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Truro, NS · Private foundation

Charles and Mary Maclennan Foundation

The foundation provides support and aids in the advancement of the performing arts.

C$588k
Granted FY2020
3
Grants FY2020
1
Regions reached
C$577k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$1k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$577k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$385k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COBEQUID ARTS COUNCILC$577,071
HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
PERFORM NOVA SCOTIA (THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA)C$1,000
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$588k · 4 repeat orgsC$27k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

C$588k
C$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
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

  • CA
    COBEQUID ARTS COUNCIL
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$580k · revenue +6%
  • CB
    CAPE BRETON KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$3k · revenue -13%
  • TM
    TRURO MUSICAL FESTIVAL
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$3k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CB
    Cape Breton Chorale
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue -85%
  • SN
    SYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$4k · revenue -5%
  • NS
    Nova Scotia Youth Orchester
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k

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.

1
The Cape Breton Chamber Orchestra Society

The Cape Breton Orchestra's educational mandate includes providing opportunities for its 40 members to develop their musical instrumental and ensemble-playing skills while educating the public about composers repertoire genres and music…

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2
Chebucto Orchestral Society of Nova Scotia

The Orchestra is a volunteer musical organization dedicated to provide an opportunity for musicians of all ages and abilities to perform a wide repertoire of orchestral music and to serve as a platform for young aspiring soloists choral…

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3
Bravura Nova Scotia

Endowments faculty fellowships bursaries scholarships and cash prizes awarded to qualifying students and teachers in nova scotia performing arts

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4
Nova Scotia Talent Trust

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

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5
Halifax Summer Opera Festival Association
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6
Northumberland Orchestra Society

Classical music concerts in our community; teaching musicians and singers

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7
Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra Foundation
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8
The Federation of Music Festivals of Ns

Fmfns produces a music festival which provides a platform for young amateur classical musicians (including musical theatre) to perform and be adjudicated by renown adjudicators in their field of discipline. it provides ans opportunity for…

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9
Chaleur Music Festival Musique Chaleur

The music festival's purpose is to continue to simulate an interest in music education in our community and outlying areas and is open to people of all ages and ability. We aim to raise the standard of music and music education in the…

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10
Scotia Festival of Music Foundation

Investment of endowment portfolio to support classical chamber music in Nova Scotia.

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11
Scotia Chamber Players

Scotia festival of music holds an annual 2 week festival featuring guest artists from around the world to provide training to young assists from canada and the united states. this festival is one -of a kind event in canada two fundraising…

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12
Nova Scotia Choral Federation

The Nova Scotia Choral Federation (the 'Federation') was incorporated in 1976 under the Societies Act of Nova Scotia. Its mandate is to serve the needs of the choral community and raise public awareness of choral music. Summer music camps…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Symphony Nova Scotia Society and the most unlike its peers is The Ark-Community Initiatives 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

12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
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$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOBEQUID ARTS COUNCIL — C$579,932 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCape Breton Chorale — C$5,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE BRETON KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL — C$3,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetTRURO MUSICAL FESTIVAL — C$3,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetNova Scotia Youth Orchester — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHEATRE NOVA SCOTIA — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHALIFAX CAMERATA SINGERS — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFirst United Church — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetL'ARCHE CAPE BRETON — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

River Philip Foundati…Charitable Gift Funds…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps CanadonPayPal Giving Fund Ca…
River Philip FoundationNS8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: River Philip Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 12 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 2020-12-18, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2020. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under arts.

Source object 118850189:2020-12-18 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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