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Halifax, NS · Private foundation

Craig Foundation

1.) donations to organizations to encourage advance and promote public awareness and appreciation for the visual and performing arts.

C$741k
Granted FY2024still arriving
46
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$303k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k34 grants · C$158k
  • C$10k–50k9 grants · C$171k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$110k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$303k
C$5,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUTISM NOVA SCOTIAC$302,736
CAPELLA REGALISC$60,000
TWO PLANKS AND A PASSION - COASTAL ART ASSOCIATIONC$50,000
SMILE CANADAC$25,000
CATAPULT LEADERSHIP SOCIETYC$25,000
NATIONALS ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
NEPTUNE THEATREC$25,000
SYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIAC$25,000
CECEILIA CONCERTSC$15,000
EASTER FRONT THEATREC$10,500
UPSTREAM MUSIC ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
DARTMOUTH ADULT SERVICE CENTREC$10,000
KINETIC STUDIO SOCIETYC$9,000
DANCE NOVA SCOTIAC$8,000
SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSICC$7,500
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.1M · 49 repeat orgsC$167k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

49 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
16

Total granted

C$7.1M
C$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+1%

Still filing today

94%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$49k 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

  • AN
    Autism Nova Scotia
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4.4M · revenue +301% · 57% of their budget
  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$255k · revenue +36%
  • TP
    TWO PLANKS AND A PASSION - COASTAL ART ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$205k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • MC
    MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART MUSEUM
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue -11%
  • BL
    Black Loyalist Heritage Society
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +1%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k

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
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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2
The Nova Scotia Youth Orchestra

The Nova Scotia youth Orchestra studies, rehearses and performs symphonic repertoire and chamber music. NYSO holds a 10 day summer work shop for intense orchestral training prior to season of 12 weekend sessions with 6-8 concerts per…

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3
Lunenburg School of the Arts

Lunenburg school of the arts offers workshops led by professional art educators and working artists

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4
Pacific Coast Stage Company

Nanaimo fringe festival public workshops

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5
The Tir-Na-Nog Theatre School Society

Theatre arts courses & workshops live theatre events guest artists in concert & performance

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6
Halifax Summer Opera Festival Association
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7
Azimuth Theatre Association

Azimuth Theatre Association produces an annual season of professional theatre including new works a movement arts festival the Expanse Festival supports local emerging companies through the Emerging Company Showcase and offers training…

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8
Crimson Coast Dance Society

Provides modern and contemporary dance programs workshops festivals and performances

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9
The Sunshine Coast Dance Society

Dance scholarships - dance residency & workshops - presentation of professional/semi-professional dance

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10
Theatre Ontario

Youth theatre and professional theatre training programs, summer courses for adults and youth, professional development seminars, annual festival, showcases for emerging artists, and workshops for community theatres.

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11
Highland Arts Theatre Association

To advance the public's appreciation of the arts through production and presentation of high-quality artisric performances on cape breton island to enhance the performing arts within the arts industry for the benefit of the public-…

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12
Lunenburg Academy of Music Performance

Rossini opera festival nova scotia operates the lunenburg academy of music performance (lamp) a center for advanced studies of music interpretation and performance located in the 1895 lunenburg academy. this non-academic training school…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Theatre Nova Scotia and the most unlike its peers is Acadia University. 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

