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Vancouver, BC · Charitable organization

The David Suzuki Foundation

The David Suzuki Foundation works through science and education to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life now and for the future.

C$19k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$19k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$18,750
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Natural Assets Initiative SocietyC$18,750
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 — 73% of grant dollars (C$444k). The 27% that went abroad (C$162k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 27% of all-years giving (C$162k)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$87k · 2 grants

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$190k · 5 repeat orgsC$416k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
27

Total granted

C$190k
C$416k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+41%

Still filing today

80%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • MC
    MAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$42k · revenue +5%
  • FE
    FONDATION EVENTKO POUR LE TALENT EMERGENT
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$32k · revenue +5%
  • FF
    Foundation for Environmental Stewardship
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$30k · revenue +235%

Funded once

  • CU
    Columbia University in City of New York
    one grant, 2017 · C$80k
  • E
    EQUITERREgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$52k · revenue +53%
  • PC
    Pacific Centre For Environmental Law & Litigation Society
    one grant, 2019 · C$30k · revenue -58%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada

A) Terrestrial Parks and Protected Areas Program - To establish new and expanded terrestrial protected areas while protecting nature in our existing parks; - To protect wilderness ecosystems across Canada; and - To educate Canadians about…

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5
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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6
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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7
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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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
L'Institut international de Montréal pour l'environnement / the Montreal international institute for the environment
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10
The David Suzuki Foundation

The David Suzuki Foundation works through science and education to protect the diversity of nature and our quality of life now and for the future.

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11
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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12
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conseil régional de l'environnement de Montréal and the most unlike its peers is Acces Transports Viables-Reg Util.Transp.Col. Alt.Metr.. 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

30 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. 30 of the 32 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
26/30
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 budgetEQUITERRE — C$51,578 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$42,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFONDATION EVENTKO POUR LE TALENT EMERGENT — C$32,302 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPacific Centre For Environmental Law & Litigation Society — C$30,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetFoundation for Environmental Stewardship — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Circle on Philanthropy & Aboriginal Peoples in Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDucks Unlimited Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFederation of Ontario Naturalists — C$21,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEnvironmental Defence Canada Inc — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONSEIL REGIONALE DE L'ENVIRONNEMENT DE LA MONTEREGIE — C$20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGUELPH NEIGHBOURHOOD SUPPORT COALITION — C$18,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$10,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN COUNCIL FOR INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNature Canada — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSKEENAWILD CONSERVATION TRUST — C$7,209 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetConseil Régional de L'Environnement de Montréal — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetACCES TRANSPORTS VIABLES — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget3858278 CANADA FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetISLAMIC FAMILY AND SOCIAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION (IFSSA) — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club of British Columbia Foundation — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColumbia Institute — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRivershed Society of BC — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetReconciliation Canada - A New Way Forward Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFirst Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBritish Columbia Guide Dog Services — C$250 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.

Makeway FoundationThe Catherine Donnell…The J W McConnell Fam…Vancity Community Fou…The Trottier Family F…North Family Foundati…The Victoria Foundati…The Sitka FoundationFondation Écho /Echo …Td Friends of the Env…Ottawa Community Foun…The McLean Foundation
Makeway FoundationBC14.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Makeway Foundation · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Vancity Community Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · North Family Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · The McLean 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 32 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 2024-08-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under public amenities.

Source object 127756716:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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