Halifax, NS · Charitable organization
Nova Scotia Bird Society
Publication of our magazine.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| I McLaren Scholarship | C$3,600 |
| J Kearney Listening Together | C$1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$135 |
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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k 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
- CWCobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre4× · 2017–2023 · C$9k · revenue +28%
- LTListening Together2× · 2022–2023 · C$3k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2020–2022 · C$2k
Funded once
- DUDUCKS UNLIMITEDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue +60%
- USUniversité Sainte-Annegraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$6k · revenue +46%
- SFSt. Francis Xavier Universityone grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
7 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. 7 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.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: 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.