64 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. 64 of the 70 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
41/64
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 budgetAutism Nova Scotia — C$4,408,865 over 8y, 57% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$255,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$205,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTWO PLANKS AND A PASSION - COASTAL ART ASSOCIATION — C$205,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetNEPTUNE THEATRE — C$200,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$175,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSymphony Nova Scotia — C$175,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCATAPULT LEADERSHIP SOCIETY — C$160,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetTHEATRE NOVA SCOTIA (INCLUDES THEATRE BADDECK) — C$154,500 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetCAPELLA REGALIS — C$70,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTHE SHIPS COMPANY THEATRE SOCIETY — C$65,500 over 8y, 8.3% of budget2B THEATRE CO. — C$50,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetZUPPA THEATRE — C$50,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetCECEILIA CONCERTS — C$50,000 over 8y, 5.9% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA TALENT TRUST — C$50,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetMOCEAN DANCE — C$47,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetSHAKESPEARE BY THE SEA — C$45,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetVisual Arts NS — C$45,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetSCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC — C$44,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetUPSTREAM MUSIC ASSOCIATION — C$43,500 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetMUSIQUE ROYALE — C$42,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetHalifax Dance Association — C$40,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetEASTER FRONT THEATRE — C$35,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetFestival Antigonish — C$35,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetDANCE NOVA SCOTIA — C$32,000 over 7y, 5.7% of budgetPLAYWRIGHTS ATLANTIC RESOURCE CENTRE — C$31,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetEASTERN SEALS NS — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMASTERWORKS ARTS AWARD FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetEYE LEVEL GALLERY SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetSMILE CANADA — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART MUSEUM — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLEAVE OUT VIOLENCE LOVE"" — C$25,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetBlack Loyalist Heritage Society — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLIVE ART DANCE — C$24,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetDEBUT ATLANTIC SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetNSCAD UNIVERSITY — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJAZZ EAST RISING ASSOCIATION — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLAING HOUSE — C$20,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetKINETIC STUDIO SOCIETY — C$19,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetATLANTIC FLAMENCO PRODUCTIONS SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetMiriam Foundation — C$14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLE CONSEIL DES ARTS CHETICAMP — C$11,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetLIVE BAIT THEATRE — C$10,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMount Saint Vincent University — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE BADDECK SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetDARTMOUTH ADULT SERVICE CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetXARA CHORAL THEATRE — C$7,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetMARITIME CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.2% 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 Autism Nova Scotia ↗
  • Who funds DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TWO PLANKS AND A PASSION - COASTAL ART ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NEPTUNE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds ACADIA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Symphony Nova Scotia ↗
  • Who funds CATAPULT LEADERSHIP SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA (INCLUDES THEATRE BADDECK) ↗
  • Who funds CAPELLA REGALIS ↗
  • Who funds THE SHIPS COMPANY THEATRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds 2B THEATRE CO. ↗
  • Who funds ZUPPA THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds CECEILIA CONCERTS ↗
  • Who funds NOVA SCOTIA TALENT TRUST ↗
  • Who funds MOCEAN DANCE ↗
  • Who funds SHAKESPEARE BY THE SEA ↗
  • Who funds Visual Arts NS ↗
  • Who funds SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds UPSTREAM MUSIC ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSIQUE ROYALE ↗
  • Who funds Halifax Dance Association ↗
  • Who funds EASTER FRONT THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds Festival Antigonish ↗
  • Who funds DANCE NOVA SCOTIA ↗
  • Who funds PLAYWRIGHTS ATLANTIC RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds EASTERN SEALS NS ↗
  • Who funds MASTERWORKS ARTS AWARD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EYE LEVEL GALLERY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SMILE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds LEAVE OUT VIOLENCE LOVE"" ↗
  • Who funds Black Loyalist Heritage Society ↗
  • Who funds LIVE ART DANCE ↗
  • Who funds DEBUT ATLANTIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NSCAD UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds JAZZ EAST RISING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds LAING HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds KINETIC STUDIO 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…River Philip Foundati…Black Family Foundati…United Way Maritimes/…The Windsor FoundationHalifax Youth Foundat…Mental Health Foundat…The Council for Busin…Walker Wood FoundationLeanne Children's Fou…The George W. Wilson …
J and W Murphy FoundationNS28.8× affinity26 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 · River Philip Foundation · Black Family Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Windsor Foundation · Halifax Youth Foundation · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · The Council for Business and the Arts in Canada · Walker Wood Foundation · Leanne Children's Foundation · The George W. Wilson and Teresa Madelyn (Merriam) Wilson 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 70 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 advancing education.

Source object 892904566:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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