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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

Td Friends of the Environment Foundation

TD FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION (tdfef) is a national charity that funds environmental projects across canada.

C$4.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
397
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
Regions reached
C$221k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 397 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k257 grants · C$1.5M
  • C$10k–50k131 grants · C$2.1M
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$692k
C$7,912
Median grant
11
Regions reached
C$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$220,647
BIRDS CANADAC$86,300
ECOSOURCE MISSISSAUGAC$60,377
SCIENTISTS IN SCHOOLC$59,896
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$55,415
EDMONTON AND AREA LAND TRUSTC$55,380
TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARDC$53,362
UPPER THAMES RIVER CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$50,421
WATERSHEDS CANADAC$50,240
HURON STEWARDSHIP COUNCILC$45,745
NOTTAWASAGA VALLEY CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$41,650
GREEN TEAMS OF CANADAC$35,223
ECOSCHOOLS CANADAC$34,400
FRIENDS OF THE ROUGE WATERSHED INC.C$33,810
FEDERATION OF ONTARIO NATURALISTSC$32,760
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$21M
British Columbia
C$5.4M
Alberta
C$4.0M
Quebec
C$2.0M
Manitoba
C$1.0M
Saskatchewan
C$728k
Nova Scotia
C$619k
New Brunswick
C$486k
Prince Edward Island
C$283k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$258k
Northwest Territories
C$82k
Yukon
C$8k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$30M · 649 repeat orgsC$6.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

649 repeat relationships — 282 still active in FY2024, 367 since wound down; 114 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

649
709

Total granted

C$30M
C$5.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+24%

Still filing today

86%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$928k 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

  • TT
    THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$943k · revenue +51%
  • BS
    BIRD STUDIES CANADA/ETUDES D'OISEAUX CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$529k · revenue +129%
  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$493k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • TB
    TD BANK GROUP
    one grant, 2020 · C$96k
  • CO
    Corporation of The City of Calgary
    one grant, 2017 · C$79k
  • AL
    ANIMA LEADERSHIP INC
    one grant, 2020 · C$51k

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
Partners for the Saskatchewan River Basin

Environmental education programs. development and delivery of environmental stewardship programs. provision of supplies and information to school children to asses local water conditions and identify opportunities for individual…

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2
One School One Farm Shelterbelt Project

The planting of shelterbelts eco-buffers and pollinator strips with classrooms and land partners. Providing education on subjects of biodiversity and ecological literacy to students specifically by participating in and receiving training…

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3
Alberta Council for Environmental Education

Work collaboratively to advance environmental education in Alberta. Move environmental education from the margins to mainstream by harnessing youth voice to guide decision makers increasing students environmental and climate literacy and…

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4
Environmental Education Ontario Inc

The organization supports the implementation of a strategic plan for environmental and sustainability education in Ontario that will ensure future generations inherit a healthy province.

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5
Gulf Islands Centre for Ecological Learning

Ecologically-based summer programs for children; prorgams take place on british columbia's gulf islands.

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6
Riverwatch Institute of Alberta

Environmental field studies for secondary science students: -advance education by organizing and deliverying programs projects science curriculum supplements field trips and other tours that assist teachers students and others in the study…

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7
Td Friends of the Environment Foundation

Td friends of the environment foundation (tdfef) is a national charity that funds environmental projects across canada. with the support from our donors td fef has provided more than $117 million to over 29 000 environmental projects and…

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8
Aquatic Biosphere Society of Canada

Education programming-schools public events conservation & environmental public awareness campaigns conservation research projects-in coordination with post-secondaries institutions and partner conservation associations the programs are…

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9
West Coast Environmental Education Society

WCEES promotes knowledge,appreciation and respect for the natural environment throught it's outdoor nature program, science & nature and its school garden program, seed to plate

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10
Sierra Club of British Columbia Foundation

Forest Conservation Environmental education awareness programs in BC schools Climate change awareness Community engagement Mother tree local leaders program Restoring our relationships with nature Building capacity for indigenous-led…

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11
The Canadian Council On Ecological Areas - Le Conseil Canadien Des Aires ÉCologiques

The canadian council on ecological areas (ccea) is a national leader in providing evidence-based guidance in the establishment and management of a comprehensive network of ecological areas to contribute to the conservation and restoration…

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12
Earthroots Fund

Earthroots fund works to promote the protection of canada's wilderness wildlife and watersheds through research and public education

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Canadian Ecology Centre Educational Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Burman University. 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

1119 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. 1119 of the 1,472 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.

