Ontario · Registered charity
NATURESERVE CANADA
NATURESERVE CANADA (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,026,353 to it, the largest being WCS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA (C$592,067). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
NATURESERVE CANADA's revenue grew 204% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 67 environment 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 Gosling Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Greenbelt Foundationshared fundersportfolio 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 94% · 2018 90% · 2019 88% · 2020 77% · 2021 81% · 2022 89% · 2023 83% · 2024 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
86% of NATURESERVE CANADA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (14% 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.
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Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell C$118k → C$99k.
From the CRA filings of NATURESERVE CANADA’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
NATURESERVE CANADA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 NATURESERVE CANADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 72% · 2018 66% · 2019 99% · 2020 84% · 2021 47% · 2022 73% · 2023 99% — 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
40% of NATURESERVE CANADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
98% of NATURESERVE 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. 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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Gosling Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Greenbelt Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 25 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Nature Canada / Canada Natureshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 42 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fondation de L'Institut Canadien Francais D'OttawalocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnementportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Earth Rangers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ducks Unlimited Canada/Canards Illimites Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.portfolio 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 NATURESERVE CANADA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 90% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like NATURESERVE 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds NATURESERVE CANADA?
- NATURESERVE CANADA (Ontario) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,026,353 to it, the largest being WCS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA (C$592,067). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NATURESERVE CANADA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$1,026,353 in grants to NATURESERVE CANADA, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NATURESERVE CANADA?
- WCS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$592,067 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NATURESERVE 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 11 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