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Toronto, ON · Private foundation

The Salamander Foundation

The foundation awards financial grants to qualified donees in the areas of arts and culture and the environment.

C$11M
Granted FY2018
19
Grants FY2018
3
Regions reached
C$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$4k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$900k
  • C$250k+8 grants · C$9.7M
C$200,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$151k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Royal Ontario MuseumC$1,750,000
Toronto FoundationC$1,610,000
United Way TorontoC$1,565,000
University of TorontoC$1,500,000
Library and Archives CanadaC$1,000,000
University of Western ONC$1,000,000
London Community FoundationC$750,000
Neptis FoundationC$500,000
The Royal ConservatoryC$200,000
EvergreenC$200,000
Environmental DefenceC$100,000
WWFC$100,000
Tiges Canada InitiativesC$100,000
CPAWSC$50,000
Wildlife Conservation SocietyC$50,000
02Your 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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.2M · 9 repeat orgsC$8.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +127% since the first grant, against +90% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

C$3.2M
C$418k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+127%
+90%

Still filing today

100%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
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 Toronto
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$1.6M · revenue +43%
  • LA
    Library and Archives Canada
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$1.0M · revenue +4% · 64% of their budget
  • W
    WWF
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$165k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CM
    Canadian Museum of History
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k
  • CM
    Canadian Museum of Nature
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k
  • DU
    Ducks Unlimited Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$45k · revenue +37%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your 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
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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2
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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3
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* 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…

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4
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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5
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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6
L'Institut international de Montréal pour l'environnement / the Montreal international institute for the environment
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7
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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8
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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9
Canadian Wildlife Federation/FÉDÉRation Canadienne De La Faune

Cwf’s mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of canada’s wildlife and habitat for the use and enjoyment of all through research direct programming education and advocacy. cwf is recognized for our leadership in bringing…

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10
Td Friends of the Environment Foundation

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…

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11
Watersheds Canada
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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nature United/ Nature Unie and the most unlike its peers is Nunavut Arctic College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 34 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
31/32
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 budgetRoyal Ontario Museum — C$1,750,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetToronto Foundation — C$1,610,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$1,575,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Toronto — C$1,565,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLibrary and Archives Canada — C$1,025,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetUniversity of Western ON — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLondon Community Foundation — C$750,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetNeptis Foundation — C$500,000 over 1y, 69% of budgetEvergreen — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Royal Conservatory — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWWF — C$165,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTiges Canada Initiatives — C$150,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEnvironmental Defence — C$120,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetOttawa Riverkeeper — C$85,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — C$65,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCPAWS — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGreenbelt Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetDucks Unlimited Canada — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNature Conservancy of Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTNC Canada — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEcojustice — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetInternational Institute for Sustainable Development — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSuccession — C$22,000 over 1y, 86% of budgetDalhousie University — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEquiterre — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetManitoulin Streams Improvement — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetNunavut Research Institute — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNature Canada — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Pembina Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPhilanthropic Foundations Canada — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Environment Grantmakers Network — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

Fondation Écho /Echo …The McLean FoundationMakeway FoundationThe George Cedric Met…The Sitka FoundationThe Trottier Family F…The J W McConnell Fam…Ivey FoundationThe Chawkers foundati…Td Friends of the Env…Ottawa Community Foun…The Consecon Foundati…
Fondation Écho /Echo FoundationQC13.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Makeway Foundation · The George Cedric Metcalf Charitable Foundation · The Sitka Foundation · The Trottier Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Trottier · The J W McConnell Family Foundation/La Fondation de la Famille J W McConnell · Ivey Foundation · The Chawkers foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · 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 34 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 2018-10-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2018. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2019) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 119118537:2018-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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