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Halifax, NS · Charitable organization

Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor

Donations given to various organizations to help the poorest of the poor in our community.

C$131k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k17 grants · C$85k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$46k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HALIFAX REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONC$25,000
YWCAC$10,500
NS MOBILE FOOD MARKETC$10,000
BREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES ASSOCIATIONC$8,000
LOVEC$7,500
STEPPING STONEC$7,000
ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETYC$7,000
VEITH HOUSEC$5,000
OPEN DOOR WOMEN'S CARE CENTREC$5,000
NORTH GROVEC$5,000
MAINLINEC$5,000
CHEBUCTO CONNECTIONSC$5,000
BRYONY HOUSEC$5,000
ALICE HOUSEC$5,000
ADSUM ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN & CHILDRENC$5,000
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$824k · 34 repeat orgsC$85k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +85% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
17

Total granted

C$824k
C$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+85%
+48%

Still filing today

91%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k 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

  • HR
    HALIFAX REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$209k · revenue +61%
  • HB
    HOPE BLOOMS
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$38k · revenue +279%
  • NG
    NORTH GROVE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$37k · revenue +87%

Funded once

  • NE
    NORTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH CAREgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue +50%
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2023 · C$8k
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$8k · revenue +87%

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.

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North House

North house provides a wide range of housing and support programs for those who are at risk or in crisis within the communitied or north durham. the programs are aimed at helping low income families and individuals in need of subsidized…

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2
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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3
Threshold Housing Society

The Society continues to provide long-term transitional housing for youth ages 16-25 at risk of becoming homeless. Two housing programs are offered based on the ability of the individual to live independently. A Life Skills component helps…

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4
Hollyburn Community Services Society

North shore youth safe house: 6-bed shelter for homeless youth age 14 - 18 hollyburn hockey heroes: hockey program for at-risk youth on the north shore life success program: transition housing/support services for 6 youth 18 to 24 wired 4…

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5
North Shore Crisis Services Society

Sage House is an 18-bed transition house for women and children fleeing abuse. It provides food clothing referrals and advocacy. Sage Second Stage provides longer term housing for women and children with complex housing needs. The Women's…

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6
Independent Living Nova Scotia Association

transitional and pre-employment programming support services for self managed care shared services programming/housing food insecurity programming peer support events self advocacy support

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7
Ywca Peterborough Haliburton

The ywca operates crossroads and hers two emergency shelters for abused women and their children for safety support counselling and practical help. we provide counselling and transition support for abused women in the rural community and…

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8
Durham Mental Health Services

Durham mental health services provides a range of services to people with serious long standing mental health difficulties. programs include: four residential support houses a case management program community based crisis services court…

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9
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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10
The Laing House Association

The laing house association is a peer support organization for youth and young adults aged 16 to 30 who are living with mental illness. our programs centre on recovery strategies and support for youth. we provide employment services…

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11
Transition House Coalition of Northumberland

Transition House responds directly to homelessness in Northumberland County by providing emergency housing with the goal of moving people to safe accessible affordable housing. Transition House provides transitional housing to singles at…

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12
Durham Youth Services

Durham youth services offers a variety of homelessness prevention rapid rehousing and housing stabilization supports youth aged 16-24 who are at risk of or experencing homelessness. dys prevention programs include family reconnect focussed…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Souls Harbour Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Grace Street-Level Mission. 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

45 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. 45 of the 54 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
35/45
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 budgetHALIFAX REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION — C$209,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE BLOOMS — C$38,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetNORTH GROVE — C$37,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetADSUM ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — C$34,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPARKER STREET FOOD AND FURNITURE BANK — C$28,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVEITH HOUSE — C$28,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$27,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER NOVA SCOTIA — C$25,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAINLINE — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA: SOULS HARBOUR RESCUE MISSION — C$24,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPPING STONE — C$23,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetALCARE PLACE — C$22,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetYWCA — C$21,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE MINISTRIES ASSOCIATION — C$21,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetLOVE — C$20,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHEBUCTO CONNECTIONS — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPHOENIX YOUTH — C$17,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetALICE HOUSE — C$16,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWELCOME HOUSING AND SUPPORT — C$16,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN DOOR WOMEN'S CARE CENTRE — C$15,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetNORTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY — C$14,544 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHalifax West Ecumenical Food Bank — C$13,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$13,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetTHE PUBLIC GOOD SOCIETY OF DARTMOUTH — C$11,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetChisholm Services for Children — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN PARAPALEGIC ASSOCIATION — C$9,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetHALIFAX HUMANITIES SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$8,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetST. MATTHEWS UNITED CHURCH-OUT OF THE COLD — C$7,345 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetARCHDIOCESE OF HALIFAX- YARMOUTH — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMARGARET'S HOUSE — C$5,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMARGUERITE CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CLUB INCLUSION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCOVERDALE COURTWORK — C$3,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBRYONY HOUSE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE COTTAGE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAING HOUSE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCALVIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH ART CONNECTION — C$2,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetREGIONAL INTEPENDENT STUDENT'S ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGrace Street-Level Mission — C$2,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetNorth End Parent Centre Association — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY JUSTICE — C$721 over 1y, 0.1% 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 Youth Foundat…Mental Health Foundat…J and W Murphy Founda…Flemming Charitable F…The Windsor FoundationThe Roman Catholic Ep…Grace United ChurchSisters of Charity - …Universalist Unitaria…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS32× affinity42 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 Youth Foundation · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · J and W Murphy Foundation · Flemming Charitable Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Halifax · Grace United Church · Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement Centre · Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax

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 54 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 2024-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 118950708:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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