Halifax, NS · Private foundation
Donovan Family Foundation Incorporated
The charity is a private foundation that makes gifts to other qualified donees allowing the donees to carry out their charitable activities.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$6k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SPIRITUAL SCIENCE FELLOWSHIP | C$75,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| NOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST | C$1,000 |
| AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL | C$480 |
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.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k went to new ones.
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
- TSTHE SPIRITUAL SCIENCE FELLOWSHIP3× · 2017–2024 · C$150k · revenue -49% · 51% of their budget
- IIInternational Institute of Integral Human Sciences2× · 2017–2023 · C$103k · revenue -79% · 36% of their budget
- AIAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL3× · 2017–2024 · C$1k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- HAHAWTHORNE ARTS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue -95% · 100% of their budget
- JAJunior Acheivement of Nova Scotiaone grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue -26%
- SHSPENCER HOUSE SENIORS CENTREgraduatedone grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +110%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
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…
The nova scotia talent trust offers scholarships to nova scotians studying in the arts
conducts research delivers educational programs and publishes materials that advance the public appreciation of and strengthen protections for Nova Scotias built heritage; provides resources that assist the stewards of heritage buildings…
Nature Nova Scotia (also known as the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) exists to aid in the communication and cooperation among naturalists natural history societies and other nature-focused groups in Nova Scotia. We profile and…
Preparation and presentation of papers on nova scotia history. publication of periodicals on nova scotia history
The nova scotia trails federation (ns trails) provides services and support for the planning maintenance management and use of recreational trails in nova scotia. our objective are to encourage active outdoor lifestyles local economic…
The nova scotia talent trust foundation was established to manage funds and provide support (income on funds held) to the nova scotia talent trust. 2012 was the founding year and there was negligible income distribute; a transfer of funds…
Genealogical and historical research. education with website publications library workshops and lectures.
Provide an opportunity for young nova scotians between the ages of 14 and 25 to develop physically mentally and spiritually through flexible balanced voluntary and non-competitive program of recreational activities which are designed to…
Provides support of seamanship education through providing scholarships to training programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society and the most unlike its peers is Spencer House Seniors Centre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE SPIRITUAL SCIENCE FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds International Institute of Integral Human Sciences ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORNE ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Junior Acheivement of Nova Scotia ↗
- Who funds SPENCER HOUSE SENIORS CENTRE ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.