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Halifax, NS · Private foundation

Black Family Foundation

Donations are made from the foundation to registered charities within canada

C$361k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$39k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k25 grants · C$123k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$239k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA/26/BUS STOP THEATREC$39,000
PHOENIX HOUSEC$25,000
FEED NOVA SCOTIAC$22,000
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$20,000
EAST PRESTON UNITED BAPTIST CHURCHC$18,000
SHELTER NOVA SCOTIAC$18,000
ADSUM ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN & CHILDRENC$13,000
BRUNSWICK STREET MISSIONC$13,000
PEACE GEEKS INTERNATIONAL SOCIETYC$10,500
ALL SAINTS CATHEDRALC$10,000
ST. PETER'S PARISH LARRY'S RIVERC$10,000
EAST PRESTON DAY CARE CENTREC$10,000
QEII FOUNDATIONC$10,000
NEPTUNE THEATREC$10,000
LUNENBURG ACADEMY OF MUSIC PERFORMANCEC$10,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 49 repeat orgsC$86k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
12

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+28%

Still filing today

98%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$27k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

  • PI
    PEACEGEEKS INTERNATIONAL
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$245k · revenue ×29 · 76% of their budget
  • TN
    THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA/26/BUS STOP THEATRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$138k · revenue +45%
  • FN
    FEED NOVA SCOTIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$127k · revenue +408%

Funded once

  • DG
    DARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +28%
  • MS
    MADAGASCAR SCHOOL PROJECT
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue +18%
  • MP
    MULGRAVE PARK CARING & LEARNING CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +17%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

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.

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Nova Scotia Talent Trust

The nova scotia talent trust offers scholarships to nova scotians studying in the arts

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2
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
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3
Nova Scotia Community College

The nova scotia community college provides post-secondary education to approximately 20 000 students. covering academic programs across various ares such as: business hospitality health & human services trades & technology applied arts &…

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4
The Nova Scotia Youth Project Society
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5
Halifax Humanities Society

The Halifax Humanities program provides opportunities and engagement with the arts to those who otherwise would lack such access. The program supports the students and the learning environment with transportation childcare books and…

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6
Nova Scotia Health Authority (Nsha)

The nova scotia health authority delivers inpatient and outpatient health care services to nova scotians at various hosptals clinics and health centres throughout the province of nova scotia. services provided include acute care mental…

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7
Sexual Health Nova Scotia Society

Provides sexual and reproductive health education promotion and awareness in nova scotia through our member centres throughout the province. this includes capacity building and professional development for communities and professionals who…

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8
Nova Scotia Seamanship Education Society

Provides support of seamanship education through providing scholarships to training programs.

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9
Mermaid Theatre of Nova Scotia

Presenting touring theatre for young audiences providing unique professional opportunities for atlantic canadian artists and techniques. provided employment opportunities for production staff. operated a performance facility. digital…

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10
Pac Autism Nova Scotia Society

Founded in 2002 autism nova scotia (ans) is a non-profit registered charity located in halifax nova scotia. ans was the original vision of joan and jack craig parents of an adult son with autism. today ans supports individuals with autism…

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11
Halifax Youth Foundation

Providing funding to agencies carrying out programs for the benefit of children and youth in nova scotia that are consistent with the objects of the foundation.

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12
Visual Arts Nova Scotia

to foster the development awareness and understanding of the visual arts in Nova Scotia to encourage the production exhibition and appreciation of works by nova scotia's visual artists; and to speak for visual artists in areas of common…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Laing House Association and the most unlike its peers is Peacegeeks International Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

65 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. 65 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
65/65
Grantees still filing
45/65
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPEACEGEEKS INTERNATIONAL — C$245,245 over 7y, 76% of budgetTHEATRE NOVA SCOTIA/26/BUS STOP THEATRE — C$137,500 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetALL SAINTS CATHEDRAL — C$129,500 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetFEED NOVA SCOTIA — C$127,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HALIFAX REGION — C$102,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budget2B THEATRE COMPANY — C$95,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetPHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAMS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$94,600 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST.PETER'S PARISH LARRY'S RIVER — C$67,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetLUNENBURG ACADEMY OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE — C$63,700 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetNEPTUNE THEATER FOUNDATION — C$63,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetADSUM ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — C$61,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPHOENIX HOUSE — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK STREET MISSION — C$48,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIA — C$48,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HORIZON'S BAPTIST CHURCH — C$40,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetEAST PRESTON UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH — C$39,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSHELTER NOVA SCOTIA — C$36,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE HALIFAX — C$35,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCHESTER PLAYHOUSE — C$34,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE ARK BOARD SOCIETY — C$31,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetQUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION INC. — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAING HOUSE — C$29,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMI'KMAW NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUL'S HARBOUR RESCUE MISSION — C$24,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetATLANTIC SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY — C$23,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPARISH OF ST.JOHN'S CHURCH LUNENBURG — C$20,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetEAST PRESTON DAY CARE CENTRE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ON GREATER HALIFAX — C$18,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT MARY'S BASILICA — C$18,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE — C$15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPLAYWWRIGHTS ATLANTIC RESOURCE CENTRE — C$14,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetZUPPA CIRCUS THEATRE SOCIETY — C$14,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE COTTAGE — C$11,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetWARD 5 NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHIP'S COMPANY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMADAGASCAR SCHOOL PROJECT — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMULGRAVE PARK CARING & LEARNING CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — C$9,000 over 3y, 39% of budgetLAING HOUSE — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSHAKESPEARE BY THE SEA THEATRE SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetEASTER SEALS OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAINT GEORGE'S YOUTHNET — C$7,500 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTWO PLANKS & A PASSION — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds PEACEGEEKS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA/26/BUS STOP THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds ALL SAINTS CATHEDRAL ↗
  • Who funds FEED NOVA SCOTIA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF HALIFAX REGION ↗
  • Who funds 2B THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAMS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST.PETER'S PARISH LARRY'S RIVER ↗
  • Who funds LUNENBURG ACADEMY OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE ↗
  • Who funds NEPTUNE THEATER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ADSUM ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds PHOENIX HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BRUNSWICK STREET MISSION ↗
  • Who funds SYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIA ↗
  • Who funds NEW HORIZON'S BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds EAST PRESTON UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER NOVA SCOTIA ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE HALIFAX ↗
  • Who funds CHESTER PLAYHOUSE ↗
  • Who funds THE ARK BOARD SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN ELIZABETH II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION INC. ↗
  • Who funds LAING HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MI'KMAW NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds SOUL'S HARBOUR RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds PARISH OF ST.JOHN'S CHURCH LUNENBURG ↗
  • Who funds EAST PRESTON DAY CARE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS ON GREATER HALIFAX ↗
  • Who funds SAINT MARY'S BASILICA ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLAYWWRIGHTS ATLANTIC RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds ZUPPA CIRCUS THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SHORE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOPE COTTAGE ↗
  • Who funds WARD 5 NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds DARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHIP'S COMPANY SOCIETY ↗

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.

J and W Murphy Founda…The Community Foundat…United Way Maritimes/…Sisters of Charity Mo…River Philip Foundati…The Windsor FoundationSaint Mary's Universi…Craig FoundationMental Health Foundat…Halifax Youth Foundat…Sisters of Charity - …The Wadih M. Fares Fa…
J and W Murphy FoundationNS32.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J and W Murphy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · River Philip Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · Saint Mary's University · Craig Foundation · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · Halifax Youth Foundation · Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement Centre · The Wadih M. Fares Family Foundation

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 66 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 823651153:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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