Kentville, NS · Public foundation
Campaign for Kids Foundation
Support for principals fund- each year we make $800 available to each elementary and middle school within our country.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$3k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANNAPOLIS VALLEY REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION | C$23,148 |
| HOLLAND COLLEGE | C$2,000 |
| BERWICK FOOD BANK | C$500 |
| UPPER ROOM FOOD BANK | C$500 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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
- AVANNAPOLIS VALLEY REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$143k · revenue -100%
- URUPPER ROOM FOOD BANK6× · 2017–2024 · C$7k · revenue +61%
- BFBERWICK FOOD BANK7× · 2017–2024 · C$5k · revenue +334%
Funded once
- FIFUNDY INTERCHURCH FOOD BANKone grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +4%
- CHCHRYSALIS HOUSE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · C$3k · revenue -50%
- WAWOLFVILLE AREA INTERCHURCH COUNCILone grant, 2021 · C$3k · revenue -35%
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.
Provides food for people in need
Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities
To provide a 3 day emergency food supply to clients within the arthur community
To feed families in need in the annapolis royal catchment area
Dispensing food
Provide food for needy people in our catchment area. we also give out emergency baskets of food as well s extra food at christmas & for the summer.
Food bank
Provide good quality food to people in area who can't afford to buy food. (food bank)
Food purchase for anyone in need
Provide emergency food to those in need located in pictou county nova scotia
Food bank
Distribution of food to individuals experiencing food insecurity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolfville Area Interchurch Council and the most unlike its peers is Holland College. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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.
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.
- Who funds ANNAPOLIS VALLEY REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UPPER ROOM FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BERWICK FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FUNDY INTERCHURCH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOLFVILLE AREA INTERCHURCH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CANNING AREA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOLLAND COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NOVA SCOTIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Camp Rising Sun St. Joseph's Catholic Church ↗
- Who funds The Salvation Army ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Feed Nova Scotia Society · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · White Rock Community Association · Ourhouse Society · Port Williams Health Auxiliary · E K M Health Foundation · 14 Wing Combined Charities · United Way of Colchester County · Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.