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Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy

Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy (Ontario) receives grants from 40 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,938,035 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$2,417,922). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$7.7M
Revenue FY2024
40
Funders on record
C$3.9M
Grants received
C$11M
Net assets
23/40 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 28%

Against its field

Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,601 foundations nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−20% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve6.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)31% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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 = 20192019 Revenue 100 (C$2.0M) Expenses 100 (C$336k) Net assets 100 (C$2.0M)2020 Revenue 209 (C$4.2M) Expenses 740 (C$2.5M) Net assets 186 (C$3.7M)2021 Revenue 258 (C$5.2M) Expenses 472 (C$1.6M) Net assets 367 (C$7.4M)2022 Revenue 159 (C$3.2M) Expenses 389 (C$1.3M) Net assets 500 (C$10M)2023 Revenue 271 (C$5.5M) Expenses 751 (C$2.5M) Net assets 647 (C$13M)2024 Revenue 381 (C$7.7M) Expenses 2749 (C$9.2M) Net assets 570 (C$11M)
201920202021202220232024
Revenue (381)Expenses (2749)Net assets (570)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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2022 18% · 2023 8% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,335 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

C$1.7M
’19
C$1.7M
’20
C$3.6M
’21
C$1.9M
’22
C$2.9M
’23
−C$1.5M
’24
6.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$468k.

From the CRA filings of Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 40 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

Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy leans on a few funders — its largest provides 61% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy.

61%
largest funder
76%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 61% · 2020 75% · 2021 40% · 2022 55% · 2023 62% — broadly stable.

“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

50% of Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

94% of Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

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

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

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$171k 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 40 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 Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy reports

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

FY2024C$721k
22
23
24
  • 9% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy

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

14% of spending goes to programs.

Program 14%Management 25%Fundraising 60%

Governance

6
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy?
Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy (Ontario) receives grants from 40 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,938,035 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$2,417,922). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 40 organizations giving C$3,938,035 in grants to Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$2,417,922 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Toronto Zoo Wildlife Conservancy 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 40 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