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Dartmouth, NS · Charitable organization

Nova Scotia Nature Trust

Programs designed to: (1) educate and encourage landowners to preserve land in Nova Scotia and to build awareness of land conservation and (2) provide permanent conservation and stewardship of ecologically significant natural landscape.

C$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$9k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.7M
C$376
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Nature Conservancy of CanadaC$1,132,500
Nature Trust of New BrunswickC$566,250
Atlantic Canada Conservation Data CentreC$2,175
Land Trust Alliance of British ColumbiaC$2,146
Canada HelpsC$1,865
Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc.C$1,327
Atlantic School of TheologyC$376
Mi'kmaw Native Friendship SocietyC$330
My Tribute Gift FoundationC$206
Atlantic Salmon FederationC$200
United Way of Hailfax RegionC$40
Canadian Online Giving FoundationC$22
CHIMPC$8
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 10 repeat orgsC$539k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
7

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$537k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • NC
    Nature Conservancy of Canada
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +106%
  • NT
    Nature Trust of New Brunswick
    2× · 2021–2024 · C$587k · revenue +33%
  • AC
    Atlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • NS
    Nova Scotia Crown Share Land Legacy Trust
    one grant, 2023 · C$525k · revenue +1%
  • SM
    ST. MARGARET'S BAY STEWARDSHIP ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +38%
  • AU
    Acadia University
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +7%

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.

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Nova Scotia Nature Trust

Programs designed to: (1) educate and encourage landowners to preserve land in Nova Scotia and to build awareness of land conservation and (2) provide permanent conservation and stewardship of ecologically significant natural landscape.

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2
Island Nature Trust

land acquisition through donation and purchase application of protection to those lands stewardship and management to retain ecological integrity protection and monitoring of species-at-risk nature education and engagement programs…

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3
Alliance of Canadian Land Trusts/Alliance canadienne des organismes de conservation

The alliance of canadian land trusts (aclt) supports and empowers land trusts across canada to be vibrant unified and effective in advancing land conservation.

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4
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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5
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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6
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists

Nature Nova Scotia (also known as the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) exists to aid in the communication and cooperation among naturalists natural history societies and other nature-focused groups in Nova Scotia. We profile and…

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7
Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation

Coastal Action established in December 1993 is a charitable organization that addresses environmental concerns throughout the South Shore region of Nova Scotia and beyond. Our goal is to promote the restoration enhancement and conservation…

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8
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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9
Northumberland Land Trust

Maintaining and managing fourteen nature reserves Monitoring endangered & other species on reserves Assessing whether to acquire new properties Communicating with members & donors

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10
Centre for Land Conservation Centre Pour La Conservation Des Terres

Stewardship of canadian land trust standards and practices and development of accreditation program.

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11
Oceans Research and Conservation Association - Orca

Research and studies related to the conservation of marine life; identifying endangered marine species determining what their habitat needs are and how best to protect them and building the evidence base to support conservation efforts.

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12
Nature Conservancy of Canada (Pei) Inc.

The nature conservancy of canada (pei) inc. is a non-profit conservation organization that takes a businesslike approach to protecting prince edward island's natural heritage. ncc (pei) inc. is distinguished by its direct and singular…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ontario Land Trust Alliance Inc. and the most unlike its peers is My Tribute Gift Foundation. 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNature Conservancy of Canada — C$1,387,200 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetNature Trust of New Brunswick — C$586,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetNova Scotia Crown Share Land Legacy Trust — C$525,147 over 1y, 10% of budgetAtlantic Canada Conservation Data Centre — C$16,425 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetAcadia University — C$4,517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanada Helps — C$4,029 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOntario Land Trust Alliance Inc. — C$3,296 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLand Trust Alliance of British Columbia — C$2,146 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDucks Unlimited Canada — C$810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMersey Tobeatic Research Institute Cooperative Limited — C$800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAtlantic Salmon Federation — C$725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMi'kmaw Native Friendship Society — C$670 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAtlantic School of Theology — C$376 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Tribute Gift Foundation — C$223 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Halifax Region — C$144 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBerwick and District Community Association — C$108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBack to The Sea Society — C$100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Online Giving Foundation — C$75 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHIMP — C$8 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Nature Conservanc…United Way Maritimes/…The Community Foundat…The McLean FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Td Friends of the Env…BenefAction FoundationToronto FoundationAqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…
The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la NatureON9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Nature · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · The McLean Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 20 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 foundations.

Source object 889627691:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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