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THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO
THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO (Ontario) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$20,185,702 to it, the largest being TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (C$17,544,011). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$192M
- Funders on record
- 23
- Grants received
- C$20M
- Net assets
- C$618M
What The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office de Protection de la Nature de Toronto does
Ongoing programs
TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities regional biodiversity and the conservation of greenspace. Activities include watershed planning and management flood risk management habitat restoration environmental education community engagement and research to inform evidence-based decision-making.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from C$632M to C$714M (+13%).
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 70% · 2018 73% · 2019 94% · 2020 86% · 2021 79% · 2022 77% · 2023 77% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose C$16k → C$4.2M.
From the CRA filings of THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 22 of 23 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
THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 77% · 2019 97% · 2020 96% · 2021 81% · 2022 92% · 2023 73% — 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
47% of THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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 THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO'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$4k 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.
Government revenue THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 73% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO?
- THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO (Ontario) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$20,185,702 to it, the largest being TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION FOUNDATION (C$17,544,011). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 23 organizations giving C$20,185,702 in grants to THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO?
- TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$17,544,011 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TORONTO AND REGION CONSERVATION AUTHORITY / OFFICE DE PROTECTION DE LA NATURE DE TORONTO 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 23 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register