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Truro, NS · Charitable organization

Literacy Association of Nova Scotia

Promote adult literacy in Nova Scotia visit www.literacyns.ca for more information.

C$58k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,800
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$288k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Adult Learning Association of Cape Breton CountyC$6,800
Dartmouth Learning NetworkC$5,887
Community Learning Association North of SmokeyC$2,800
Eastern Shore Musquodoboit Valley Literacy NetworkC$2,800
Yarmouth County Learning NetworkC$2,800
Valley Community Learning AssociationC$2,800
Pictou County Continuous Learning AssociationC$2,800
Guysborough Adult Learning AssociationC$2,800
Hants Learning Network AssociationC$2,800
Colchester Adult Learning AssociationC$2,800
East Hants Community Learning AssociationC$2,800
Western Halifax Community Learning NetworkC$2,800
Inverness County Literacy CoalitionC$2,800
MetroWorksC$2,800
Lunenburg County Adult Learning NetworkC$2,736
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$282k · 27 repeat orgsC$99k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
32

Total granted

C$282k
C$88k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+20%

Still filing today

59%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$11k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • PC
    Pictou County Continuous Learning Association
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$24k · revenue +26%
  • AL
    Adult Learning Association of Cape Breton County
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$21k · revenue +18%
  • DL
    Dartmouth Learning Network
    4× · 2019–2024 · C$20k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CA
    CUMBERLAND ADULT LEARNING NETWORK FOR UPGRADING
    one grant, 2020 · C$6k
  • TO
    Town of Port Hawkesbury
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k
  • ED
    EQUIPE D'ALPHABETISATION NOUVELLE-ECOSSE PARTNERING WITH LA
    one grant, 2019 · C$4k · revenue -4%

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
Valley Adult Learning Association

Ongoing programs: literacy program - upgrading skills in reading writing numeracy and computers

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2
Tri-County Literacy Council

One on one tutoring of adults in reading writing and numeracy. assessment services for adult basic education. small group workshops

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3
Luxton Adult Literacy Working Group

Continue to provide adult upgrading for english and math at no cost to the participants

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4
Drayton Valley & District Community Learning Association

Community adult learning program

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5
Central Valley Adult Learning Association Inc.

Adult education services

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6
Literacy North Halton

Literacy north halton now operating as adult learning centre halton has expanded service delivery into the south halton communities of oakville and burlington. we continue to provide local literacy and essential skills programs and…

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7
Haldimand-Norfolk Literacy Council

Conduct various literacy and adult learning programs in the community

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8
Thunder Bay Literacy Group

One on one literacy/numeracy training for adults. small group literacy classes for adults and computer training for adults

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9
Interlake Adult Learning Association Inc

Literacy Programs

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10
Peel-Halton-Dufferin Adult Learning Network

A regional resource supporting adult literacy and basic skills programing and providing leadership amongst delivery agencies.

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11
Grande Prairie Council for Lifelong Learning Society

Provided programs include adult learning programs and services in the areas of literacy career upgrading english as an additional language and public education.

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12
Community Learning Network - an Alberta Association of Leaders in Lifelong Learning

The Community Learning Network (CLN) cultivates and promotes the advancement of community-based learning in Alberta by providing training support and resources to our networks. Based on identified trends needs and issues in community adult…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adult Learning Association of Cape Breton County and the most unlike its peers is La Societe Saint-Pierre. 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

20 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. 20 of the 63 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)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
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$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPictou County Continuous Learning Association — C$23,850 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAdult Learning Association of Cape Breton County — C$20,793 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDartmouth Learning Network — C$20,333 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHants Learning Network Association — C$19,410 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetColchester Adult Learning Association — C$17,508 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHalifax Community Learning Network — C$15,657 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetEast Hants Community Learning Association — C$14,800 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetGuysborough Adult Learning Association — C$14,546 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetYarmouth County Learning Network — C$12,800 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetValley Community Learning Association — C$11,741 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLunenburg County Adult Learning Network — C$7,491 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCAN-U — C$7,300 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetQueens Learning Network — C$6,959 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetEastern Shore Musquodoboit Valley Literacy Network — C$6,533 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetEQUIPE D'ALPHABETISATION NOUVELLE-ECOSSE PARTNERING WITH LA — C$3,850 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDigby Area Learning Association — C$3,726 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHELBURNE COUNTY LEARNING NETWORK — C$3,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetRichmond County Literacy Network — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Learning Organization North of Smokey — C$1,718 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAntigonish County Adult Learning Association — C$697 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.

  • Who funds Pictou County Continuous Learning Association ↗
  • Who funds Adult Learning Association of Cape Breton County ↗
  • Who funds Dartmouth Learning Network ↗
  • Who funds Hants Learning Network Association ↗
  • Who funds Colchester Adult Learning Association ↗
  • Who funds Halifax Community Learning Network ↗
  • Who funds East Hants Community Learning Association ↗
  • Who funds Guysborough Adult Learning Association ↗
  • Who funds Yarmouth County Learning Network ↗
  • Who funds Valley Community Learning Association ↗
  • Who funds Lunenburg County Adult Learning Network ↗
  • Who funds CAN-U ↗
  • Who funds Queens Learning Network ↗
  • Who funds Eastern Shore Musquodoboit Valley Literacy Network ↗
  • Who funds EQUIPE D'ALPHABETISATION NOUVELLE-ECOSSE PARTNERING WITH LA ↗
  • Who funds Digby Area Learning Association ↗
  • Who funds SHELBURNE COUNTY LEARNING NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Richmond County Literacy Network ↗

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.

Rural Communities Fou…Halifax Youth Foundat…The Community Foundat…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Rural Communities Foundation of Nova ScotiaNS16.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rural Communities Foundation of Nova Scotia · Halifax Youth Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 63 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 charitable organization under support of schools and education.

Source object 139831697:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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