Ontario · Registered charity
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA (Ontario) receives grants from 113 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,736,683 to it, the largest being Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement (C$2,211,372). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters 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.
- The Slaight Family Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Kensington Health Foundationlocal
- The Bennett Family Foundationshared funders
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 7% · 2018 28% · 2019 10% · 2020 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
95% of ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA’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. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 36 funders to 60 funders, grant income rose C$712k → C$2.7M.
From the CRA filings of ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 113 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
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 26% · 2018 21% · 2019 23% · 2020 22% · 2021 28% · 2022 24% · 2023 17% — 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
54% of ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
64% of ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$202k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 113 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Slaight Family Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 93 organizations that share your funders · funds 12 organizations near you
- The Kensington Health FoundationlocalON · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Bennett Family Foundationshared fundersON · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Donner Canadian Foundationshared fundersON · backs 68 organizations that share your funders
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada Fondation Des Maladies Du Coeur Et de L'Avc Du Canadashared fundersON · backs 30 organizations that share your funders
- Patrick and Barbara Keenan Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · funds 6 organizations near you
- The Four Oaks Foundationshared funderslocalON · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 5 organizations near you
- North Family Foundationshared fundersBC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders
- Butterfield Family FoundationlocalON · funds 9 organizations near you
- Airlie Foundationshared fundersON · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Max Bell Foundationshared fundersAB · backs 43 organizations that share your funders
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundationshared fundersON · backs 88 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 0% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE 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
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA?
- ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA (Ontario) receives grants from 113 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,736,683 to it, the largest being Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement (C$2,211,372). 78 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 113 organizations giving C$13,736,683 in grants to ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA, 78 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA?
- Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement is the largest funder on record, with C$2,211,372 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENCE CANADA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
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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 113 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