Family Resource Centre — C$4,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgeturbaNature Education — C$4,700 over 2y, 25% of budgetRichmond Food Security Society — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Fish Creek Provincial Park Society — C$4,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetToronto Centre for Community Learning and Development — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetStrathcona Gardeners Society — C$4,000 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetCALGARY FIELD NATURALISTS' SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetCanadian South Asian Growth and Support Services — C$3,950 over 1y, 15% of budgetThe Arab Community Centre of Toronto — C$3,550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetStreet to Trail — C$3,250 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetCHARLIE'S FIREWHEELS YOUTH EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$3,150 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetStanley Park Ecology Society — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOdyssey Theatre — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDowntown Eastside Women's Centre Association — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETE RESSOURCES-LOISIRS DE POINTE-AUX-TREMBLES INC — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarpole Oakridge Family Place — C$3,000 over 2y, 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.

Td Friends of the Env…Kids Up Front Foundat…Chum Charitable Found…Right To FoodMazon CanadaThe Peter Gilgan Foun…The George Cedric Met…Toronto FoundationThe Chawkers foundati…Second Harvest Canada…Toronto Parks and Tre…Nature Canada / Canad…
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON20.2× affinity43 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 · Kids Up Front Foundation (Toronto) · Chum Charitable Foundation · Right To Food · Mazon Canada · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · Toronto Foundation · The Chawkers foundation · Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canada · Toronto Parks and Trees Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature

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 138 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 2024-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under public amenities.

Source object 846449437:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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