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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

T-Gear Foundation

To apply income and capital exclusively for charitable purposes - to raise funds that will benefit charitable organizations that further the education of religion - to raise funds that will benefit charitable organizations in works related to the environment

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$135k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$125k
  • C$50k–250k12 grants · C$900k
C$50,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$135,000
DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTREC$120,000
UNION GOSPEL MISSIONC$100,000
THE DENA KAYEH INSTITUTEC$100,000
PEMBINA FOUNDATIONC$70,000
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (NORTHERN ALBERTA)C$65,000
INDSPIREC$60,000
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (YUKON)C$50,000
PARKDALE FOOD CENTREC$50,000
OTTAWA RIVERKEEPERC$50,000
EARTH RANGERSC$50,000
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (BC)C$50,000
BIRKEN FOREST BUDDHIST MONASTERYC$40,000
THE OTTAWA MISSIONC$30,000
ISLAND NATURE TRUSTC$30,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.4M · 19 repeat orgsC$135k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
1

Total granted

C$7.4M
C$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
+167%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$115k 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

  • CP
    CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +20%
  • U
    UGM
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$810k · revenue +87%
  • GV
    GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$710k · revenue +235%

Funded once

  • WL
    Wild Life Conservation Societygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k · revenue +167%

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
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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2
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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3
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

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4
Freshwater Conservation Canada

Freshwater conservation canada is committed to conserving protecting and restoring canada's freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations. programs and projects are delivered by our professional…

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5
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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6
Canadian Wildlife Federation/FÉDÉRation Canadienne De La Faune

Cwf’s mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of canada’s wildlife and habitat for the use and enjoyment of all through research direct programming education and advocacy. cwf is recognized for our leadership in bringing…

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7
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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8
Georgia Strait Alliance

Public Engagement – increasing the understanding of the importance of the health of Georgia Strait as a regional ecosystem and providing individuals and communities with the tools to take local and regional action to improve the health of…

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9
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…

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10
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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11
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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12
Federation of British Columbia Naturalists

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)…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Downtown Eastside Women's Centre Association. 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

21 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
20/21
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 budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (BC) — C$1,121,687 over 7y, 18% of budgetUGM — C$810,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$709,915 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$695,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetTHE DENA KAYEH INSTITUTE — C$550,877 over 6y, 16% of budgetECOJUSTICE — C$466,574 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetPEMBINA FOUNDATION — C$457,975 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetBIRD STUDIES CANADA — C$375,974 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetPARKDALE FOOD CENTRE — C$309,650 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetEARTH RANGERS — C$300,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetOTTAWA RIVERKEEPER — C$265,235 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$255,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$240,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBIRKEN FOREST BUDDHIST MONASTERY — C$218,775 over 6y, 21% of budgetICFC — C$186,352 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OTTAWA MISSION — C$130,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (NORTHERN ALBERTA) — C$115,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetISLAND NATURE TRUST — C$115,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBC CONSERVATION FDN N SPOTTED OWL BREEDING PROGRAM — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWild Life Conservation Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (BC) ↗
  • Who funds UGM ↗
  • Who funds GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN EASTSIDE WOMEN'S CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds THE DENA KAYEH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds ECOJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds PEMBINA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BIRD STUDIES CANADA ↗
  • Who funds PARKDALE FOOD CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds EARTH RANGERS ↗
  • Who funds OTTAWA RIVERKEEPER ↗
  • Who funds NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds INDSPIRE ↗
  • Who funds BIRKEN FOREST BUDDHIST MONASTERY ↗
  • Who funds ICFC ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
  • Who funds THE OTTAWA MISSION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY (NORTHERN ALBERTA) ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND NATURE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds BC CONSERVATION FDN N SPOTTED OWL BREEDING PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Wild Life Conservation Society ↗

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.

Makeway FoundationThe Schad FoundationThe Sitka FoundationWorld Wildlife Fund C…Fondation Écho /Echo …The McLean FoundationThe Calgary FoundationBenefAction FoundationVancity Community Fou…The Consecon Foundati…Td Friends of the Env…The Gosling Foundation
Makeway FoundationBC10.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · The Schad Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · The Consecon Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The Gosling Foundation

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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 801763566:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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