Dartmouth, NS · Charitable organization
Feed Nova Scotia Society
FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (metro food bank society - nova scotia) operating as feed nova scotia is a charitable organization whose mission is to partnere to to create systemic changes while while responding to the immediate need for dignified secure and just access to food.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k26 grants · C$128k
- C$10k–50k51 grants · C$1.6M
- C$50k–250k75 grants · C$8.4M
- C$250k+17 grants · C$6.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Beacon House Interfaith Society | C$780,679 |
| Colchester Community Support Society | C$730,584 |
| Pictou County (East) Food Bank | C$667,560 |
| Salvation Army Family Services (Halifax) | C$427,332 |
| Halifax West Ecumenical Food Bank | C$392,351 |
| Yarmouth Food Bank Society | C$360,623 |
| Antigonish Community Food Bank | C$349,786 |
| Glace Bay & Area Food Bank | C$322,709 |
| Fundy Interchurch Food Bank | C$319,350 |
| West End Community Food Bank | C$311,368 |
| Salvation Army Family Services (Sydney) | C$310,984 |
| Brunswick Street Mission Food Bank | C$298,633 |
| Christ Church Food Bank | C$294,236 |
| Twelve Baskets Food Bank | C$292,708 |
| Dartmouth North Christian Food Bank | C$282,400 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 1% of grant dollars (C$165k). The 99% that went abroad (C$20M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 99% of all-years giving (C$20M)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
151 repeat relationships — 114 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.9M 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
- BHBeacon House Interfaith Society4× · 2020–2024 · C$877k
- CCColchester Community Support Society5× · 2017–2024 · C$800k
- PCPictou County (East) Food Bank5× · 2017–2024 · C$735k
Funded once
- SASALVATION ARMY - DARTMOUTH COMMUNITY CHURCHone grant, 2021 · C$25k
- EPEast Preston Day Careone grant, 2022 · C$25k
- SASALVATION ARMY TOTALone grant, 2020 · C$20k
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.
Provides food for people in need
Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities
Provide food for needy people in our catchment area. we also give out emergency baskets of food as well s extra food at christmas & for the summer.
To provide food and regular dietary products to the needy.
Local food bank
Food bank
Assist low income families and individuals with food and other supplies.
To provide a 3 day emergency food supply to clients within the arthur community
Providing food to needy families/individuals. we are open weekly for clients to access food and/or contact information to access other community resources. we are entirely staffed by volunteers from surrounding communities.
Food bank
Supplying food to local families and individuals having difficult financial times
Food bank-provide food hampers to clients in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Dartmouth Christian Food Bank Association and the most unlike its peers is 2 Denarii Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
46 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. 46 of the 332 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.
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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 · Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Halifax · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · United Way of Cape Breton County · Campaign for Kids Foundation · Mealshare Aid Foundation · Flemming Charitable Foundation · Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor · Ourhouse Society
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.