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Toronto, ON · Charitable organization

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.

C$174k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$28k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$145k
C$13,894
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$6.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKEC$35,000
UNIVERSITE LAVALC$20,000
TRENT UNIVERSITYC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOOC$16,000
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$15,579
BC NATURALISTS' FOUNDATIONC$15,000
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$13,894
UNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYC$10,000
LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITYC$7,800
WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITYC$6,125
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$6,000
YUKON UNIVERSITYC$5,000
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$3,230
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$1.8M
Quebec
C$247k
British Columbia
C$216k
Alberta
C$129k
New Brunswick
C$64k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$43k
Nova Scotia
C$30k
Saskatchewan
C$16k
Yukon
C$10k

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 25 repeat orgsC$340k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
10

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+30%

Still filing today

92%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$42k 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

  • NC
    NATURESERVE CANADA
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$592k · revenue +53%
  • BS
    BIRD STUDIES CANADA/ETUDES D'OISEAUX CANADA
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$568k · revenue +100%
  • TU
    Trent University
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$131k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • UD
    UNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A RIMOUSKIgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$88k · revenue +36%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA
    one grant, 2023 · C$78k · revenue +10%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA
    one grant, 2022 · C$35k · revenue +15%

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
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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2
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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3
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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4
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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5
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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6
Universite Du Quebec

Enseignement et recherche universitaire

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7
Universite Concordia

The main mission of the University is to provide post-secondary and graduate education. It engages in research public services and assists students faculties and researchers. Concordia University Faculty of Arts and Science Gina Cody…

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8
Universite De Moncton

Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche

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9
University of Prince Edward Island

Post-Secondary Education

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10
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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11
Simon Fraser University

Sfu offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the faculties of applied science arts and social services beedie school of business education environment health sciences sciences and communication arts and technology. the university…

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12
UniversitÉ Du QuÉBec À MontrÉAl

La mission de l'université consiste à former des étudiants et à contributer à l'avancement des connaissances par des activités de recherche. toutes les ressources de l'université ont été dépensées dans le cadre le cardre de sa mission par…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Saskatchewan and the most unlike its peers is The Canadian Cave Conservancy. 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

33 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. 33 of the 38 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
30/33
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 budgetNATURESERVE CANADA — C$592,067 over 4y, 15% of budgetBIRD STUDIES CANADA/ETUDES D'OISEAUX CANADA — C$568,062 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTrent University — C$131,378 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY OF SUDBURY — C$100,560 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DU QUEBEC A RIMOUSKI — C$87,944 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$80,427 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$78,377 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$72,394 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE LAVAL — C$68,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC CANADA CONSERVATION DATA CENTRE — C$63,985 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$63,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE SHERBROOKE — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$56,860 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$44,185 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND — C$42,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$40,320 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBC NATURALISTS' FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$36,646 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$34,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$33,907 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYORK UNIVERSITY — C$32,135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$30,768 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY — C$26,472 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMPSON RIVER UNIVERSITY — C$26,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DENA KAYEH INSTITUTE — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$15,579 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$15,156 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ONTARIO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYUKON UNIVERSITY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CANADIAN CAVE CONSERVANCY — C$1,500 over 1y, 50% 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.

Heart and Stroke Foun…The Leonard FoundationCanadian Cancer Socie…The John Dobson Found…World Wildlife Fund C…The Kpmg Foundation/L…Makeway FoundationActuaEnactus CanadaRideau Hall Foundatio…The Nature Conservanc…Ottawa Community Foun…
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du CanadaON10.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canada · The Leonard Foundation · Canadian Cancer Society - Société Canadienne Du Cancer · The John Dobson Foundation · World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Ada · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Makeway Foundation · Actua · Enactus Canada · Rideau Hall Foundation / Fondation Rideau Hall · The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Nature · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa

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 38 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 2024-06-30, 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 854255882:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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