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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

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.

C$18M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
Regions reached
C$6.4M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k17 grants · C$72k
  • C$10k–50k21 grants · C$469k
  • C$50k–250k11 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$250k+7 grants · C$16M
C$22,500
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nature-Action Quebec inc.C$6,413,870
Conservation de la nature - QuebecC$4,556,075
Corridor AppalachienC$2,318,092
Ducks Unlimited CanadaC$1,057,313
Fondation de la faune du QuébecC$904,135
Centre de conservation de la nature Mont St-HilaireC$362,501
Manitoba Habitat ConservancyC$261,096
Individual grant recipientC$186,245
Southern Alberta Land Trust SocietyC$137,446
Birds CanadaC$125,000
Assiniboine Park ConservancyC$123,550
Fondation de l'université du Québec à MontréalC$100,000
Individual grant recipientC$93,800
Memorial University of NewfoundlandC$72,654
Fiducie de conservation des écosystèmes de LanaudièreC$71,646
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

Quebec
C$52M
Manitoba
C$26M
British Columbia
C$15M
Ontario
C$9.5M
Alberta
C$6.0M
Saskatchewan
C$2.6M
Nova Scotia
C$1.1M
New Brunswick
C$707k
Northwest Territories
C$705k
Prince Edward Island
C$521k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$136k

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$99M · 103 repeat orgsC$25M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

103 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

103
81

Total granted

C$99M
C$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+28%

Still filing today

88%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$322k 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

  • DU
    DUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$25M · revenue +37%
  • CD
    CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE - QUEBEC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$21M · revenue +89% · 93% of their budget
  • NQ
    Nature-Action Quebec inc.
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$13M · revenue +249% · 35% of their budget

Funded once

  • MO
    MINISTRY OF ENVIRONMENT AND CLIMATE CHANGE STRATEGY GOVERNM
    one grant, 2019 · C$8.9M
  • TS
    THE SKAGIT ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT COMMISSION
    one grant, 2022 · C$5.0M · revenue -92%
  • GO
    GOVERNMENT OF ALBERTA, ALBERTA ENVIRONMENT AND PARKS
    one grant, 2018 · C$2.8M

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
Arbres Et Nature - QuÉBec

protection de l'environnement en identifiant et administrant a perpétuité des terres du Québec

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2
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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3
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists

Nature Nova Scotia (also known as the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) exists to aid in the communication and cooperation among naturalists natural history societies and other nature-focused groups in Nova Scotia. We profile and…

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4
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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5
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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6
Wilderness International (Canada)

Wilderness international (canada) dedicates its daily work to legally secure the purchase of ecologically valuable and acutely threatened wilderness areas around the world in order to protect them in perpetuity. this land is used to teach…

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7
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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8
Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts/Alliance canadienne des organismes de conservation

The alliance of canadian land trusts (aclt) supports and empowers land trusts across canada to be vibrant unified and effective in advancing land conservation.

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9
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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10
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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11
Niagara Land Trust Foundation

Land review and securement science and stewardship work towards acquiring environmentally significant lands and agricultural lands for public interests and benefit while providing leadership in sustainable land stewardship of environmental…

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12
Brome Lake Land foundation Inc.

Preservation and management of ecological land the organization maintained ecological property acquired in previous years wetlands mapping and classification

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Conservation De La Nature - Quebec and the most unlike its peers is Boise Des Douze. 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

153 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. 153 of the 192 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.

