Alberta · Registered charity
SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS
SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS (Alberta) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$50,265 to it, the largest being TD FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION (C$14,381). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS is better cushioned than half of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities 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 Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Natureshared fundersportfolio match
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifiqueshared 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 25% · 2018 78% · 2019 77% · 2020 84% · 2021 84% · 2022 69% · 2023 64% · 2024 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
23% of SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (10% 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 held at 3 funders, grant income rose C$3k → C$10k.
From the CRA filings of SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS 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
SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 53% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 48% · 2022 47% · 2023 53% — 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
17% of SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 55% 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
SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 2 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$6k 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 11 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 33 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Natureshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifiqueshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kenneth M Molson Foundationshared fundersON · backs 23 organizations that share your funders
- Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bc Parks Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eden Conservation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Willow Beach Field Naturalists Clubportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ducks Unlimited Canada/Canards Illimites Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greenbelt Foundationshared fundersON · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
- Société de Recherche Sur le Cancer/Cancer Research Societyshared fundersQC · backs 20 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 SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 72% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS 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 Alberta
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS?
- SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS (Alberta) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$50,265 to it, the largest being TD FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION (C$14,381). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$50,265 in grants to SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS?
- TD FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$14,381 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOCIETY OF GRASSLANDS NATURALISTS find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.
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