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Bedford, NS · Public foundation

Big Brothers Big Sisters Nova Scotia Foundation

The big brothers big sister nova scotia foundation works to raise funds from individuals corporations other foundations and government departments as well as initiating and managing collaborative initiatives to support the mentoring programs and services of the six (6) independent and autonomous big brothers big sister agencies in nova…

C$7k
Granted FY2019
6
Grants FY2019
1
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2019 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PICTOU COUNTYC$1,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER HALIFAXC$1,500
BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF KINGS AND ANNAPOLIS COUNTIES ASSC$1,500
BIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF COLCHESTERC$1,500
SOUTH SHORE BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATIONC$500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CAPE BRETONC$500
02Your field
02the grantee network

6 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
4/6
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF KINGS AND ANNAPOLIS COUNTIES ASS — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PICTOU COUNTY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS - BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF COLCHESTER — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CAPE BRETON — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH SHORE BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

Big Brothers Big Sist…United Way Maritimes/…The Joyce Family Foun…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada-Les Grands Freres Grands Soeurs Du CanadaON10.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Big Brothers Big Sisters of Canada-Les Grands Freres Grands Soeurs Du Canada · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Joyce Family Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 6 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2019-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2019. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under educational orgs n.e.c..

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2023) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 814925608:2019-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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