Etobicoke, ON · Private foundation
The George Kostiuk Family Private Foundation
Educational and Cultural programs Environment and Wildlife Protection Social Services in Canada and abroad
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k8 grants · C$15k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$32k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Environmental Defence | C$22,000 |
| Canadian Ukrainian Foundation | C$10,000 |
| Second Harvest | C$5,000 |
| Oceana Canada | C$3,000 |
| West Parry Sound Health Centre | C$2,000 |
| Eva's Initiative for Homeless Youth | C$2,000 |
| Yonge Street Mission | C$1,000 |
| Covenant House | C$1,000 |
| Georgian Bay Biosphere | C$500 |
| Bruce Trail Conservancy | C$500 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.
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
- EDEnvironmental Defence8× · 2017–2024 · C$157k · revenue +153%
- OOceana6× · 2017–2024 · C$25k · revenue +68%
- ELEvas Lunitiative8× · 2017–2024 · C$23k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- UOUniversiny of Albertagraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue ×1,050
- OGOHTF Grand Tree Walkone grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue -78%
- HUHelp Us Helpone grant, 2021 · C$2k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
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…
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.
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…
* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…
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…
World fisheries trust created in 1995 is a canadian non-profit organization dedicated to the equitable and sustainable use and conservation of aquatic biodiversity. it acts locally and globally. the organization is not an activist group…
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…
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…
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…
Earthroots fund works to promote the protection of canada's wilderness wildlife and watersheds through research and public education
Provides funding to toronto and region conservation authority for various initiatives including the following: - environment stewardship - resource science - heritage education for black creek pioneer village - small scholarship amount for…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenbelt Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Alberta. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 24 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Environmental Defence ↗
- Who funds WELNepal ↗
- Who funds Oceana ↗
- Who funds Evas Lunitiative ↗
- Who funds Urvoine Aid ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest ↗
- Who funds Covenant House ↗
- Who funds Universiny of Alberta ↗
- Who funds Yonge Street Mission ↗
- Who funds Leacock Foundation ↗
- Who funds West Parry Sound Health Centre Foundation ↗
- Who funds OHTF Grand Tree Walk ↗
- Who funds Bruce Trail Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Food shave Totonto ↗
- Who funds Ecojustice ↗
- Who funds Georgian Bay Biosphere ↗
- Who funds Greenbelt Foundation ↗
- Who funds Princess Margaret Foundation ↗
- Who funds Toronto Ukrainian Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The McLean Foundation · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (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.