Quebec · Registered charity
Friends of the Gatineau River
Friends of the Gatineau River (Quebec) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$76,800 to it, the largest being THE ALVA FOUNDATION (C$50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Friends of the Gatineau River has grown faster than half of the 211 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 211 environment nonprofits under $100k, 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 Leacross Foundation/La Fondation Leacrosslocal
- Small Change Fundportfolio match
- Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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: 2020 67% · 2022 8% · 2023 15% · 2024 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
73% of Friends of the Gatineau River’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (58% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$3k → C$41k.
From the CRA filings of Friends of the Gatineau River’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 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
Friends of the Gatineau River leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 97%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Friends of the Gatineau River.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 81% · 2022 83% · 2023 61% — 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.
Where its funders are
Friends of the Gatineau River draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Quebec, across 1 region in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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.
- The Leacross Foundation/La Fondation LeacrosslocalQC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Small Change Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Four Oaks Foundationshared fundersON · backs 8 organizations that share your funders
- Nature Canada / Canada Natureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greenbelt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifiqueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Charles Frederick Fell Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sitka Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 Friends of the Gatineau River reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 76% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Friends of the Gatineau River
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 Quebec
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
25% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of the Gatineau River?
- Friends of the Gatineau River (Quebec) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$76,800 to it, the largest being THE ALVA FOUNDATION (C$50,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of the Gatineau River have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$76,800 in grants to Friends of the Gatineau River, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of the Gatineau River?
- THE ALVA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$50,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of the Gatineau River find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Quebec.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2020–2024), and the filings of 6 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