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Coldbrook, NS · Private foundation

George F. Wade Foundation

To accept gifts and donations to allow the foundation to make disbursements to registered charities that promote community service social services religious programs welfare of animals and other programs.

C$32k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$822k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Upper room Food BankC$2,000
Valley Regional HospitalC$2,000
St James Anglican ChurchC$2,000
Aylesford & District Lions ClubC$1,500
Aylesford & District Lions ClubC$1,500
Kingston United ChurchC$1,000
Valley Care Pregnancy CentreC$1,000
Stephen Lewis FoundationC$1,000
SPCAC$1,000
Salvation ArmyC$1,000
Open Arms Resource Centre SocietyC$1,000
NS Nature TrustC$1,000
New Covenant Community ChurchC$1,000
Mental Health Foundation of NSC$1,000
Valley HospiceC$1,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$256k · 31 repeat orgsC$14k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
8

Total granted

C$256k
C$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
-29%

Still filing today

84%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$19k · revenue +462%
  • VR
    VALLEY REGIONAL HOSPITAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +52%
  • UR
    UPPER ROOM FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$15k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CROSBIE HOUSE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k · revenue +21%
  • UR
    UPPER ROOM FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k
  • AV
    ANNAPOLIS VALLEY FARMLAND TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k

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
Nova Scotia Salmon Association

Representing the interests of over 25 river associations and their members and the regional council of the atlantic salmon federation. watershed stewardship and innovative aquatic habitat restoration. protecting the fish their native…

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2
Animal Rescue Coalitions Nova Scotia

Rescuing stray unwanted and abandoned & personal surrendered companion animals from the general public animal control & local vets.

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3
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
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4
Rural Communities Foundation of Nova Scotia

Provide grants and donations to programs that help rural communities

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5
Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation

Coastal Action established in December 1993 is a charitable organization that addresses environmental concerns throughout the South Shore region of Nova Scotia and beyond. Our goal is to promote the restoration enhancement and conservation…

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6
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists

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…

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7
Clean Nova Scotia Foundation

Clean provides the knowledge tools and inspiration to encourage individual actions that sum to a positive environmental shift. through partnerships & collaboration clean educates and supports intiatives that foster leaders to strive for…

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8
Disaster Animal Response Team of Nova Scotia Society

Education and awareness of animal welfare including first aid and protection from heat/ticks mobile shelter for animals displaced or rescued in emergency situations

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9
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…

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10
Nova Scotia Trails Federation

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…

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11
The Foundation for Conservation of Atlantic Salmon (Fcas)

The organization assists community groups in the restoration and improved conservation of the atlantic salmon resource in atlantic canada and quebec

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12
Fraser Valley Conservancy

Protecting and preserving land and watercourses that have recognized local and regional ecological value. Promoting facilitating and engaging in land stewardship activities through public events and community outreach. Undertaking research…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed Nova Scotia Society and the most unlike its peers is Acadia 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 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
22/35
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 budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$18,867 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetVALLEY REGIONAL HOSPITAL — C$16,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUPPER ROOM FOOD BANK — C$15,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetOpen Arms Resource Centre Society — C$12,400 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDLY NEIGHBOURS — C$11,600 over 5y, 11% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NS — C$11,400 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetChrysalis House — C$10,600 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE FOR WILDLIFE — C$10,483 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW COVENANT COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$8,800 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetRED CROSS OF CANADA — C$8,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHIS WORD FOR HIS PEOPLE — C$8,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetYouth with a Mission — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAcadia (Bruce Phinney Memorial Scholarship) — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Lewis Foundation — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetValley Care Pregnancy Centre — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetNS Nature Trust — C$8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetEcology Action Centre — C$7,100 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha Ministries Canada — C$7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeed Nova Scotia (Fundy Interchurch Foodbank) — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEco Justice — C$5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKidney Foundation of Canada Atlantic Branch — C$5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKingston United Church — C$4,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE CROSBIE HOUSE SOCIETY — C$3,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVictorian Order of Nurses for Canada - Nova Scotia Branch — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAnnapolis Valley Farmland Trust — C$2,300 over 3y, 10% of budgetSIERRA CLUB CANADA — C$1,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCAMP BRIGADOON — C$1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAV Frugal Mom's Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of the Annapolis Valley — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFly With Me Animal Rescue — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWolfville Inter Church Food Bank — C$850 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPort Williams United Baptist Church — C$800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFSTRA — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGood Shepherd Centres — C$500 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.

  • Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY REGIONAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds UPPER ROOM FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Open Arms Resource Centre Society ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURS ↗
  • Who funds MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NS ↗
  • Who funds Chrysalis House ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR WILDLIFE ↗
  • Who funds NEW COVENANT COMMUNITY CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds RED CROSS OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds HIS WORD FOR HIS PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds Youth with a Mission ↗
  • Who funds Acadia (Bruce Phinney Memorial Scholarship) ↗
  • Who funds Stephen Lewis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Valley Care Pregnancy Centre ↗
  • Who funds NS Nature Trust ↗
  • Who funds Ecology Action Centre ↗
  • Who funds DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Alpha Ministries Canada ↗
  • Who funds Feed Nova Scotia (Fundy Interchurch Foodbank) ↗
  • Who funds Eco Justice ↗
  • Who funds Kidney Foundation of Canada Atlantic Branch ↗
  • Who funds Kingston United Church ↗
  • Who funds THE CROSBIE HOUSE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada - Nova Scotia Branch ↗
  • Who funds Annapolis Valley Farmland Trust ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA CLUB CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CAMP BRIGADOON ↗
  • Who funds AV Frugal Mom's Society ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Annapolis Valley ↗
  • Who funds Fly With Me Animal Rescue ↗
  • Who funds Wolfville Inter Church Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds Port Williams United Baptist Church ↗

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…E K M Health Foundati…14 Wing Combined Char…Doane Grant Thornton …Port Williams Health …Windsor Elms Village …United Way of Colches…J and W Murphy Founda…The Windsor FoundationMargaretville Baptist…Christ Community Chur…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS14.1× affinity14 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 · E K M Health Foundation · 14 Wing Combined Charities · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Port Williams Health Auxiliary · Windsor Elms Village for Continuing Care Society · United Way of Colchester County · J and W Murphy Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · Margaretville Baptist Church · Christ Community Church 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.

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 43 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 861242469:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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