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Waverley, NS · Public foundation

Halifax Foundation

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

C$41k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$2k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$39k
C$18,795
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VON CANADAC$20,000
BRUNSWICK STREET MISSIONC$18,795
I CHALLANGE DIABETESC$2,000
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$294k · 8 repeat orgsC$287k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +110% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

C$294k
C$246k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+4%

Still filing today

88%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$41k 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

  • SC
    Shubenacadie Canal Commission
    3× · 2017–2023 · C$62k · revenue +100%
  • SM
    ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$30k · revenue +480%
  • SL
    SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY FO NOVA SCOTIA (OPERATIONG AS SH
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$16k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PARISH OF SAINT GEORGE
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue -30%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDENS
    one grant, 2021 · C$29k · revenue -43% · 63% of their budget
  • AJ
    ATLANTIC JEWISH COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +652%

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
Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia

conducts research delivers educational programs and publishes materials that advance the public appreciation of and strengthen protections for Nova Scotias built heritage; provides resources that assist the stewards of heritage buildings…

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2
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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3
Dartmouth Heritage Museum Society

On behalf of the hrm the dhms manages preserves protects and promotes the use of the collection related to the history of halifax. the dhms operates two historic homes located in dartmouth. volunteers are actively engaged in a variety of…

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4
Hall's Harbour Historical Society

Consulting/investigating with other historical societies and individuals to develop documentation to record store preserve display historical materials operate a museum and a capsite in hall's harbour nova scotia

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5
Northumberland Fisheries Museum and Heritage Association

The Northumberland Fisheries Museum maintains a collection of artifacts documents photographs and miscellanea pertaining to the history and culture of the fishery along the North Shore of Nova Scotia and those parts of the Northumberland…

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6
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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7
Association of Nova Scotia Museums

Purpose is to represent and support the common heritage interests of its members by identifying advocating promoting and nurturing the heritage of nova scotia

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8
The Halifax Field Naturalists

Production of newsletters; public presentations and field trips to raise awareness of the natural history of nova scotia conservation issues and the protection of endangered species and spaces.

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9
Islands Historical Society

Public display and interpretation of artifacts and archival materials relating to the social history of long and brier islands nova scotia; further collection and care of items illustrating such history; providing finding aids to the…

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10
Lunenburg County Historical Society

Operation of a community museum on nova scotia provincial land in two connected buildings - one owened by province and the second by the society. site includes a national historic monument; volunteer board operates the museum open june…

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11
King's Point Heritage Society Inc.

Operating a Whale Pavilion displaying a 50' humpback whale skeleton. Operating a Heritage House displaying local history and antiques. These projects will enhance tourism in the town of King's Point NL.

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12
Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site Society

Maintenance & restoration of vessels & structures that promote & preserve west coast maritime history. woodworking knot tieing skills school programs tours & historical reenactments put on by volunteers.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nova Scotia Women?S History Society and the most unlike its peers is Wee Care Developmental Day Care Centre. 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

24 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. 24 of the 28 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
14/24
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 budgetOLD BURYING GROUND FOUNDATION — C$65,275 over 4y, 44% of budgetShubenacadie Canal Commission — C$62,075 over 3y, 13% of budgetTHE PARISH OF SAINT GEORGE — C$30,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDENS — C$29,164 over 1y, 63% of budgetATLANTIC JEWISH COUNCIL — C$25,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetHalifax Women's Historical Society — C$25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetNova Scotia Nature Trust — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVON CANADA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRUNSWICK STREET MISSION — C$18,795 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetHALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$17,400 over 1y, 39% of budgetSAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY FO NOVA SCOTIA (OPERATIONG AS SH — C$16,385 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQE II Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ARMY MUSEUM HALIFAX CITADEL — C$12,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetSharkespeare By The Sea — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHope for Wildlife Society — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAksum Association for Women & Children — C$5,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOBEQUID COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetYWCA Halifax — C$4,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEE CARE DEVELOPMENT DAY CARE CENTRE — C$3,075 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREACHABILITY ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREMEMBERING CANADA'S HEROES — C$2,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetI CHALLANGE DIABETES — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

The Community Foundat…United Way Maritimes/…J and W Murphy Founda…Sisters of Charity Mo…Flemming Charitable F…River Philip Foundati…Saint Mary's Universi…Mental Health Foundat…Universalist Unitaria…The Stevens Family Fo…Sisters of Charity - …Colin and Belle MacDo…
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia SocietyNS16.3× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · J and W Murphy Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · Flemming Charitable Foundation · River Philip Foundation · Saint Mary's University · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · Universalist Unitarian Church of Halifax · The Stevens Family Foundation · Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement Centre · Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation

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 28 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 118950898:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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