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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

Toronto Ornithological Club

Citizen-science research performed by club members as volunteers: christmas bird count raptor count whimbrel count educational bird walks open to the public led by club volunteers.

C$12k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$3,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$24k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TORONTO WILDLIFE CENTRE (TWC)C$5,984
FLAPC$3,000
TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITYC$2,000
OFO (ONTARIO FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS)C$1,000
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$49k · 7 repeat orgsC$21k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

C$49k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+83%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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

  • FL
    FATAL LIGHT AWARENESS PROGRAM (FLAP) CANADA
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$19k · revenue +24%
  • HP
    HIGH PARK INITIATIVES (HIGH PARK NATURE CENTRE)
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$7k · revenue +84%
  • BS
    Bird Studies Canada
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$6k · revenue +129%

Funded once

  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +83%
  • KS
    KELLY SUE O'CONNOR AND MIKE GATTI
    one grant, 2023 · C$6k
  • CO
    CITY OF TORONTO
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k

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
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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2
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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3
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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4
The Halton Region Conservation Authority

Conservation Halton is a community based environmental agency that protects restores and manages the watershed's conservation areas forests creeks Niagara Escarpment lands source water protection sites and biodiversity through science…

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5
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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6
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

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7
The Bruce Trail Conservancy

The Bruce Trail Conservancy (BTC) is one of Ontario’s largest land trusts and the steward of Canada’s longest marked footpath. We actively preserve and care for land within the Niagara Escarpment UNESCO World Biosphere to protect its…

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8
Federation of British Columbia Naturalists

Operating under the name BC Nature The Federation of British Columbia Naturalists is the umbrella organization supporting over 53 local natural history organizations located throughout British Columbia. Ongoing programs include: i)…

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9
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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10
Natureserve Canada

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

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11
World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada

World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…

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12
Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club

The ottawa field-naturalists' club is a volunteer registered charitable organization and is the oldest natural history club in canada. the club's ongoing programs include the publication of a national refereed scientific journal called the…

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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 Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 15 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
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 budgetFATAL LIGHT AWARENESS PROGRAM (FLAP) CANADA — C$19,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetTORONTO WILDLIFE CENTER (TWC) — C$11,984 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH PARK INITIATIVES (HIGH PARK NATURE CENTRE) — C$7,005 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBird Studies Canada — C$6,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFEDERATION OF ONTARIO NATURALISTS (OPERATING AT ONTARIO NATU — C$2,085 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOFO (ONTARIO FIELD ORNITHOLOGISTS) — C$2,054 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIAN BAY TRUST FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetToronto Zoo — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY (TRCA) — C$100 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.

Td Friends of the Env…Weston Family Foundat…Toronto FoundationHelen McCrea Peacock …Birds Canada / Oiseau…Jackman FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Aqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…My Tribute Gift Found…United Way East Ontar…
Td Friends of the Environment FoundationON10.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · Toronto Foundation · Helen McCrea Peacock Foundation · Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada · Jackman Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario

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 15 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under environment.

Source object 872463807:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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