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Halifax, NS · Charitable organization

First Baptist Church

Liturgical servies such as sunday worship weddings funerals and memorial services and the rites of baptism and communion; religious education for children youth and adults; pastoral care for people in homes hospitals seniors' housing and nursing homes; chaplaincy services to university students and hospitals; social outreach for…

C$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$11k
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$10k14 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$11k
C$800
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$6.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIESC$11,300
CANADIAN ASSOCIATION FOR BAPTIST FREEDOMC$4,000
ACADIA UNIVERSITYC$2,351
CDN BAPTIST MINISTRIES / SHARING WAYC$1,751
NORTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTREC$1,738
SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA (SHELTER NOVA SCOTIA)C$1,528
WARD5C$1,000
THE LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL YOUTH PROJECT SOCIETYC$800
OTC COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONC$745
ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETYC$500
PHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAMSC$500
COMMUNITY CARE NETWORK SOCIETY (PARKER ST. FOOD BANK)C$500
METRO FOOD BANK SOCIETY - NOVA SCOTIAC$311
PRISON FELLOWSHIPC$250
CAREGIVERS NOVA SCOTIAC$50
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$239k · 24 repeat orgsC$22k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
9

Total granted

C$239k
C$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+20%

Still filing today

96%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • CB
    CDN Baptist Ministries / Sharing Way
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$32k · revenue +14%
  • BO
    BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$28k · revenue +12%
  • AD
    ACADIA DIVINITY COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$27k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • AD
    ANGLICAN DIOCESE OF NS
    one grant, 2022 · C$8k · revenue +14%
  • ST
    St. Thomas Baptist Church
    one grant, 2017 · C$6k · revenue +20%
  • UU
    Universal Unitarian Church of Halifaxgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k · revenue +65%

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
Community Justice Society-Halifax Region

Restorative justice programming provides youth and adults with an alternative to the criminal justice system other inclusive programs include: stoplift options to anger (o2a) the hive girls group restorative options for youth in care…

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2
Nova Scotia Health Authority (Nsha)

The nova scotia health authority delivers inpatient and outpatient health care services to nova scotians at various hosptals clinics and health centres throughout the province of nova scotia. services provided include acute care mental…

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3
South Shore Community Justice Society

South shore community justice provides programs for youth and adults in conflict with the law. the nova scotia restorative justice program is administered across lunenburg and queens counties.

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4
Services and Housing in the Province (Ship)

Services and Housing In the Province (SHIP) is a community based agency providing a spectrum of low to high intensity housing and support services through a variety of programs. Support services include supportive counselling intensive…

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5
Cape Breton Community Housing Association

Residential program - to provide quality based support and outreach programs for mental health consumers in a non-institutional environment. homeless shelter - to provide emergency shelter for transient and homeless adult males and…

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6
The John Howard Society of Nova Scotia

Effective just and humane responses to the cause and consequences of crime in the most practical ways possible we respond to the changing needs of criminalized people to help them access the mental

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7
New Start Society

Provision of counseling services for individuals and groups within the violence provention sector of halifax regional municipality volunteer counseling program for qualified practitioners to co-facilitate group counselling. (2 volunteers…

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8
The Marguerite Centre Society of Nova Scotia

The marguerite centre is a 11 bed long-term residential facility for women in recovery from addictions and abuse. the marguerite centre believes in the right for women to recover from their addictions in a safe residential setting where…

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9
Metro Non-Profit Housing Association

Metro non profit housing association (operating as welcome housing) is a halifax & dartmouth based organization who’s mission is to help individuals who have become or are at risk of becoming homeless. their mission is to assist low income…

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10
The John Howard Society of Newfoundland and Labrador Inc.

The John Howard Society of NL is a volunteer community based organization that works to reduce criminal activity by providing opportunities for the rehabilitation of offenders and advocates for reform through successful program…

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11
Canadian Mental Health Association - North Bay and District

Mental health case management addictions treatment developmental peer support and psychosocial family programs employment centre mental health and law programs housing program properties

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12
Harvest House Atlantic Inc.

Harvest House Atlantic was established in 1999 and continues to support women and men in the Greater Moncton Area who find themselves homeless struggling with substance abuse struggling with mental health or seeking new opportunities to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Laing House Association and the most unlike its peers is Dalhousie University. 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

35 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. 35 of the 36 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
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 budgetCDN Baptist Ministries / Sharing Way — C$31,670 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES — C$28,397 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetCANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF BAPTIST FREEDOM — C$28,000 over 7y, 71% of budgetACADIA DIVINITY COLLEGE — C$27,036 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHalifax Community Chaplaincy Society — C$23,687 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetHRUBA /HRUBA HOME MISSIONS — C$14,081 over 4y, 12% of budgetNORTH END COMMUNTIY HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$10,537 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetParker St. Food & Furniture Bank — C$10,200 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL YOUTH PROJECT SOCIETY — C$8,652 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetANGLICAN DIOCESE OF NS — C$8,450 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWARD5 — C$8,260 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHalifax Hospital Chaplaincy — C$7,376 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSt. Thomas Baptist Church — C$6,050 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCoverdale Courtwork Society — C$5,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetMETRO CARE AND SHARE SOCIETY — C$4,929 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetConvention of Atlantic Baptist churches — C$4,392 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUniversal Unitarian Church of Halifax — C$3,600 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA (SHELTER NOVA SCOTIA) — C$3,428 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBayside Baptist Youth Camp — C$2,456 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRUNSWICK STREET MISSION — C$2,325 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFeed Nova Scotia — C$1,992 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPRISON FELLOWSHIP (#12) — C$1,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBAYER'S/WESTWOOD FAMILY RESOURCE — C$1,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDALHOUSE UNIVERSITY — C$1,020 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAMS — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATION OF BLACK SOCIAL WORKERS — C$750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOTC COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$745 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSoul's Harbour Rescue Mission — C$550 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAING HOUSE — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConsilio Prision Ministry — C$358 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLaing House — C$300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPhoenix House — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCircles of Support & Accountability — C$125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAREGIVERS NOVA SCOTIA — C$50 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…Halifax Association f…Halifax Youth Foundat…Flemming Charitable F…J and W Murphy Founda…Sisters of Charity - …Mental Health Foundat…The Windsor FoundationBayers Road United Ba…Bethany United Church
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS19.2× affinity20 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 · Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor · Halifax Youth Foundation · Flemming Charitable Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement Centre · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · The Windsor Foundation · Bayers Road United Baptist Church · Bethany United Church

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 36 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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 107383887:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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