20
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
150/153
Grantees still filing
116/153
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 budgetDUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA — C$24,505,906 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetCONSERVATION DE LA NATURE - QUEBEC — C$20,816,594 over 8y, 93% of budgetNature-Action Quebec inc. — C$13,469,193 over 8y, 35% of budgetCORRIDOR APPALACHIEN — C$10,274,400 over 7y, 71% of budgetTHE SKAGIT ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT COMMISSION — C$5,000,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetFONDAITON DE LA FAUNE DE QUÉBEC — C$3,209,564 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetTHE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$3,140,603 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA LAND TRUST SOCIETY — C$2,773,199 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetBC Parks Foundation — C$1,458,162 over 2y, 22% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST — C$1,120,500 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY — C$936,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetOntario Nature — C$703,888 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetOAK RIDGES MORAINE LAND TRUST — C$670,368 over 5y, 91% of budgetCONSERVATION MANITOU — C$652,395 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHUNDER BAY FIELD NATURALISTS CLUB — C$559,704 over 5y, 54% of budgetACTION CHELSEA FOR THE RESPECT OF THE ENVIRONMENT — C$523,727 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCentre de conservation de la nature Mont St-Hilaire — C$517,911 over 5y, 19% of budgetFondation de l'université du Québec à Montréal — C$500,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetThe Couchiching Conservancy — C$494,802 over 3y, 24% of budgetDENMAN CONSERVANCY ASSOCIATION — C$460,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetSALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY — C$436,500 over 1y, 56% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA (PEI) INC. — C$415,613 over 4y, 67% of budgetWILDLIFE HABITAT CANADA — C$375,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY LAND TRUST — C$371,015 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetThames Talbot Land Trust — C$356,169 over 6y, 13% of budgetBirds Canada — C$326,600 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetThe Nature Trust of New Brunswick Inc. — C$312,725 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetTHE LAND CONSERVANCY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$309,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetAssiniboine Park Conservancy — C$304,803 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCONSERVATION DES VALLONS DE LA SERPENTINE — C$285,549 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCY INC. — C$276,676 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetManitoba Habitat Conservancy — C$261,096 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetONTARIO LAND TRUST ALLIANCE — C$257,591 over 6y, 18% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE OF BC — C$249,560 over 4y, 46% of budgetOBV YAMASKA — C$233,751 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetLONG POINT BASIN LAND TRUST — C$216,694 over 3y, 20% of budgetWESTERN SKY LAND TRUST — C$206,763 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFiducie de conservation des écosystèmes de Lanaudière — C$205,258 over 7y, 11% of budgetHÉRITAGE PLEIN AIR DU NORD — C$201,738 over 4y, 58% of budgetGROUPE AMBIOTERRA — C$191,758 over 4y, 17% of budgetKIYOOKA LAND TRUST FOUNDATION — C$177,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$169,283 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHorizon-nature Bas-Saint-Laurent — C$155,000 over 6y, 43% of budgetHABITAT ACQUISITION TRUST — C$147,650 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetGALIANO CONSERVANCY ASSOCIATION — C$139,600 over 3y, 15% of budgetÉco-Corridors Laurentiens — C$138,000 over 4y, 14% 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 DUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION DE LA NATURE - QUEBEC ↗
  • Who funds Nature-Action Quebec inc. ↗
  • Who funds CORRIDOR APPALACHIEN ↗
  • Who funds THE SKAGIT ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT COMMISSION ↗
  • Who funds FONDAITON DE LA FAUNE DE QUÉBEC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ALBERTA LAND TRUST SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds BC Parks Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds RAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE MCCARTHY TETRAULT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Ontario Nature ↗
  • Who funds OAK RIDGES MORAINE LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION MANITOU ↗
  • Who funds THUNDER BAY FIELD NATURALISTS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds ACTION CHELSEA FOR THE RESPECT OF THE ENVIRONMENT ↗
  • Who funds Centre de conservation de la nature Mont St-Hilaire ↗
  • Who funds Fondation de l'université du Québec à Montréal ↗
  • Who funds The Couchiching Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds DENMAN CONSERVANCY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SALT SPRING ISLAND CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA (PEI) INC. ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE HABITAT CANADA ↗
  • Who funds GEORGIAN BAY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Thames Talbot Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds Birds Canada ↗
  • Who funds The Nature Trust of New Brunswick 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.

Fondation Écho /Echo …Td Friends of the Env…The Gosling FoundationOntario Land Trust Al…Nature Canada / Canad…World Wildlife Fund C…The Schad FoundationAlberta Conservation …The Sitka FoundationThe McLean FoundationThe Consecon Foundati…Ducks Unlimited Canad…
Fondation Écho /Echo FoundationQC29.8× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The Gosling Foundation · Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc. · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · The Schad Foundation · Alberta Conservation Association · The Sitka Foundation · The McLean Foundation · The Consecon Foundation · Ducks Unlimited Canada/Canards Illimites Canada

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 192 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 2024-05-31, 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 119246544:2024-05-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

Play a game based on Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Nature’s filings →