Nova Scotia · Registered charity
ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE
ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 53 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,192,533 to it, the largest being THE WALTONS TRUST (C$1,264,555). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE is better cushioned than half of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Small Change Fundportfolio match
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio match
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.
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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 23% · 2018 20% · 2019 25% · 2020 26% · 2021 28% · 2022 17% · 2023 21% · 2024 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 16 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose C$320k → C$907k.
From the CRA filings of ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 53 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
ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 17% · 2019 18% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2022 37% · 2023 31% — diversifying over time.
“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
57% of ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.
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
ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 8 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$95k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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.
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 53 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- North Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Small Change Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hummingbird Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chisholm Thomson Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 39 organizations that share your funders
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canadashared fundersON · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- Walker Wood Foundationshared fundersNS · backs 41 organizations that share your funders
- Halifax Youth Foundationshared fundersNS · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- J and W Murphy Foundationshared fundersNS · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- The Slaight Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 60 organizations that share your funders
- Max Bell Foundationshared fundersAB · backs 38 organizations that share your funders
- The Windsor Foundationshared fundersNS · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
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 ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 19% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE
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 Nova Scotia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE?
- ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 53 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,192,533 to it, the largest being THE WALTONS TRUST (C$1,264,555). 37 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 53 organizations giving C$5,192,533 in grants to ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE, 37 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE?
- THE WALTONS TRUST is the largest funder on record, with C$1,264,555 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nova Scotia.
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 53 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