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Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada

Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada (Ontario) receives grants from 106 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$10,338,752 to it, the largest being Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston (C$3,115,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$11M
Revenue FY2024
106
Funders on record
C$10M
Grants received
C$10M
Net assets
70/106 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 22%

Against its field

Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 14 educational orgs n.e.c. nonprofits its size.

Operating margin6% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.6mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 14 educational orgs n.e.c. nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$4.9M) Expenses 100 (C$5.0M) Net assets 100 (C$6.9M)2018 Revenue 111 (C$5.4M) Expenses 100 (C$5.0M) Net assets 100 (C$6.9M)2019 Revenue 135 (C$6.6M) Expenses 111 (C$5.6M) Net assets 116 (C$8.0M)2020 Revenue 114 (C$5.6M) Expenses 125 (C$6.3M) Net assets 106 (C$7.3M)2021 Revenue 161 (C$7.9M) Expenses 135 (C$6.8M) Net assets 121 (C$8.4M)2022 Revenue 180 (C$8.8M) Expenses 159 (C$8.0M) Net assets 132 (C$9.1M)2023 Revenue 198 (C$9.7M) Expenses 187 (C$9.5M) Net assets 134 (C$9.2M)2024 Revenue 229 (C$11M) Expenses 207 (C$10M) Net assets 146 (C$10M)
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Revenue (229)Expenses (207)Net assets (146)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 40% · 2018 39% · 2019 34% · 2020 50% · 2021 37% · 2022 53% · 2023 52% · 2024 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

80% of Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 14 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$169k
’17
C$358k
’18
C$1.0M
’19
−C$722k
’20
C$1.0M
’21
C$733k
’22
C$195k
’23
C$720k
’24
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 33 funders to 55 funders, grant income rose C$766k → C$2.1M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$1.6M
C$424k
T-Gear Foundationunclassified
C$376k
Makeway Foundationunclassified
C$254k
C$153k
C$130k
C$75k
C$51k
C$40k
funders
33
39
39
40
40
45
55
50

From the CRA filings of Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 106 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada.

30%
largest funder
51%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 33% · 2018 23% · 2019 28% · 2020 24% · 2021 29% · 2022 20% · 2023 38% — growing more concentrated.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

52% of Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

85% of Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$132k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 106 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government revenue Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$5.1M
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  • 46% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Ontario

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

81% of spending goes to programs.

Program 81%Management 10%Fundraising 8%

Governance

16
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada?
Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada (Ontario) receives grants from 106 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$10,338,752 to it, the largest being Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston (C$3,115,000). 70 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 106 organizations giving C$10,338,752 in grants to Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada, 70 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada?
Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston is the largest funder on record, with C$3,115,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 106 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register