In 2024, Echo Foundation awarded grants totalling $9,121,905 to support a variety of concrete endeavours which reflect the Foundation’s environmental priorities and concerns, including:
Action Saint-François
Sherbrooke, Quebec
($25,000, over three years) $10,000
For its waterway cleaning activities.
Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts
Victoria, British Columbia
($150,000, over three years) $50,000
For its operating expenses.
Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative (A2A)
Lansdowne, Ontario
($60,000, over two years) $30,000
For its cope operating expenses.
Les Amis de la Montagne
Montreal, Quebec
($200,000, over two years) $100,000
To increase public awareness of Mount-Royal and the need for its long‑term protection.
Appalachian Corridor
Eastman, Quebec
($225,000, over three years) $75,000
For the protection of the natural corridor spanning the Vermont/Quebec border and extending from the Green Mountains, through the Sutton Mountains, to Mount Orford and beyond.
Appalachian Corridor
Eastman, Quebec
$250,000
For the protection of the Brière Property, 1,420 acres along the border north of South Richford.
Birds Canada / Wildlife Conservation Society / NatureServe Canada
Port Rowan, Ontario
($350,000, over three years) $100,000
For their project “Identifying and Stewarding Key Biodiversity Areas in Canada”.
Canadian Organic Growers / Regeneration Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
$50,000
For its project titled “Regenerative Agriculture Roadmap 2030”.
The Canary Research Institute for Mining, Environment and Health
Ottawa, Ontario
($200,000, over two years) $100,000
For the promotion of improved mining regulations and policies, studies on the environmental and socio-economic impacts of mining operations, as well as for administrative expenses.
Capitale Nature
Quebec City, Quebec
($45,000, over two years) $20,000
For its project “Canvassing of acquisitions and its property management plan”.
Centre for Environmental Leadership in Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($375,000, over three years) $125,000
For the GreenPAC Parliamentary Internship Program.
Centre for Land Conservation / Kawartha Land Trust
Ottawa, Ontario
($525,000, over three years) $200,000
For the joint project titled “Resilience through Collaboration: Conservation partnership, mentoring.and capacity building in the Peterborough and Kawartha Lakes region”
Citizens Environment Alliance of Southwestern Ontario
Windsor, Ontario
($450,000, over two years) $225,000
For The Urban Climate Alliance.
The Climate Reality Project Canada
Montreal, Quebec
$75,000
For its work in Ontario.
Community Energy Association
Vancouver, British Columbia
($182,000, over two years) $91,000
For the “National Municipal Climate Action Accelerator (NMCAA)” project.
Community Forests International
Sackville, New Brunswick
($300,000, over three years) $100,000
For its Forgotten Forests project.
Conservation Council fo New Brunswick
Fredericton, New Brunswick
$50,000
For its work in supporting wetland protection and forest conservation.
DataStream Initiative
Toronto, Ontario
($180,000, over three years) $60,000
For its operating expenses.
Earth Rangers
Woodbridge, Ontario
($65,000, over two years) $35,000
For its ‘ER Teens’ program.
Earthroots
Toronto, Ontario
($195,000, over three years) $75,000
For its capacity building.
East Coast Environmental Law Association
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($225,000, over three years) $75,000
For its capacity building.
Éco-Corridors Laurentiens
St. Jerome, Quebec
($150,000, over three years) $50,000
For the consolidation of the ecological network in the Laurentians.
Ecojustice Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($600,000, over three years) $200,000
For its project “Aligning Canada’s Financial System with Climate and Environmental Goals”.
Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($150,000, over two years) $75,000
For its operating expenses.
Ecology Action Centre
Halifax, Nova Scotia
($140,000, over two years) $70,000
For its project “Committing to e-school buses across Atlantic Canada”.
Elora Centre for Environmental Excellence
Elora, Ontario
$35,000
For “The Tree Trust”.
Environmental Defence Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($600,000, over three years) $200,000
For its work on plastics and its capacity building.
Environmental Defence Canada
Toronto, Ontario
$50,000
To support the Strathmere Group to nurture collaborative work among ENGOs.
Environment Funders Canada
Toronto, Ontario
$1,000,000
To support the work of the Low Carbon Funders’ Group as reflected in the Pan-Canadian Framework.
Équiterre
Montreal, Quebec
($300,000, over two years) $150,000
For its project “Building resilient agriculture to tackle the climate and biodiversity crises”.
Fatal Light Awareness Program Canada
Toronto, Ontario
$15,000
For its operating expenses.
Finance Engage Sustain / Re_Generation
Toronto, Ontario
$35,000
For the project “Empowering the Next Generation of Employee Advocates to Accelerate the Clean Economy”.
