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St. Thomas, ON · Charitable organization

St Thomas Field Naturalist Club Inc.

Conduct an annual census for birds butterflies + amphibions provide maps + signage for heritage trees of elgin county take part in great canadian birdathon education of general public + club members on flora + fauna environmental issues + diversity well presentations to the club public photo field guides hold scheduled nature…

C$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$88k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipientC$3,300
THAMES VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONC$1,500
KETTLE CREEK CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$500
THAMES VALLEY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD - ENVIRONMENTAL...C$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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$16k · 6 repeat orgsC$15k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

C$16k
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+24%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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

  • TV
    THAMES VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$9k · revenue +62%
  • TV
    THAMES VALLEY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD - ENVIRONMENTAL...
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$2k · revenue +48%
  • BS
    BIRD STUDIES CANADA
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$2k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • UT
    UPPER THAMES CONSERVATION AUTHORITY
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k
  • SF
    SYDENHAM FIELD NATURALISTS
    one grant, 2021 · C$4k · revenue -92%
  • AC
    ANOTHER CHANCE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$1k · revenue -43%

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
Lower Thames Valley Conservation Authority

Water Management Land use Planning & Regulations Tree Planting Restoration and Stewardship Water Source Protection Conservation Lands Education and Community Relations.

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2
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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3
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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4
Central Lake Ontario Conservation Authority

Central lake ontario conservation authority's mission is to work towards the awareness understanding wise use and enhancement of our watershed resources for the benefit of the natural environment in partnership with our municipalities and…

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5
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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6
Kettle Creek Environmental Trust

To carry out programs whereby the natural resources of the watershed may be conserved restored developed and managed including programs such as tree planting wetland creation and land conservation. to advance education with respect to the…

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7
Land Conservancy for Kingston Frontenac Lennox and Addington

The Land Conservancy for Kingston Frontenac and Lennox & Addington (LC-KFL&A) owns 13 properties (one property newly acquired in 2022) and 2 conservation easements totalling just over 450 hectares of protected land providing habitat for 18…

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8
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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9
Habitat Acquisition Trust

1. Conservation of natural habitats by offering resources to landowners schools and the general public. 2. Preservation of species and wildlife protection through land acquisition protective covenants conservation and public education.

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10
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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11
The Halton Region Conservation Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to support and advance Conservation Halton's critical environmental projects that protect our natural assets connect people with nature and inspire change. Fund raised support programs such as tree planting…

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12
Essex Region Conservation Authority

The core mandate of conservation authorities is to undertake watershed-based programs (mandatory and non-mandatory) to protect people and property from flooding and other natural hazards and to conserve natural resources orr economic…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thames Valley Education Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shriners Hospitals for Children. 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
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 budgetTHAMES VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — C$9,250 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSYDENHAM FIELD NATURALISTS — C$4,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetTHAMES VALLEY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD - ENVIRONMENTAL... — C$2,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIRD STUDIES CANADA — C$1,665 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKettle Creek Conservation Authority — C$1,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANOTHER CHANCE WILDLIFE REHABILITATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetONTARIO NATURE — C$725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS' CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEARCE WILLIAMS CHRISTIAN CENTRE — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHAMES TALBOT LAND TRUST — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Elgin-St. Thomas — C$25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. THOMAS ELGIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25 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.

Elgin-St. Thomas Comm…Td Friends of the Env…Westminster College F…London Community Foun…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …Charities Aid Foundat…My Tribute Gift Found…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…
Elgin-St. Thomas Community FoundationON11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elgin-St. Thomas Community Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Westminster College Foundation · London Community Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 17 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 890823198:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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