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Halifax, NS · Public foundation

Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia

Bursary program for graduating high school students to financially assist with their post secondary education in atlantic canada financial support for needy welfare poverty and charitable purposes grants to a broad range of registered charities provining youth and community programs

C$385k
Granted FY2024still arriving
61
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$117k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k49 grants · C$93k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$176k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$117k
C$1,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. PAUL'S FAMILY RESOURCE CENTREC$116,900
PICTOU COUNTY FUEL FUND SOCIETYC$24,606
HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH SHOREC$23,000
COBEQUID COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTREC$17,000
IWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$14,500
THE FIDELIS HOUSE SOCIETYC$14,500
CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLINDC$14,500
ST. GEORGES YOUTH-NET SOCIETYC$14,500
COLCHESTER EAST HANTS HEALTH CENTER FDN.C$14,500
QUEENS GENERAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARYC$14,500
STRAIT REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONC$14,000
MUNICIPALITY OF PICTOU COUNTYC$10,000
ANNAPOLIS CALLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL BOARDC$8,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIAC$7,800
COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORTC$7,800
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.4M · 68 repeat orgsC$469k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

68 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
55

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$380k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+29%

Still filing today

96%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$89k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • SP
    ST. PAUL'S FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$392k · revenue +86% · 33% of their budget
  • LV
    LAKE VAUGHAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$75k · revenue +58%
  • SO
    Special Olympics Nova Scotia
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$55k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • QC
    QUEENS COUNTY TRANSIT SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$81k · revenue +64% · 30% of their budget
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -48%
  • LF
    LOAVE & FISHES INNER-CITY CHURCHES OF SYDNEY
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue -16%

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
Cancer Support and Resource Program of Norfolk

Raising money to support local families affected by cancer

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2
Hants Shore Health Association
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3
Port Hawkesbury Food Bank Society

The society operates a food bank in the town of port hawkesbury nova scotia which is staff entirely with volunteers. the food bank provides essential food to persons in need who reside within 40 kilometers of the town. the society…

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4
Northumberland County Foodbanks

Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities

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5
Nova Scotia Health Authority (Nsha)

The nova scotia health authority delivers inpatient and outpatient health care services to nova scotians at various hosptals clinics and health centres throughout the province of nova scotia. services provided include acute care mental…

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6
Eastern Shore Food Bank

To provide food and other necessities to those in need in our geographical areas between lower ship harbour and gaetz brook ns

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7
The Hantsport and Area Community Food Bank Society

Provide food for needy people in our catchment area. we also give out emergency baskets of food as well s extra food at christmas & for the summer.

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8
Hants Community Hospital Auxiliary Society

Support and service hants community hospital

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9
Hospice Society of Greater Halifax

Operation of residential hospice facility. leading fundraising efforts to support operations of the hospice providing support programs to those with a life limiting illness and their family members including bereavement support.

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10
Neighbours Helping Neighbours Society

Operating a food bank in colchester county nova scotia

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11
Aberdeen Health Foundation Society

The aberdeen health foundation society's objective is to provide programs that will support the delivery of health care within pictou county nova scotia.

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12
Society of Atlantic Heroes Recovery and Reintegration

The Society continued to develop its strategic programming to provide supportive housing to veterans and first responders and immediate families who must travel extended distances to attend specialist medical appointments in Halifax…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Palliative Care Society of Cape Breton County and the most unlike its peers is Milton Cemetery Company. 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

120 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. 120 of the 134 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
44
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/120
Grantees still filing
74/120
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST. PAUL'S FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$392,200 over 7y, 33% of budgetQUEENS COUNTY TRANSIT SOCIETY — C$81,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetLAKE VAUGHAN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — C$75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Olympics Nova Scotia — C$55,200 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetANNAPOLIS VALLEY REGIONAL SCHOOL BOARD — C$53,672 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetChignecto Central Regional School Board — C$53,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY SERVICE ASS'N — C$51,800 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSouth Shore Regional School Board — C$50,100 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTRAIT REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION — C$48,872 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH SHORE — C$48,320 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetCobequid Community Health Centre — C$47,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetPICTOU COUNTY FUEL FUND SOCIETY — C$45,191 over 3y, 16% of budgetSCOUTS CANADA — C$41,585 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetCOLCHESTER EAST HANTS HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$36,200 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetLOAVE & FISHES INNER-CITY CHURCHES OF SYDNEY — C$30,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCOLCHESTER EAST HANTS HEALTH CENTRE F'DN. — C$28,648 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MACDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ATLANTIC — C$28,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHants Community Hospital Foundation — C$27,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE ASS'N — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCAPE BRETON FIREFIGHTERS BURN CAMP SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBreakfast Program Ass'n of Fairview — C$21,425 over 7y, 75% of budgetHANDICAPPED ORGANIZATION PROMOTING EQUITY — C$20,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetThe Provincial Autism Centre Ass'n — C$20,060 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetNova Scotia Community College Fdn. — C$18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$16,770 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHOSPICE/PALLATIVE CARE SOCIETY OF CAPE BRETON — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBalley Regional Hospital — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRURO HOMLESS OUTREACH SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetQUEENS GENERAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARY — C$14,500 over 1y, 92% of budgetTHE FIDELIS HOUSE SOCIETY — C$14,500 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$14,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. GEORGES YOUTH-NET SOCIETY — C$14,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVERY WOMEN'S FUNDRAISING SOCIETY — C$14,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetPictou West Food Bank Society — C$14,000 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetMISSION TO SEAFARERS — C$13,625 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCANADIAN DEMOLAY FOUNDATION — C$12,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetAIR CADET LEAGUE OF CANADA N.S. PROVINCIAL — C$12,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT — C$11,100 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY HOSPICE/PALLIATIVE CARE — C$10,775 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetThe Royal Nova Scotia International Tattoo — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA of Greater Halifax — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYARMOUTH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHALIFAX WEST ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK — C$9,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetDIGBY GENERAL HOSPITAL AUXILIARY — C$8,500 over 7y, 23% of budgetNAVY LEAGUE OF CANADA — C$7,500 over 5y, 19% of budgetNORTH QUEENS HERITAGE SOCIETY — C$7,400 over 2y, 19% of budgetNova Scotia 4H Council — C$7,140 over 1y, 1.2% 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.

United Way Maritimes/…The Community Foundat…River Philip Foundati…United Way of Colches…J and W Murphy Founda…The Windsor FoundationUnited Way of Cape Br…Halifax Youth Foundat…Sisters of Charity Mo…Doane Grant Thornton …The Retired Teachers …Feed Nova Scotia Soci…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS31.8× affinity65 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 · River Philip Foundation · United Way of Colchester County · J and W Murphy Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · United Way of Cape Breton County · Halifax Youth Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · The Retired Teachers Foundation · Feed Nova Scotia Society

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 134 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 119034510:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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