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Halifax, NS · Private foundation

Da Stinson Foundation

Advancement of health care relief of poverty advancement of education advancement of religion advancement of social justice

C$53k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADAC$5,500
IWK FOUNDATIONC$5,500
BRUNSWICK STREET MISSIONC$5,500
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$5,500
UNITED WAYC$5,500
KAIROSC$5,500
UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIOC$5,500
ST MATTHEW'S UNITED CHURCHC$5,500
HALIFAX REFUGEE CLINICC$2,800
QEII FOUNDATIONC$2,800
ATLANTIC SCHOOL OF THEOLOGYC$2,800
FRIENDS OF BROADVIEWC$600
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$329k · 14 repeat orgsC$0 to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
0

Total granted

C$329k
C$0

Still filing today

93%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • K
    KAIROS
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$14k · revenue +22%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$14k · revenue +29%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$13k · revenue ×31

Funded once

    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
    Saint Mary's University

    Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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    2
    Law Foundation of Nova Scotia Scholarship Fund

    Education - specifically awarding scholarships for the dalhousie university law school

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    3
    Universite De Moncton

    Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche

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    4
    University of Prince Edward Island

    Post-Secondary Education

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    5
    Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

    The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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    6
    University of New Brunswick

    To provide the highest possible quality of instruction for both undergraduate and graduate students To achieve national and in select areas international recognition for research programs To operate a scholarship and bursary program for…

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    7
    Brock University

    Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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    8
    The University of Manitoba

    The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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    9
    University of Saskatchewan

    The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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    10
    Bishop's University Foundation

    The bishop's university foundation assists the bishop's university by providing financial support for its educational athletics scholarships and research programs

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    11
    University of British Columbia

    Post Secondary Education & Research

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    12
    Universite Du Quebec

    Enseignement et recherche universitaire

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    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes and the most unlike its peers is Brunswick Street Mission. 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

    13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
    2
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    13/13
    Grantees still filing
    9/13
    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 budgetSt. Matthew's United Church — C$218,500 over 7y, 62% of budgetKAIROS — C$13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$13,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$12,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetIWK FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHALIFAX REFUGEE CLINIC — C$6,800 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBRUNSWICK STREET MISSION — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQEII FOUNDATION — C$6,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY — C$5,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF BROADVIEW — C$2,350 over 8y, 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 St. Matthew's United Church ↗
    • Who funds KAIROS ↗
    • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO ↗
    • Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
    • Who funds IWK FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA ↗
    • Who funds HALIFAX REFUGEE CLINIC ↗
    • Who funds BRUNSWICK STREET MISSION ↗
    • Who funds DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ↗
    • Who funds QEII FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds DALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds ATLANTIC SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY ↗
    • Who funds FRIENDS OF BROADVIEW ↗

    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.

    Sisters of Charity Mo…United Way Maritimes/…J and W Murphy Founda…The Community Foundat…The United Church of …Sisters of Charity - …Black Family Foundati…BenefAction FoundationAqueduct FoundationThe United Church of …Charitable Gift Funds…Strategic Charitable …
    Sisters of Charity Mount Saint VincentNS11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · J and W Murphy Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du Canada · Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement Centre · Black Family Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The United Church of Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Strategic Charitable Giving 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 14 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 841861305:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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