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Victoria, BC · Charitable organization

Salal Foundation

We provide information regarding the protection of the environment by encouraging best practices in the transport storage and use of toxic substances.

C$728k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$215k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$24k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$118k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$586k
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Stand Environmental SocietyC$214,559
Individual grant recipientC$194,777
Stand Environmental SocietyC$126,716
Nature QuebecC$50,000
Sierra Club Canada FoundationC$43,464
Canadian Association of Physicians for the EnvironmentC$25,000
Institute for Research on Public PolicyC$20,000
Leadnow SocietyC$20,000
Canadian Centre for Policy AlternativesC$10,000
Fair Mining CollaborativeC$5,600
The Natural Step (Canada) Inc.C$5,000
FCJ Refugee CentreC$5,000
Carleton UniversityC$5,000
Environmental Defence Canada Inc.C$3,000
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 — 46% of grant dollars (C$492k). The 54% that went abroad (C$576k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 54% of all-years giving (C$576k)

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

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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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$373k · 7 repeat orgsC$695k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

C$373k
C$84k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$612k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24
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

  • DF
    DI Foundation
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$149k · revenue +719% · 83% of their budget
  • SC
    Sierra Club Canada Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$87k · revenue +9%
  • ED
    Environmental Defence Canada Inc.
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$15k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TM
    Toronto Metropolitan University
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +1%
  • CD
    Catherine Donnelly Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$23k · revenue +52%
  • MF
    McLean Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k · revenue -61465%

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
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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2
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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3
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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4
Capture Carbon Canada Foundation
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5
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…

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6
Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement

All of environment funders canada's programs are designed to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the canadian environment and to support a vibrant network of philanthropic and other funders working individually…

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7
The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation

Alberta ecotrust foundation implements programs and projects to protect the environment which includes protecting the quality of air and water wildlife habitat parks and suburban land use. in addition to its own projects and in pursuit of…

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8
Clean Prosperity Foundation

Make donations to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) in the income tax act (canada) carbon removal canada project to conduct research and educate the public and policymakers on the potential benefits and costs of expanding…

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9
The Fraser Institute

Carry out research on the following topics; Fiscal and Economic Policy Environmental Policy Energy & Natural Resources Policy Health Studies Economic Freedom publish books monographs & digital monographs on each topics. Hold conferences…

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10
The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour La Conservation De La Nature

As Canada’s largest environmental charity the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has worked with partners to conserve natural landscapes since 1962. Together we deliver solutions to address the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate…

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11
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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12
The Pollution Probe Foundation

Transportation: We develop tools to support rail decarbonization & monitor decarbonization efforts & best practices. We support the installation of new EV charging stations through a funding program which provides up to 50% of purchase &…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Climate Institute L'institut climatique du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Fcj Refugee Centre. 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

17 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. 17 of the 21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDI Foundation — C$148,973 over 2y, 83% of budgetSierra Club Canada Foundation — C$86,864 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetNature Quebec — C$81,889 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCanadian Association of Physicians for the Environment — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetToronto Metropolitan University — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatherine Donnelly Foundation — C$22,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCanadian Centre for Policy Alternatives — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEnvironmental Defence Canada Inc. — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCarleton University — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Natural Step (Canada) Inc. — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFair Mining Collaborative — C$5,600 over 1y, 100% of budgetMaple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Climate Institute — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFCJ Refugee Centre — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProsper Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHamber Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Trottier Family F…Fondation Écho /Echo …The J W McConnell Fam…Toronto FoundationAbundance CanadaAqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationUnited Way East Ontar…Charities Aid Foundat…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…
The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale TrottierQC9.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Toronto Foundation · Abundance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 21 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 898470513:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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