Fondation de l’Université du Québec en Abitibi-Témiscamingue
Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec
($50,000, over two years) $25,000
For the enhancement of the historical collection of Camp Chicobi.
Fondation en environnement et développement durable
Montreal, Quebec
$45,000
For the mobilization of civil society in view of the COP16 on biodiversity.
Fondation SÉTHY
Granby, Quebec
($85,000, over three years) $15,000
For its conservation and restoration projects.
Foundation of Greater Montreal
Montreal, Quebec
($95,000, over two years) $30,000
For the “Fund for Climate and Ecological Transition”.
Friends of the Muskoka Watershed
Bracebridge, Ontario
($30,000, over three years) $10,000
For “ASHMuskoka”.
Friends of the Rouge Watershed
Scarborough, Ontario
($30,000, over three years) $10,000
For its project “Educating and Activating School and Community Volunteers to Restore Forests and Wetlands, and Combat Pollution, Climate Change, Flooding and Biodiversity-Loss”.
Georgian Bay Mnidoo Gamii Biosphere
Parry Sound, Ontario
($150,000, over two years) $75,000
For the “State of the Bay: Mobilizing Knowledges” project.
Greenbelt Foundation
Toronto, Ontario
($300,000, over three years) $100,000
For its project titled “Valuing Nature in Municipal Asset Management”.
Green Communities Foundation
Peterborough, Ontario
$105,000
For the “Living Cities Canada Demonstration Fund”.
Greener Village
Fredericton, New-Brunswick
($120,000, over three years) $60,000
To build Atlantic Canada’s first Perishable Food Rescue Centre.
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund
Toronto, Ontario
$30,000
For a research on Paper Excellence’s impact on nature loss in Canada.
Green Thumbs Growing Kids
Toronto, Ontario
($50,000, over two years) $25,000
For its Kids Growing Program.
Le Groupe Ambioterra
St. Chrysostome, Quebec
($60,000, over three years) $15,000
For the protection of natural habitats in southwestern Quebec.
Ignatius Jesuit Centre
Guelph, Ontario
($70,000, over two years) $35,000
For the project titled “New Farmer Education in Regenerative Organic Agriculture”.
Ivey Foundation / Clean Prosperity
Toronto, Ontario
($300,000, over three years) $100,000
To research, develop and socialize economic policies aligned with a net-zero by 2050 goal.
Ivey Foundation / Clean Prosperity
Toronto, Ontario
($100,000, over two years) $50,000
For the “Hub project”.
Junction Creek Stewardship Committee
Sudbury, Ontario
($30,000, over three years) $10,000
For its project “Community-led action to address stormwater pollutants”.
Legacy Fund for the Environment
Montreal, Quebec
($150,000, over four years) $40,000
For the hiring of a new Executive Director and an Administrative Assistant.
MakeWay Charitable Society
Toronto, Ontario
($250,000, over three years) $100,000
For Our Living Waters, and their work to ensure clean and healthy waters for all Canadians.
MakeWay Charitable Society
Toronto, Ontario
($180,000, over three years) $60,000
For the EcoAnalytics initiative.
Mississippi Madawaska Land Trust
Carleton Place, Ontario
$55,000
For the protection of the 256-acre Marl Lake Nature Reserve.
The Narwhal News Society
Victoria, British Columbia
($160,000, over two years) $85,000
For its Ontario bureau operating expenses.
The Natural Step (Canada) Inc.
Ottawa, Ontario
($300,000, over three years) $100,000
For its project “Invest in Nature Expert Resources Hub”.
Nature Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
($360,000, over four years) $120,000
For its project titled “Scaling Up Nature-based Climate Solutions in Canada”.
Nature Conservancy of Canada
Montreal, Quebec
($100,000, over three years) $30,000
For its efforts to protect the public and private lands of the natural corridor between Kenauk and Mont Tremblant National Park.
Nature Conservancy of Canada
Toronto, Ontario
$40,000
For the acquisition and protection of the 99.69-acre Ganaraska Headwaters.
Nature Canada
Ottawa, Ontario
($50,000, over two years) $25,000
For the Green Budget Coalition, which regroups over 20 leading environmental organizations, which analyzes the environmental impacts of the Federal government’s draft budgets and makes recommendations thereon.
Nature Nova Scotia
Kentville, Nova Scotia
$26,780
For capacity building.
Nature United
Toronto, Ontario
($1,000,000, over five years) $200,000
For the Great Bear Sea Project Finance for Permanence.
The New Farm Centre for Climate Action
Creemore, Ontario
$50,000
For the demonstration and development of a regenerative farming system.
Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust
Schomberg, Ontario
$150,000
For the acquisition and protection of the 98.1-acre Northumberland property.
