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Mississauga, ON · Private foundation

Hugh & Linda Brown Educational Foundation

BEF’s mission is to assist financially disadvantaged individuals in Atlantic Canada especially Nova Scotia obtain education and employment thereby enhancing their life outcome and society in general.

C$205k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$140k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
C$15,400
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nova Scotia Community College FoundationC$60,000
Pathways to EducationC$40,000
The Prep AcademyC$20,000
Cumberland Health Care FoundationC$20,000
HOLLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC.C$15,400
New Brunswick Community College Foundation Inc.C$15,400
Acadia UniversityC$15,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIAC$14,200
Community Foundation of Nova ScotiaC$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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$756k · 10 repeat orgsC$53k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

C$756k
C$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+11%

Still filing today

90%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k 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

  • PT
    Pathways to Education
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$223k · revenue +39%
  • AU
    Acadia University
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$40k · revenue +10%
  • NB
    New Brunswick Community College Foundation Inc.
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$35k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • NS
    NOVA SCOTIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$21k
  • HC
    Holland College
    one grant, 2023 · C$12k · revenue +11%
  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ON TRACK MICRO BURSARIES
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k

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
The Upper Canada College Foundation

Funds provided to upper canada college primarily for needs-based financial assistance for students.

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2
North Island College Foundation

Through the foundation individuals and organizations are encouraged to provide financial gifts to enhance north island college's programs and services by increasing scholarship and bursary funds and imrpoving quality of classrooms labs…

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3
Nova Scotia Community College

The nova scotia community college provides post-secondary education to approximately 20 000 students. covering academic programs across various ares such as: business hospitality health & human services trades & technology applied arts &…

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4
Niagara College Foundation
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5
Camosun College Foundation

The Foundation assists Camosun College to expand and enhance its educational programs or services not funded by government including financial aid to students at Camosun College. The Foundation provides an opportunity for individual…

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6
College of the North Atlantic

College of the north atlantic (cna) provides courses and programs to meet training needs for individuals and the province of nl. cns is one of the largest post-secondary educational and skills training centers in atlantic canada offering…

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7
Vancouver Community College Foundation

Providing scholarships and bursaries to students at vancouver community college providing equipment for programs at vancouver community college and providing funds for program development and faculties expansion at vancouver community…

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8
Canadian Hospitality Foundation

Administer sponsored scholarships -provide scholarships for students enrolled in hospitality-related university and college programs across canada -expanded scholarship eligibility to include additional hospitality-related programs such as…

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9
The Norquest College Foundation

The mandate of the norquest foundation is to raise funds for projects programs and services that serve to improve opportunities for norquest college learners' success. norquest college learners benefit directly from funds raised from…

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10
College of New Caledonia

We provide academic technical and vocational programs we provide educational courses that meet specific community needs we offer scholarships and bursaries to students

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11
Cumberland College
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12
Ashbury College Foundation

Ashbury College Foundation's objectives are to invest and manage the endowment fund contributions for the benefit of the College pursuant to the investment policy guidelines; to increase the endowment fund from year to year; to utilize…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Brunswick Community College Foundation/La Fondation du collège communautaire du Nouveau-Brunswick Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 14 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNova Scotia Community College — C$258,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPathways to Education — C$222,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCumberland Health Care Foundation — C$100,000 over 7y, 6.3% of budgetAcadia University — C$40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew Brunswick Community College Foundation Inc. — C$34,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetChildren s Aid Foundation of Nova Scotia — C$29,200 over 2y, 11% of budgetChildren's Aid Foundation — C$18,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Nova Scotia — C$17,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOLLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC. — C$15,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHolland College — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDalhousie University — C$5,000 over 2y, 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.

The Greater Saint Joh…The Windsor FoundationRiver Philip Foundati…Harrison McCain Found…Fundy Community Found…The Joyce Family Foun…Fredericton Community…The Community Foundat…The Medavie Foundatio…United Way Maritimes/…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…BenefAction Foundation
The Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint JohnNB9.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Greater Saint John Community Foundation la Fondation Communautaire de Grand Saint John · The Windsor Foundation · River Philip Foundation · Harrison McCain Foundation · Fundy Community Foundation · The Joyce Family Foundation · Fredericton Community Foundation Inc. · The Community Foundation of Prince Edward Island Inc · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · BenefAction 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 14 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 803259837:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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