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Halifax, NS · Private foundation

Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation

The foundations'activities are limited to collecting charitable donations investing the funds to earn income and using the foundations income and capital to make donations to other qualified donees

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$3k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$187k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$348k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$500k
C$33,333
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$841k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QEII FoundationC$500,000
IWK FoundationC$217,723
Bonny Lea FarmsC$80,000
Ronald MacDonald HouseC$50,000
Kids Help PhoneC$48,888
Dartmouth General HospitalC$37,500
Brigadoon VillageC$33,333
Habitat for HumanityC$25,000
Slow Motion Film FestivalC$20,000
Northwood FoundationC$12,500
The Tema FoundationC$10,000
Turkey ClubC$1,500
Bryony HouseC$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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.7M · 25 repeat orgsC$377k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
17

Total granted

C$5.7M
C$281k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+51%

Still filing today

88%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$96k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • DU
    Dalhousie University
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$1.7M · revenue +41%
  • QF
    QEII FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +20%
  • IF
    IWK Foundation
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$665k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • HR
    HALIFAX REGFIONAL POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue +130%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HALIFAX
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue -15%
  • NH
    NS HIGHLAND VILLAGE SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k · revenue +58%

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
Queen Elizabeth Ii Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.

The QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation continues to raise and grant funds primarily for the benefit of the QEII Health Sciences Centre (part of Nova Scotia Health Authority) to support patient care research and education. The…

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2
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
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3
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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4
The Maritime Heart Center

The Maritime Heart Center is a non-profit organization that was incorporated in 1977 under the Nova Scotia Societies Act.Its mandate is to provide world class care to patients in the Maritimes with cardiovascular disease and to be an…

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5
North Shore Health Research Foundation

The charity funded various health care research projects.

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6
Nova Scotia Community College Foundation

NSCC Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the NSCC supporting the College's vision and mission to transform Nova Scotia one learner at a time build Nova Scotia's economy and quality of life through education and innovation and promise to…

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7
The Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation

The Foundation raises funds to meet the capital (equipment and infrastructure) research educational and programming needs of the Janeway Children's Hospital in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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8
Norfolk General Hospital Foundation

Norfolk General Hospital Foundation is a public foundation which receives and maintains funds to use and apply from time to time on all or part of the capital or income therefrom the benefit of Norfolk General Hospital's medical…

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9
The Windsor Foundation

The windsor foundation has two key areas of interest in the maritime provinces: support for programs projects and initiatives in the general community which provide services to or benefits for the disadvantaged or vulnerable and for those…

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10
Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation

Coastal Action established in December 1993 is a charitable organization that addresses environmental concerns throughout the South Shore region of Nova Scotia and beyond. Our goal is to promote the restoration enhancement and conservation…

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11
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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12
Nova Scotia Nature Trust

Programs designed to: (1) educate and encourage landowners to preserve land in Nova Scotia and to build awareness of land conservation and (2) provide permanent conservation and stewardship of ecologically significant natural landscape.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ymca of Greater Halifax/Dartmouth and the most unlike its peers is Roots of Empathy. 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

46 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. 46 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/46
Grantees still filing
32/46
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDalhousie University — C$1,666,666 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetQEII FOUNDATION — C$1,050,000 over 2y, 8.1% of budgetIWK Foundation — C$664,524 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetThe Discovery Centre — C$333,334 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS-HAITI EARTHQUAKE — C$170,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$166,666 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBONNY LEA FARM — C$160,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetMOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY — C$151,666 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTEMA FOUNDATION — C$125,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetKids Help Phone — C$102,222 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHALIFAX REGFIONAL POLICE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHospice Halifax — C$80,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCHARLIE'S FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetTEMA FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCatapult Leadership Society — C$50,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S WISH FOUNDTION — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBrigadoon Village — C$37,873 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDartmouth General Hospital — C$37,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSlow Motion Film Festival — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNS HIGHLAND VILLAGE SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDasc Industries — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetArmy Museum Halifax Citadel — C$20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetPhoenix Youth Programs — C$17,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNorthwood Foundation — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOTS OF EMPATHY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELTER NOVA SCOTIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStreet Connection (Bread of Life Ministries) — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetATLANTIC JEWISH COUNCIL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCamp Triumph — C$6,222 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTS & CHILDREN TOGETHER ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCANADIAN MARITIME HERITAGE FOUND — C$5,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCamp Courage — C$5,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTURKEY CLUB — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNS Association for Community Living — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetABOUT FACE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMacPhee Centre for Creative Learning — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBryony House — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWard 5 Breakfast Program — C$791 over 2y, 0.1% 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…United Way Maritimes/…J and W Murphy Founda…The Community Foundat…Sisters of Charity Mo…The Windsor FoundationHalifax Youth Foundat…The Spatz FoundationThe Medavie Foundatio…Flemming Charitable F…Doane Grant Thornton …The Wadih M. Fares Fa…
River Philip FoundationNS24.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: River Philip Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · J and W Murphy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · The Windsor Foundation · Halifax Youth Foundation · The Spatz Foundation · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · Flemming Charitable Foundation · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · 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 47 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 840346043:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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