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Halifax, NS · Private foundation

GJM Charitable Trust

Social services by contributing financial support to charitable organizations.

C$67k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$37k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$30k
C$3,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAMC$10,000
QE2 FOUNDATIONC$10,000
LAING HOUSE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITYC$6,000
IWK FOUNDATIONC$5,000
GATEWAY COMMUNITY CHURCHC$4,000
SHELTER NOVA SCOTIAC$3,500
PARKER STREET FOOD & FURNITURE BANKC$3,500
MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIAC$3,500
FEED NOVA SCOTIAC$3,500
FAMILY SOS ASSOCIATIONC$3,000
HALIFAX REFUGEE CLINICC$2,755
FREEDOM FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIAC$2,500
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$155k · 12 repeat orgsC$22k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

C$155k
C$4k

Still filing today

100%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$18k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • QF
    QE2 FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$20k · revenue +11%
  • MA
    MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$18k · revenue +15%
  • PY
    PHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAM
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$15k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k
  • KC
    KIDSPORT CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · 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 Health Research Foundation
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2
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society

The community foundation of nova scotia is a public foundation created by and for the people of nova scotia. we work with private donors communities and charitable organizations to stimulate charitable giving establish permanent endowment…

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3
Hope for Mental Health Society

The society's mission is to make a positive difference in the lives if people families and communities in nova scotia affected by schizophrenia psychosis bipolar and all related illnesses.

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4
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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5
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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6
Halifax Youth Foundation

Providing funding to agencies carrying out programs for the benefit of children and youth in nova scotia that are consistent with the objects of the foundation.

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7
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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8
Norfolk General Hospital Foundation

Norfolk General Hospital Foundation is a public foundation which receives and maintains funds to use and apply from time to time on all or part of the capital or income therefrom the benefit of Norfolk General Hospital's medical…

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9
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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10
Halifax Transition House Association

The charity provided temporary emergency shelter for more than 250 women and families leaving situations of intimate partner violence (IPV) at the Bryony House Shelter. Programs offered at the shelter consisted of one-on-one supportive…

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11
Halifax Foundation

Providing funding for civic projects to help protect and preserve the historic cultural and social aspects of the halifax regional municipality

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12
Nova Scotia Community College Foundation

NSCC Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the NSCC supporting the College's vision and mission to transform Nova Scotia one learner at a time build Nova Scotia's economy and quality of life through education and innovation and promise to…

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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 Friends for Zambia Society. 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. 15 of the 17 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLAING HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$41,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetQE2 FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY — C$18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAM — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTER NOVA SCOTIA — C$11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPARKER STREET FOOD & FURNITURE BANK — C$10,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAM — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGATEWAY COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$8,305 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetFEED NOVA SCOTIA — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOR ZAMBIA SOCIETY — C$5,200 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetFREEDOM FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIWK FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALIFAX REFUGEE CLINIC — C$4,766 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SOS ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Sisters of Charity Mo…The Community Foundat…J and W Murphy Founda…United Way Maritimes/…The Windsor FoundationUniversalist Unitaria…First Baptist ChurchThe Wadih M. Fares Fa…Black Family Foundati…BenefAction FoundationDoane Grant Thornton …Sisters of Charity - …
Sisters of Charity Mount Saint VincentNS12.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · J and W Murphy Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Windsor Foundation · Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax · First Baptist Church · The Wadih M. Fares Family Foundation · Black Family Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement Centre

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 17 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 715113536:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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