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AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION (Washington) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,729,523 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,565,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.7M
- Funders on record
- 28
- Grants received
- $3.7M
- Net assets
- $2.8M
What American Friends of Canadian Conservation does
Mission
To protect and to promote the protection of the ecological integrity and other conservation values of the natural areas of canada through securement of fee title and less than fee interests in land and support of canadian conservation nonprofits and agencies.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
General support program: the organization provides funding for the conservation and stewardship activities of approved canadian charities that have been pre-qualified as grantees. The revenues used by the organization to make grants come from individuals, businesses, and philanthropies that wish to underwrite the preservation of canada's natural heritage and build the capacity of canadian entities engaged in natural resource preservation. Donors to american freinds may recommend that its board of directors consider making a grant to a specific grantee or request that their funds benefit a specific part of canada.
$1,350,316 spentof which $1,350,316 as grants95% of program spendingCross border conservation land program: the organization accepts gifts of ecologically significant land (or partial interest in such land) in canada's most environmentally sensitive, scenic and unique landscapes. Canadian nonprofits that meet american friends' strict criteria, which are based on irs definitions of qualified organizations, partner with the organization on all gift transactions. These partner organizations are carefully screened through a rigorous application process to ensure that they are capable of being permanent stewards of the donated lands. If approved, these entities become grantees of american friends. Written contracts between american friends and its grantee organizations - with annual reporting requriements - ensure that donated land and easements will be properly monitored and managed. The organization and its partners secure stewardship funds sufficient to cover the costs of caring for the donated properties. The level of sterwardship funding required is based on a thorough assessment of each property's natural, cultural and recreational characterisitics and the potential risks associated with its perpetual care.
$76,905 spent5% of program spending
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,427,221.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.3M to $3.1M (+135%).
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.
100% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (88% 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
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 1 funder to 12 funders, grant income rose $6k → $294k.
13 of 28 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 92% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
94% 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 86% · 2019 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 33% · 2022 35% · 2023 48% — 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–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 39% 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
92% of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $294k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Washington, across 9 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 10 states 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–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,074 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,074 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Washington
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
61%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION?
- AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION (Washington) receives grants from 28 organizations whose IRS filings report $3,729,523 to it, the largest being VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ($1,565,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 92% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION have?
- IRS filings report 28 organizations giving $3,729,523 in grants to AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION?
- VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM is the largest funder on record, with $1,565,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Washington. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 28 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 filing