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MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS (Ontario) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$17,919 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$9,562). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$24k
Revenue FY2024
7
Funders on record
C$18k
Grants received
—
Net assets
3/7 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 30%

Against its field

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 617 educational orgs n.e.c. nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−7% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 617 educational orgs n.e.c. 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.

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$41k) Expenses 100 (C$41k)2018 Revenue 78 (C$32k) Expenses 63 (C$26k)2019 Revenue 70 (C$29k) Expenses 73 (C$30k)2020 Revenue 37 (C$16k) Expenses 59 (C$24k)2021 Revenue 31 (C$13k) Expenses 24 (C$10k)2022 Revenue 26 (C$11k) Expenses 44 (C$18k)2023 Revenue 70 (C$29k) Expenses 56 (C$23k)2024 Revenue 59 (C$24k) Expenses 51 (C$21k)
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Revenue (59)Expenses (51)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: 2018 5% · 2022 10%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

16% of MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (37% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 422 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$175
’17
C$6k
’18
−C$1k
’19
−C$9k
’20
C$3k
’21
−C$7k
’22
C$6k
’23
C$4k
’24
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose C$753 → C$793.

From the CRA filings of MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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

MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 53% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS.

53%
largest funder
90%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 90% · 2018 59% · 2019 91% · 2020 53% · 2021 75% · 2022 76% · 2023 82% — 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

53% of MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Ontario funders.

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

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

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$10k 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.

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 7 funders put you under-funded 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 MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS reports

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

FY2022C$1k
18
22
  • 10% of FY2022 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS

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

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 18%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS?
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS (Ontario) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$17,919 to it, the largest being Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa (C$9,562). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 53% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$17,919 in grants to MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS?
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa is the largest funder on record, with C$9,562 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MISSISSIPPI VALLEY FIELD NATURALISTS 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 7 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