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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

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.

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k20 grants · C$109k
  • C$10k–50k22 grants · C$651k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$431k
C$25,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE POLLUTION PROBE FOUNDATIONC$100,000
ALBERTA ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCEC$90,000
BLOOD TRIBE LAND MANAGEMENTC$75,000
VOLTA RESEARCH INCC$62,500
GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ALBERTAC$53,840
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES EDMONTON SCHOOL DIVISIONC$50,000
ACORN CANADAC$47,500
Individual grant recipientC$45,689
NORTH GLENORA COMMUNITY LEAGUEC$45,567
CALGARY CLIMATE HUB ASSOCIATIONC$42,000
COMMUNITY ENERGY ASSOCIATIONC$35,500
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$33,000
CANADIAN PARKS + WILDERNESS SOCIETYC$33,000
MIISTAKIS INSTITUTE OF THE ROCKIESC$29,382
BIOSPHERE INSTITUTE OF BOW VALLEYC$26,920
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 — 89% of grant dollars (C$5.0M). The 11% that went abroad (C$615k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 11% of all-years giving (C$615k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$54k · 1 grant

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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.3M · 71 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

71 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

71
30

Total granted

C$4.3M
C$717k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+77%

Still filing today

89%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$647k 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

  • CP
    CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$338k · revenue +252%
  • TP
    THE PEMBINA INSTITUTE FOR APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT
    4× · 2019–2022 · C$220k · revenue +24%
  • TG
    THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$209k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • AE
    ALBERTA ENERGY EFFICIENCY ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2022 · C$105k
  • TG
    THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    one grant, 2019 · C$80k
  • GV
    GREEN VIOLIN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k

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
Water Matters Society of Alberta

Scholarly research and dissemination of information regarding water conservation and water policy.

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2
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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3
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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4
EcoSchools Canada

EcoSchools Canada delivers programs to advance environmental education and leadership in K-12 schools across Canada. Ongoing programs include a certification program for K-12 schools that promotes and recognizes environmental learning and…

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5
Southern Alberta Land Trust Society

Facilitating the protection of ecologically valuable private land in Southern Alberta in partnership with landowners through the use of conservation easements which are enabled through provincial legislation and further supported through…

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6
Endangered Ecosystems Alliance

Educating the public of the current state of the environment and conservation principles. information is provided to the general public through news media engagement social media postings public hikes and presentations in order to increase…

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7
Canadian Water Research Society

Identifying indicators to measure ecosystem health in international waterways public outreach and education

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8
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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9
Alberta Wilderness Association(Awa)

Public awareness of wilderness conservation issues in alberta through publications lectures hikes public outreach presentations government and industry liaison and landscape and wildlife assessments.

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10
Western Canada Wilderness Committee

The wilderness committee continued our work to preserve wilderness protect wildlife defend parks safeguard public resources and fight for a healthy climate. this past year we published and distributed our educational wild canada at-risk…

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11
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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12
Watersheds Canada
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Green Learning Canada Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St Paul's Anglican Church. 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

78 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. 78 of the 130 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/78
Grantees still filing
61/78
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 budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY — C$338,300 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PEMBINA INSTITUTE FOR APPROPRIATE DEVELOPMENT — C$220,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$209,410 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMIISTAKIS INSTITUTE FOR THE ROCKIES INC. — C$192,344 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — C$182,500 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetOldman Watershed Council — C$150,500 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetTHE POLLUTION PROBE FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetAlberta Riparian Habitat Management Society — C$140,935 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetWCS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$130,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBOW RIVER BASIN COUNCIL — C$112,500 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetBISSELL CENTRE — C$100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF ALBERTA — C$98,840 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIOSPHERE INSTITUTE OF THE BOW VALLEY — C$94,500 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetALBERTA TOMORROW FOUNDATION — C$87,468 over 4y, 16% of budgetGREEN CALGARY ASSOCIATION — C$80,093 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENERGY ASSOCIATION — C$75,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Global Youth Education Network — C$74,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetEVER ACTIVE SCHOOLS — C$70,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetLAKELAND AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH ASSOCIATION — C$63,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetAGRARIANS FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetGREEN LEARNING FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetLIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY — C$59,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$58,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSIDE EDUCATION SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$56,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetST. PAUL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$54,583 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetJASPER PLACE WELLNESS CENTRE — C$50,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetALL ONE SKY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES EDMONTON SCHOOL DIVISION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOLISH HERITAGE SOCIETY OF EDMONTON — C$50,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetIHUMAN YOUTH SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetLesser Slave Lake Watershed Council — C$49,125 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetALBERTA LAKE MANAGEMENT SOCIETY — C$47,807 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISH CREEK PP SOCIETY — C$47,035 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetZion Baptist Church of Kensington (Society) — C$46,170 over 2y, 20% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REGINA — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWEST ALBERTA SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE CENTRE — C$45,000 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetRECYCLING COUNCIL OF ALBERTA — C$42,395 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetCALGARY CLIMATE HUB ASSOCIATION — C$42,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetTREC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$40,390 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetTHE RESILIENCE INSTITUTE — C$34,500 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetLEFTOVERS FOUNDATION — C$34,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetALBERTA COUNCIL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION — C$32,072 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetDUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStudent Energy — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY — C$29,700 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetALUS CANADA — C$27,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMURIEL LAKE BASIN MANAGEMENT SOCIETY — C$25,500 over 2y, 83% of budgetDreamRider Productions Society — C$25,000 over 2y, 2.7% 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.

Alberta Conservation …The Edmonton Communit…Td Friends of the Env…The Calgary FoundationSuncor Energy Foundat…The Trottier Family F…The Chawkers foundati…Carthy FoundationNature Canada / Canad…Ivey FoundationThe Schad FoundationFondation Écho /Echo …
Alberta Conservation AssociationAB25× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Alberta Conservation Association · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · The Chawkers foundation · Carthy Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · Ivey Foundation · The Schad Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo 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 130 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under community resource.

Source object 135029825:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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