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Guelph, ON · Public foundation

The Gosling Foundation

The preservation and conservation of the environment and its species on canada.

C$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$50k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$761k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPHC$100,000
NATURE CANADAC$20,000
ALLAIANCE OF CANADA LAND TRUSTSC$10,000
SUSTAINABILITY NETWORKC$10,000
ESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCYC$10,000
NEWOUNDLAND & LABRADOR WILDLIFE FEDERATIONC$5,000
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$4.0M
New Brunswick
C$199k
British Columbia
C$187k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$25k
Nova Scotia
C$20k
Saskatchewan
C$20k
Manitoba
C$16k
Yukon
C$15k
Quebec
C$13k
Alberta
C$10k
Prince Edward Island
C$3k

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$3.8M · 24 repeat orgsC$774k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +142% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
63

Total granted

C$3.8M
C$759k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+142%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue +18%
  • NC
    NATURE CANADA
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$865k · revenue +193%
  • CC
    COUCHICHING CONSERVANCY
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$200k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • OL
    ONTARIO LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$100k · revenue +490%
  • NT
    NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$75k · revenue +452%
  • BC
    BIRDS CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$60k

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
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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2
Natureserve Canada

The preservation of the natural environment by undertaking supporting and supervising research made available to the public.

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3
Bird Ecology and Conservation Ontario

1. Research to advance the conservation of songbird species at risk in agricultural landscapes; and 2. Research to improve our understanding of the distribution abundance and productivity of songbird species at risk.

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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
Wildlands League

Promote sustainable resource use - Protecting Ontario's wildlands and natural areas - Research and provide input re parks management - Educate public on importance of parks - Scientifically analyze forest policy;confer with industry on…

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8
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Authority

The npca administers programs to further the conservation restoration and development of lands within its geographical juridiction

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9
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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10
Rideau Waterway Land Trust

We preserve and steward important natural lands and habitat in the Rideau Waterway corridor through donations and purchases. We focus on the preservation of important land that supports plants animals and clean water (Conservation Lands).…

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11
Niagara Peninsula Conservation Foundation

Ongoing programs the npca administers programs to further the conservation restoration and development of lands within its geographical jurisdiction

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12
Fraser Valley Conservancy

Protecting and preserving land and watercourses that have recognized local and regional ecological value. Promoting facilitating and engaging in land stewardship activities through public events and community outreach. Undertaking research…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ontario Nature Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Prince Edward Point Bird Observatory. 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

82 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. 82 of the 89 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
62/82
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$1,700,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNATURE CANADA — C$865,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetCOUCHICHING CONSERVANCY — C$200,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetSUSTAINABILTY NETWORK — C$157,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetBIRD STUDIES CANADA — C$152,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetNATURE TRUST OF NEWBRUNSWICK — C$135,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetONTARIO LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — C$100,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA TORONTO — C$94,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY — C$75,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetONTARIO FARMLAND TRUST — C$75,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetNATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCANADIAN PARK AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY — C$55,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetONTARIO NATURE — C$55,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFEDERATION OF NOVA SCOTIA NATURALIST — C$45,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetECOJUSTICE — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNATUREKIDS CONSERVANCY — C$27,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetGUELPH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF GUELPH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRARE CHARITABLE RESEARCH RESERVE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOTTAWA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$23,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANITOULIN STREAMS — C$23,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCY — C$21,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENT DEFENCE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATURE NEWFOUNDLAND — C$20,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetONTARIO PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP — C$20,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetNATURE SASKATCHEWAN — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetOTTAWA RIVERKEEPERS — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGUELPH HIKING TRAIL CLUB — C$15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGRAND RIVER CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYUKON CONSERVATION SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBRUCE PENINSULA BIRD OBSERVATORY — C$15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetINISTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMICS — C$12,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHAMES TALBOT LAND TRUST — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN THUMBS — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATURE NEW BRUSWICK — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTORONTO BOTANICAL GARDEN — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLAIANCE OF CANADA LAND TRUSTS — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNATURE QUEBEC — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEARTH RANGERS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREEN TEAMS CANADA — C$10,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCONSERVATION COUNCIL OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetEDMONTON AND AREA LAND TRUST — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetJANE FINCH CENTRE — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLAND CONSERVANCY KFLA — C$7,500 over 1y, 7.9% 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.

Nature Canada / Canad…Fondation Écho /Echo …Td Friends of the Env…The Nature Conservanc…The McLean FoundationThe Schad FoundationOntario Land Trust Al…Makeway FoundationThe Sitka FoundationThe Trottier Family F…World Wildlife Fund C…The Consecon Foundati…
Nature Canada / Canada NatureON27.4× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nature Canada / Canada Nature · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Nature · The McLean Foundation · The Schad Foundation · Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc. · Makeway Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · The Consecon 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 89 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 2024-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under teaching institutions.

Source object 119074391:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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