Lunenburg, NS · Public foundation
Lunenburg Fishermen's Foundation Inc.
To provide funds to registered charities and other activities and programs in lunenburg.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$8k
- C$10k–50k9 grants · C$152k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH SHORE | C$60,000 |
| LUNENBURG ACADEMY OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE | C$26,000 |
| MUSIQUE ROYALE | C$23,000 |
| LUNENBURG DOC FEST ASSOCIATION | C$22,000 |
| LUNENBURG ACADEMY FOUNDATION | C$20,000 |
| LUNENBURG AND DISTRICT POOL SOCIETY | C$16,000 |
| THE SOUTH SHORE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY | C$14,000 |
| LUNENBURG HERITAGE SOCIETY | C$11,000 |
| CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH | C$10,000 |
| TOWN OF LUNENBURG | C$10,000 |
| LUNENBURG FOLK HARBOUR SOCIETY | C$5,000 |
| MARITIME CONCERT OPERA SOCIETY | C$3,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- HSHEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH SHORE7× · 2017–2023 · C$301k · revenue +78%
- LALunenburg Academy Foundation4× · 2017–2023 · C$165k · revenue +94% · 43% of their budget
- LALUNENBURG AND DISTRICT POOL SOCIETY6× · 2017–2023 · C$91k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- LFLUNENBURG FISHERMEN'S MEMORIAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · C$25k · revenue +528%
- LALUNENBURG ACADEMY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · C$20k
- LYLunenburg Yacht Clubone grant, 2017 · C$15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
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…
144 bed long-term care facility providing living support to senior citizens in lunenburg nova scotia.
Performances of early and traditional music in settings of historic and cultural significance in nova scotia. festivals and workshops for students in lunenburg nova scotia.
Preserving curating and exhibiting the work of artist earl bailly. providing structured learning activities on topics related to the arts engaging in community partnerships with youth artists and professional organizations.
The society raised funds to assist in the construction and operation of a multi-purpose facility for the residents of lunenburg county. construction was completed during 2014 and the capital fundraising program was ongoing until 2022.
Searching for lost or missing persons in lunenburg county and other counties in nova scotia when requested. responding to civil emergencies (floods hurricanes etc.) providing education programs to children youth & adults as to what to do…
The museum collects documents and maintains records of all artifacts. the museum is open to the public during july and august. the museum board also maintains all the properties.
To ensure the viability of the theatre preserving it and making it a viable cultural centre.
Classical music concerts in our community; teaching musicians and singers
Providing water exercise programs to seniors and those with mobility issues with a team of trained volunteer facilitators at two locations
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lunenburg Folk Harbour Society and the most unlike its peers is Maritime Concert Opera Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 22 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH SHORE ↗
- Who funds Lunenburg Academy Foundation ↗
- Who funds LUNENBURG ACADEMY OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE ↗
- Who funds The South Shore Genealogical Society ↗
- Who funds LUNENBURG AND DISTRICT POOL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LUNENBURG DOC FEST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LUNENBURG HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL UNITED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds LUNENBURG FISHERMEN'S MEMORIAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LUNENBURG FOLK HARBOUR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARITIME CONCERT OPERA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Hinchinbrook Farm Society ↗
- Who funds LUNENBURG AND DISTRICT MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Marguerite Hubbard Charitable Foundation · Leanne Children's Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Canadahelps Canadon · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.