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Halifax, NS · Charitable organization

Dalhousie University

DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY provides undergraduate graduate and professional post-secondary education education to approximately 21 000 full and part time students.

C$3k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.8B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIONC$1,000
ALS SOCIETY OF NB AND NSC$1,000
NB SOCIAL PEDIATRICSC$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.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5k · 3 repeat orgsC$44k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
11

Total granted

C$5k
C$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION
    3× · 2018–2023 · C$2k · revenue ×325
  • CM
    CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2k · revenue +36%
  • NS
    NB SOCIAL PEDIATRICS
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$750 · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • DC
    Discovery Centre
    one grant, 2018 · C$35k · revenue -38%
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue -19%
  • IF
    IWK Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k · revenue +108%

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
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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3
North Shore Health Research Foundation

The charity funded various health care research projects.

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4
Saint John Regional Hospital Foundation Inc.

The SJRH Foundation raises funds to support excellence and innovation in healthcare through priority projects in support of the Saint John Regional Hospital as well as mental health projects in research education and community services in…

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5
Science Atlantic

Coordinate conferences for post-secondary students to present research - coordinate lecture tours of scientists in atlantic canada - present award for outstanding science communication and research to students - facilitate meetings of…

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6
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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7
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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8
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
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9
Bluewater Health Foundation

Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs…

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10
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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11
Prince County Hospital Foundation Inc.

The prince county hospital foundation raises funds to purchase medical equipment and technology for the benefit of prince county hospital summerside pe. the prince county hospital is operated by health pei (government of prince edward…

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12
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes

United Way of Halifax Region invests in community development and initiatives to build our extraordinary community as a leader and facilitator. We create relationships establish networks build on individual strengths and work to ensure…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia and the most unlike its peers is St. Matthew's United Church. 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

15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
8/15
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 budgetDiscovery Centre — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$2,542 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIWK Foundation — C$2,365 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION — C$2,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY CANADA — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF NB AND NS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNB SOCIAL PEDIATRICS — C$750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt.Matthew's United Church — C$590 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDalhousie Medical Research Foundation — C$560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia — C$243 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LEGAL EDUCATION AND ACTION FUND — C$223 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE SOCIETY OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP GEDDIE OPERATIONS — C$69 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.

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/…The Community Foundat…Sisters of Charity Mo…The Medavie Foundatio…RCMP Veterans' Associ…J and W Murphy Founda…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …The United Church of …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Aqueduct FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS12.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · RCMP Veterans' Association Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 15 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Source object 886806561:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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