Halifax, NS · Private foundation
Aidaen Mae Mitchell Foundation
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k4 grants · C$7k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AIDAEN MAE FUND | C$60,000 |
| PARISH OF YARMOUTH AND TUSKET | C$3,000 |
| CAMP PENIEL SOCIETY | C$3,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY YARMOUTH | C$500 |
| THE CHURCHILL CEMETERY COMPANY | C$200 |
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”
Backed again, and grew
- AMAIDAEN MAE FUND3× · 2021–2024 · C$122k · revenue +41% · 26% of their budget
- CPCAMP PENIEL SOCIETY4× · 2020–2024 · C$12k · revenue -3%
- YHYARMOUTH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2022 · C$11k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- YWYARMOUTH WESLEYAN CHURCHgraduatedone grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue +62%
- YFYARMOUTH FOOD BANK SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue -46%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide and coordinate the supply of meals food and other basic necessities to the homeless lonely and needy people of the yarmouth area.
Provides food for people in need
Support provided for worship and spiritual care of members and attenders; link maintained with regional national and international religious society of friends (quakers)
Operating a food kitchen providing meals to children in the town of yarmouth during the day. supporting a commnunity garden project that will provide vegetables to low income families and for the feeding of children in need. support of the…
Ongoing operation of gift shop and stages an annual fair to raise funds to provide comfort to nurses and donations for equipment to the yarmouth hospital
Burials upkeep beautification and service to public and lot holders - in all aspects of cemetery affairs. no new programs wer launched this year.
Daily worship pastoral care and counselling home and hospital visits to the sick funerals weddings other sacramental rites
Our entire building is dedicated to our sport heritage museum individual plaques of inductees are prominently displayed along with artifacts and memorabilia of the sports history of the yarmouth co. area. we continue to collect and display…
We operate an historical museum and archives/research library and an historic house. we also take care of local historic sites. programs: historic speakers education talks tours for school classes help students and adults with research…
Financial assistance to cover costs for yarmouth county residents associated with cancer treatment.
The boys & girls club of yarmouth provides daycare afterschool programs and club facilities delivering programs to children and youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wesleyan Church of Yarmouth and the most unlike its peers is The Churchill Cemetery Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.