Ontario · Registered charity
PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY
PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY (Ontario) receives grants from 31 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$910,562 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$280,601). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 435 animal welfare nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 animal welfare nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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 Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Rotary Club of Windsor Foundation Fundlocal
- Willow Beach Field Naturalists Clubportfolio 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: 2020 23% · 2021 28% · 2022 5% · 2023 3% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
72% of PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (53% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose C$27k → C$80k.
From the CRA filings of PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 31 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
PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 68%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 67% · 2019 32% · 2020 40% · 2021 31% · 2022 36% · 2023 25% — 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
46% of PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 42% 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
99% of PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY'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$16k 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. Your 31 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Rotary Club of Windsor Foundation FundlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
- Willow Beach Field Naturalists Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South Peel Naturalists' Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Willow Grove Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- T-Gear Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dr. Fouad Tayfour Charitable FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- Heritage Park Alliance ChurchlocalON · funds 6 organizations near you
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 PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 4% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY?
- PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY (Ontario) receives grants from 31 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$910,562 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$280,601). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 31 organizations giving C$910,562 in grants to PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$280,601 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PELEE ISLAND BIRD OBSERVATORY 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 31 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