Kentville, NS · Charitable organization
Christian Reformed Church of Kentville
1.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD RENEW | C$2,366 |
| DENOMINATIONAL SERVICES MINISTRY | C$1,524 |
| HARVEST CHRISTIAN ACADEMY | C$665 |
| VALLEY CARE PREGNANCY CENTER | C$362 |
| FUNDY INTERNATIONAL FOOD BANK | C$260 |
| FIDELIS HOUSE ASSOCIATION | C$150 |
| VALLEY HOSPICE FOUNDATION | C$125 |
| CHRYSALIS HOUSE ASSOCIATION | C$100 |
| VALLEY REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$80 |
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 +53% since the first grant, against -160% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$665 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
- VCVALLEY CARE PREGNANCY CENTRE7× · 2017–2024 · C$4k · revenue +6%
- FHFIDELIS HOUSE6× · 2018–2024 · C$3k · revenue +112%
- FIFUNDY INTERCHURCH FOOD BANK6× · 2019–2024 · C$2k · revenue +201%
Funded once
- DSDenominational Services Ministryone grant, 2017 · C$5k
- WRWorld Renewone grant, 2017 · C$4k
- OHOUR HOUSEone grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue -160%
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.
Advocate for and develop affordable housing opportunities in the columbia valley
The charity operates to provide capital equipment and program assistance to the annapolis valley district health authority through the valley regional hospital foundation and to a minor extent support local programs.
Operation of second stage housing for women & children fleeing domestic violence. operation of rent geared to income rental units for seniors and people with disabilities. operation of low end of market rental units for low to moderate…
Raising funds for an endowment fund for which the charity earns income and distributes the income to various local societies and other organizations that are in need raising funds for the homelessness concerns in the valley
Providing household goods for war veterans moving from the streets into housing provided by 'homes for heroes'
Provide shelter and safety to women and their dependent children who are escaping family violence. Provide food housing clothing personal care items medical supplies prescriptions and household items to residents of our emergency shelter…
The charity operates a 36 bed emergency shelter and community support outreach program for women and their children that are facing violence poverty homelessness and oppression. at the shelter we provide shelter safety counselling referral…
Outreach & support food rescue & seasonal & emergency hampers assisting unhoused seniors marginalized communities
Operating a residential hospice for end of life care for those suffering a life limiting illness.
Operate a 21 resident supportive housing facility providing meals social programming and overnight emergency response
Provision of safe shelter advocacy education and counselling for women and children who have been victims of violence. supportive housing to women transitioning from shelter to permanent housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Fidelis House Society and the most unlike its peers is Ourhouse Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 21 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 WORLD RENEW ↗
- Who funds DENOMINATIONAL SERVICES MINISTRY ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CARE PREGNANCY CENTRE ↗
- Who funds FIDELIS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FUNDY INTERCHURCH FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OUR HOUSE ↗
- Who funds OPEN ARMS ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HOSPICE FOUNDATION ↗
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: Kentville United Baptist Church · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Port Williams Health Auxiliary · E K M Health Foundation · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Kingsway Assembly · Coldbrook Baptist Church · Alton Baptist Church · George F. Wade Foundation · 14 Wing Combined Charities · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · My Tribute Gift 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.