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Stellarton, NS · Private foundation

D.R. Sobey Foundation

The foundation made donations to qualified donees during the year.

C$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$355k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$92k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$381k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$605k
C$15,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATIONC$355,366
NSCC FOUNDATIONC$250,000
DOLLAR A DAYC$150,000
COUNCIL FOR CDN AMERICA RELATIONSHIPC$130,521
VENTURE FOR CANADIAN FELLOWSHIP INSITUTEC$50,000
JEAN PAUL RIOPELLE FOUNDATIONC$50,000
ART CANADA INSITUTEC$25,000
WOODLAWN CULTURAL CENTREC$15,000
RIVERVIEW HOME VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATIONC$12,000
SUMMER STREET INDUSTRIESC$10,000
PICTOU COUNTY CHRISTMAS FUNDC$10,000
LITTLE HARBOUR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHC$10,000
LITTLE HARBOUR FIRE DEPARTMENTC$10,000
UNITED WAY OF PICTOU COUNTYC$5,000
EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF THE MARITIMESC$5,000
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12M · 31 repeat orgsC$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
30

Total granted

C$12M
C$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+22%

Still filing today

90%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$536k 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

  • NS
    Nova Scotia Community College
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$4.0M · revenue +26%
  • QH
    QEII HEALTH FOUNDATION SURGICAL ROBOTICS PROGRAM
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$1.0M · revenue +42%
  • NF
    NSCC FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$700k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION - THE METgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$2.5M · revenue +45%
  • GD
    GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND
    one grant, 2019 · C$237k
  • TS
    THE SOBEY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$164k · revenue +36%

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
Tate Canada Foundation

Tate canada foundation advances the public's knowledge and appreciation of canadian artwork both inside and outside canada through public art exhibitions presentations educational artistic programs and art displays.

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2
Visual Arts Nova Scotia

to foster the development awareness and understanding of the visual arts in Nova Scotia to encourage the production exhibition and appreciation of works by nova scotia's visual artists; and to speak for visual artists in areas of common…

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3
The Canadian Art Foundation
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4
New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts Inc/Fondation Des Arts Du Nouveau Brunswick Inc

Foundation Prizes: Arts and Cultural Endowment Incentives Program for NB; Foundation Prizes and Awards. NBFA continues to collaborate and expand the success of major arts and heritage not-for-profit organizations in New Brunswick.

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5
Nova Scotia Masterworks Awards Foundation
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6
Canada Council for the Arts Conseil Des Arts Du Canada

The Canada Council for the Arts contributes to the vibrancy of a creative and diverse arts and literary scene and supports its presence across Canada and around the world. The Council is Canada’s public arts funder with a mandate to…

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7
Ocad University Foundation
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8
Art Dealers Association of Canada Foundation / Fondation de l'Association des marchands d'art du Canada

Its purpose is to promote canadian viusal arts; to facilitate the exposure of canadian art on an international level and provide improved documentation and educational opportunities to the public on the visual arts.

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9
Shorefast Foundation

Shorefast’s mission is to build economic and cultural resilience on Fogo Island and to help make it possible for local communities to thrive in the global economy. Shorefast’s suite of charitable programs on Fogo Island comprise a holistic…

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10
The Bermudiana Foundation of Canada

To search for works of art by Canadian artists who have created art with a Bermuda theme locate these works and purchase them. To support Canadian university student(s) in an art cataloging internship program related to Bermuda.

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11
The Hnatyshyn Foundation - La Fondation Hnatyshyn

The foundation's objectives are to promote excellence in the arts in canada by awarding study grants prizes and residencies to emerging developing and mid-career artists and curators. the foundation provided program grants and awards…

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12
Cape Breton University

Advancement of education degree and diploma programs. conduct research: natural science & engineering social sciences & humanities canadian foundation for innovation information technology heath petroleum. provide other program: cultural…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcmichael Canadian Art Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Little Harbour Fire Department. 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

52 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. 52 of the 66 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
32/52
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 budgetNova Scotia Community College — C$4,013,780 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION - THE MET — C$2,500,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetTHE SOBEY ART FOUNDATION — C$1,358,750 over 2y, 42% of budgetQEII HEALTH FOUNDATION SURGICAL ROBOTICS PROGRAM — C$1,000,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNSCC FOUNDATION — C$700,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$550,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDOLLAR A DAY — C$512,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITTY — C$375,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$355,366 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetNational Art Gallery of Canada — C$325,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY — C$300,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURE FOR CANADIAN FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE — C$222,000 over 4y, 86% of budgetRIDEAU HALL FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SOBEY FOUNDATION — C$164,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJEAN PAUL RIOPELLE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetIMAGINENATIVE — C$86,400 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSummer Street Industries — C$70,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetFraser Recovery Program — C$65,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetLITTLE HARBOUR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$60,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetSalvation Army — C$60,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetInuit Art Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetLahey Clinic — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetIWK Health Centre Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAUDAIN ART MUSEUM — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPICTOU COUNTY CHRISTMAS FUND — C$45,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetSHARON ST. JOHN UNITED CHURCH — C$40,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PICTOU COUNTY — C$34,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetTORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetDalhousie Medical Research — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetART CANADA INSITUTE — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA SPCA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE PALLATIVE CARE CAPE BRETON — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetJunior Achievement of Nova Scotia — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRIVERVIEW HOME VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION — C$17,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetWOODLAWN CULTURAL CENTRE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMontreal Museum of Fine Arts — C$13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrist Anglican Church — C$12,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetFirst Presbyterian Church — C$12,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetOUR LADY OF LOURDES CHURCH — C$12,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetRED CROSS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF THE MARITIMES — C$10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetART GALLERY AT HARBOURFRONT — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLITTLE HARBOUR FIRE DEPARTMENT — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetThe Arthritis Society — C$7,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSociety of Atlantic Heroes — C$5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TORONTO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Nova Scotia Community College ↗
  • Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION - THE MET ↗
  • Who funds THE SOBEY ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds QEII HEALTH FOUNDATION SURGICAL ROBOTICS PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds NSCC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DOLLAR A DAY ↗
  • Who funds ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITTY ↗
  • Who funds MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Art Gallery of Canada ↗
  • Who funds QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VENTURE FOR CANADIAN FELLOWSHIP INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds RIDEAU HALL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE SOBEY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JEAN PAUL RIOPELLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds IMAGINENATIVE ↗
  • Who funds Summer Street Industries ↗
  • Who funds Fraser Recovery Program ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE HARBOUR PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds Salvation Army ↗
  • Who funds Inuit Art Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Lahey Clinic ↗
  • Who funds IWK Health Centre Foundation ↗
  • Who funds AUDAIN ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds PICTOU COUNTY CHRISTMAS FUND ↗
  • Who funds SHARON ST. JOHN UNITED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF PICTOU COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO BIENNIAL OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Dalhousie Medical Research ↗
  • Who funds ART CANADA INSITUTE ↗

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.

United Way Maritimes/…J and W Murphy Founda…The Community Foundat…River Philip Foundati…The David and Faye So…Burgundy Legacy Found…The Ouellette Family …Audain FoundationUnited Way of Colches…The Windsor FoundationUnited Way of Cape Br…Sobey MacGregor Found…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS13.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · J and W Murphy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · River Philip Foundation · The David and Faye Sobey Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · The Ouellette Family Foundation · Audain Foundation · United Way of Colchester County · The Windsor Foundation · United Way of Cape Breton County · Sobey MacGregor 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 66 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 892553967:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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