Oak Ridges Moraine Land Trust
Schomberg, Ontario
($300,000, over three years) $100,000
For capacity building.
Oceana Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($225,000, over three years) $75,000
For its work on reducing plastics.
Ontario Clean Air Alliance Research Inc.
Toronto, Ontario
($100,000, over two years) $50,000
For its work to promote the phasing out Ontario’s gas plants and gas for home heating and meeting Ontario’s future needs with renewable energy.
Ontario Farmland Trust
Guelph, Ontario
$40,000
For the PEC Cluster Initiative.
Ontario Streams
Aurora, Ontario
($300,000, over three years) $100,000
For its project titled “Conserving and Rehabilitating Southern Ontario Watersheds 2023-2026”.
Ontario Turtle Conservation Centre
Selwyn, Ontario
($45,000, over three years) $15,000
For its educational programming.
Ottawa Riverkeeper
Ottawa, Ontario
($150,000, over three years) $50,000
For its Watershed Health Assessment and Monitoring initiative.
Park People
Toronto, Ontario
$30,000
For its administrative expenses and for community groups with a mental health program.
The Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development / Pollution Probe / Ecology Ottawa
Calgary, Alberta
($60,000, over two years) $30,000
For the Ontario Electric School Bus coordination working group.
Quebec Environmental Law Centre
Montreal, Quebec
$60,000
For its operating expenses.
Quebec-Labrador Foundation
Montreal, Quebec
($325,000, over three years) $125,000
For its work on connectivity in the Northern Appalachian-Acadian/Wabanaki ecoregion and for a Northeastern North America Landscape Connectivity Summit and Action Plan.
Rivers Foundation
Montreal, Quebec
($50,000, over two years) $25,000
For its project “NO to unjustified dams”.
Sackville Rivers Association
Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia
$15,000
For its River Restoration Project.
Salal Foundation / Canopy
Vancouver, British Columbia
($225,000, over three years) $75,000
For its collaboration with Canopy for conservation work under the Salal Foundation’s program priority Greening Canadian Industries.
Salal Foundation
Vancouver, British Columbia
($80,000, over two years) $40,000
For the “For Our Kids” initiative.
Salal Foundation
Vancouver, British Columbia
$75,000
For the “Fossil Fuel Non-Proliferation Treaty Initiative”.
Second Harvest Canada
Etobicoke, Ontario
$25,000
For its projects “Direct Food Rescue and Delivery” and “Online Food Rescue Application’”.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
($150,000, over three years) $50,000
For its operating expenses.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
$20,000
For its project “Shaping a Fair and Transparent Greenbelt Act Review”.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
$5,000
For the Commerce and Engineering Environmental Conference at Queen’s University.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
($600,000, over two years) $200,000
For the “Public Voice Fund’.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
($150,000, over two years) $75,000
For the project “Changing the Conversation in Newfoundland & Labrador”.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
($100,000, over two years) $50,000
For the Climate Justice Organizing Hub.
Small Change Fund
Toronto, Ontario
($600,000, over three years) $200,000
For its efforts to protect the Toronto Greenbelt.
Sustainability Network
Toronto, Ontario
($150,000, over three years) $60,000
For the implementation of the Vision2030 framework.
Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement
Waterloo, Ontario
($120,000, over two years) $60,000
For the “Ontario Community of Practice” of the Community Climate Transition.
Toronto Association of Neighbourhood Services
Toronto, Ontario
($120,000, over two years) $40,000
To support the work of the Ontario Nonprofit Network.
Township of Uxbridge
Uxbridge, Ontario
$50,000
For its efforts to add land to Uxbridge Urban Provincial Park.
La Transformerie
Montreal, Quebec
$30,000
For its project “Les Rescapés”.
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario
($72,000, over three years) $24,000
For the implementation of the Trent Nature Areas Stewardship Plan.
Vivre en Ville
Quebec City, Quebec
($150,000, over two years) $75,000
For its project “Accelerating the Energy and Ecological Transition of Greater Montréal and Québec’s Built Environment – Component 2.0”.
The Walrus Foundation
Toronto, Ontario
$25,000
For a series of articles on climate change.
Whistler Centre for Sustainability Institute Society
Whistler, British Columbia
($400,000, over four years) $100,000
For the “Climate Caucus”.
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
Toronto, Ontario
$100,000
For conservation work in Ontario’s northern Boreal area, mapping and GIS support of the northern Appalachian/Acadian ecoregion and for its operating expenses.
Wildlife Conservation Society Canada
Toronto, Ontario
($450,000, over three years) $150,000
For its project “Advancing Conservation in the Far North in Ontario”.