60
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
328
Early backer (in before they grew)
1090/1119
Grantees still filing
819/1119
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$943,464 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetScientists In School — C$589,828 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetBIRD STUDIES CANADA/ETUDES D'OISEAUX CANADA — C$529,386 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$493,202 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDreamRider Productions Society — C$437,049 over 7y, 22% of budgetECOSOURCE — C$400,285 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetFEDERATION OF ONTARIO NATURALISTS — C$390,930 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetTREC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$389,489 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetECOSCHOOLS CANADA — C$361,223 over 6y, 15% of budgetUpper Thames River Conservation Authority — C$349,992 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetTORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$324,596 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetECOLOGOS ENVIRONEMNTAL ORGANIZATION — C$307,659 over 6y, 55% of budgetCAROLINIAN CANADA COALITION — C$269,250 over 7y, 13% of budgetNOTTAWASAGA VALLEY CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$257,530 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetLearning For A Sustainable Future/L'education Au Service De — C$254,050 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetFoodshare Toronto — C$251,716 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetPlanet In Focus Foundation — C$250,500 over 8y, 91% of budgetThe Living City Foundation — C$234,581 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetEDMONTON AND AREA LAND TRUST — C$217,041 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetCredit Valley Conservation Foundation — C$206,461 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetTHAMES VALLEY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$183,137 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStanley Park Ecology Society — C$182,074 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ROUGE WATERSHED INC. — C$176,870 over 8y, 15% of budgetFederation Of Alberta Naturalists — C$175,859 over 8y, 13% of budgetYoung Women's Christian Association — C$175,690 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTree Canada/Arbres Canada — C$171,904 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEcospark Environmental Organization — C$170,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetFaith & The Common Good — C$168,265 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetHalton District School Board — C$166,057 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG NATURALISTS' CLUB OF BC SOCIETY — C$164,456 over 8y, 15% of budgetThe Calgary Board Of Education — C$161,998 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS AND HUNTERS — C$161,916 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetREFOREST LONDON — C$160,156 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Canada-Canards Illimites Canada — C$159,050 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetThe Halton Region Conservation Foundation — C$154,313 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetA ROCHA CANADA — C$153,642 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$152,565 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWATERSHEDS CANADA — C$149,255 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetWINTERGREEN STUDIOS — C$147,606 over 8y, 15% of budgetWaterloo Education Foundation Inc. — C$145,052 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetMETRO VANCOUVER REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION — C$144,280 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetPeel District School Board — C$143,979 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAcer Association For Canadian Educational Resources — C$141,208 over 7y, 31% of budgetThe Fort Whyte Foundation Inc. — C$139,975 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetNeighbour To Neighbour Centre (Hamilton) — C$139,893 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFONDATION ÉCOLOGIQUE DU GRAND MONTRÉAL — C$136,250 over 7y, 100% of budgetYORK CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD — C$135,674 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREACH CENTRE — C$135,250 over 8y, 1.5% 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 THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY ↗
  • Who funds Scientists In School ↗
  • Who funds BIRD STUDIES CANADA/ETUDES D'OISEAUX CANADA ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds DreamRider Productions Society ↗
  • Who funds ECOSOURCE ↗
  • Who funds FEDERATION OF ONTARIO NATURALISTS ↗
  • Who funds TREC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ECOSCHOOLS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Upper Thames River Conservation Authority ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ↗
  • Who funds ECOLOGOS ENVIRONEMNTAL ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds CAROLINIAN CANADA COALITION ↗
  • Who funds NOTTAWASAGA VALLEY CONSERVATION AUTHORITY ↗
  • Who funds Learning For A Sustainable Future/L'education Au Service De ↗
  • Who funds Foodshare Toronto ↗
  • Who funds Planet In Focus Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Living City Foundation ↗
  • Who funds EDMONTON AND AREA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Credit Valley Conservation Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THAMES VALLEY DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD ↗
  • Who funds Stanley Park Ecology Society ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROUGE WATERSHED INC. ↗
  • Who funds Federation Of Alberta Naturalists ↗
  • Who funds Young Women's Christian Association ↗
  • Who funds Tree Canada/Arbres Canada ↗
  • Who funds Ecospark Environmental Organization ↗
  • Who funds Faith & The Common Good ↗
  • Who funds Halton District School Board ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG NATURALISTS' CLUB OF BC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The Calgary Board Of Education ↗
  • Who funds THE ONTARIO FEDERATION OF ANGLERS AND HUNTERS ↗
  • Who funds REFOREST LONDON ↗
  • Who funds Ducks Unlimited Canada-Canards Illimites Canada ↗
  • Who funds The Halton Region Conservation Foundation ↗
  • Who funds A ROCHA CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY SOUTHERN ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds WATERSHEDS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds WINTERGREEN STUDIOS ↗
  • Who funds Waterloo Education Foundation Inc. ↗

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.

Indigo Love of Readin…Nature Canada / Canad…World Wildlife Fund C…The Gosling FoundationStratford Shakespeare…Music Education Chari…The Nature Conservanc…The Jane Goodall Inst…Greenbelt FoundationOntario Wildlife Foun…Cwb Welding FoundationThe Art Starts in Sch…
Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la LectureON37.8× affinity135 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · The Gosling Foundation · Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada · Music Education Charity of Canada · The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Nature · The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation / L'Institut Jane Goodall Pour la Recherche L'Education Et la Conservation de la Faune · Greenbelt Foundation · Ontario Wildlife Foundation · Cwb Welding Foundation · The Art Starts in Schools Society

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 1472 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 2024-10-31, 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 133702845:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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