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Dartmouth, NS · Public foundation

Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia

1) funding to the nova scotia health authority for programs and services in patient care education and research (central zone mental health & addictions program) 2) distribution of charitable grants to community based mental health organizations for support education and care

C$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
135
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$369k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 135 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k44 grants · C$244k
  • C$10k–50k79 grants · C$1.6M
  • C$50k–250k11 grants · C$898k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$369k
C$16,800
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEAGRAM & ASSOCIATES - LANDING STRONGC$368,661
KIDS HELP PHONEC$137,500
CMHA - NOVA SCOTIA DIVISIONC$127,447
BRIGADOON VILLAGEC$104,500
PICTOU COUNTY MENTAL ILLNESS FAMILY SUPPORT ASSOC.C$100,000
7TH STEP SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIAC$92,391
MI'KMAQ NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE DIRECTION 180C$67,205
MARITIME CONSERVATORYC$57,370
THE MARGUERITE CENTRE SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIAC$56,360
ANTIGONISH COUNTY MENTAL ILLNESS SUPPORT GROUPC$55,000
CAPE BRETON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
HEALING OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE EVERYWHERE(HOPE)C$50,000
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIAC$42,500
HOPE FOR MENTAL HEALTHC$42,500
EAST COAST MUSIC ASSOCIATIONC$35,427
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 75% of grant dollars (C$4.4M). The 25% that went abroad (C$1.4M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 25% of all-years giving (C$1.4M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$4k · 1 grant

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.4M · 59 repeat orgsC$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

59 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 88 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
47

Total granted

C$3.4M
C$479k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+24%

Still filing today

90%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’24
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

  • TT
    THE TEMA FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$571k · revenue +299%
  • BV
    BRIGADOON VILLAGE
    3× · 2018–2024 · C$221k · revenue +65%
  • CN
    CMHA - NOVA SCOTIA DIVISION
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$207k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • CB
    CAPE BRETON HOPE PROJECT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$35k
  • EM
    ELEVATEHER MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT SERVICES CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$27k
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH COMMISSION OF CANADA
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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.

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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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2
Sexual Health Nova Scotia Society

Provides sexual and reproductive health education promotion and awareness in nova scotia through our member centres throughout the province. this includes capacity building and professional development for communities and professionals who…

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3
Independent Living Nova Scotia Association

transitional and pre-employment programming support services for self managed care shared services programming/housing food insecurity programming peer support events self advocacy support

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4
Peer Support North

Nisa/northern iniative for social action is an organization run by and for consumers of mental health services. we develop occupational skills nurture self-confidence and provide resources for recovery by creating opportunities for…

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5
Hull Services

Hull services is a multi-service organization that offers a range of evidence-based and evidence-informed programs that support children youth adults and families to overcome challenges and build resilience. hull programs and services…

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6
South Coast Wellness Addictions and Mental Health

CAMHS provides adult mental health services addiction services for all ages mental health and addiction crisis services peer support services (consumer survivor initiative) peer support for the crisis stabilization beds (community partner…

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7
Community Justice Society-Halifax Region

Restorative justice programming provides youth and adults with an alternative to the criminal justice system other inclusive programs include: stoplift options to anger (o2a) the hive girls group restorative options for youth in care…

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8
Mental Health Consumer/Survivors Employment Association of Essex County

Mental health consumer/survivors association is a community employment and training centre for unemployed consumer survivors of mental health services. it provides counselling and supportive services to unemployed consumer survivors who…

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9
Services and Housing in the Province (Ship)

Services and Housing In the Province (SHIP) is a community based agency providing a spectrum of low to high intensity housing and support services through a variety of programs. Support services include supportive counselling intensive…

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10
Northeast Addiction and Mental Health Centre for Holistic Recovery

Nam residential treatment program recovery coaching and counseling personalized recovery program intensive outpatient program nam academy online nam recovery groups intensive family support program

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11
The John Howard Society of North Island

We provide a variety of services to help youth and families. They include: alcohol and drug counselling mental health support primary care addictions outreach housing and support for youth independent living support for youth forensic…

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12
Transition House Association of Nova Scotia

For the past 25 years thans has provided research programs services and training for the service providers staff board members and executive directors of its member organizations including but not limited to following modified therapeutic…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Laing House Association and the most unlike its peers is We Are Young Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

121 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. 121 of the 194 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)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
116/121
Grantees still filing
60/121
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 budgetTHE TEMA FOUNDATION — C$571,224 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetBRIGADOON VILLAGE — C$221,100 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCMHA - NOVA SCOTIA DIVISION — C$206,768 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetMI'KMAQ NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE DIRECTION 180 — C$141,807 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$134,703 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$130,830 over 5y, 10% of budgetLOVE NOVA SCOTIA — C$112,499 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetEATING DISORDERS NOVA SCOTIA — C$103,900 over 4y, 14% of budget7TH STEP SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$92,391 over 1y, 59% of budgetNORTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$82,100 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISM NOVA SCOTIA — C$71,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MARGUERITE CENTRE SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$70,360 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetSTEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION — C$67,685 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetCMHA HALIFAX-DARTMOUTH BRANCH — C$63,150 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetS.O.A.R. (SURVIVORS OF ABUSE RECOVERING) — C$58,860 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetMARITIME CONSERVATORY — C$57,370 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOLD SCHOOL COMMUNITY GATHERING PLACE — C$55,739 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetREACH ABILITY — C$53,925 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetCOVERDALE COURTWORK SOCIETY — C$53,897 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetHOSPICE HALIFAX — C$52,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCAPE BRETON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRURO HOMELESS OUTREACH SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetADSUM ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — C$49,888 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLUNG ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$45,412 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND STORY WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$45,146 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSTRONGEST FAMILIES INSTITUTE — C$44,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEPTUNE THEATRE FOUNDATION — C$43,561 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$37,582 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE YOUTH PROJECT — C$37,210 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetMACPHEE CENTRE — C$37,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetHOPE BLOOMS YOUTH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES INC. — C$35,100 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetISANS — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA HALIFAX — C$34,260 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EMPLOYMENT — C$32,563 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWAPNA'KIKEWI'SKWAQ - WOMEN OF FIRST LIGHT — C$32,497 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetSOULS HARBOUR RESCUE MISSION — C$32,491 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEVANGELINE RECREATION SOCIETY(ERS) — C$31,590 over 1y, 13% of budgetBEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY — C$30,883 over 1y, 45% of budgetHALIFAX REFUGEE CLINIC ASSOCIATION — C$29,215 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHEALTHY MINDS COOPERATIVE — C$28,197 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetALICE HOUSE — C$28,185 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCHESTER MUNICIPAL HERITAGE SOCIETY — C$26,740 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetRoots of Emphathy — C$26,650 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST. GEORGE'S YOUTHNET — C$25,500 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetCOLCHESTER SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetTRI COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAIDAEN MAE FUND/AIDAEN'S PLACE — C$25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTREY SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 7.9% 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/…The Windsor FoundationJ and W Murphy Founda…Sisters of Charity Mo…Flemming Charitable F…Halifax Association f…Halifax Youth Foundat…United Way of Cape Br…River Philip Foundati…Black Family Foundati…The Medavie Foundatio…
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia SocietyNS41× affinity53 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 · The Windsor Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · Flemming Charitable Foundation · Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor · Halifax Youth Foundation · United Way of Cape Breton County · River Philip Foundation · Black Family Foundation · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc.

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 194 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 foundations.

Source object 858635675:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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