Pictou, NS · Private foundation
Pictou Mutual Charitable Foundation
The mission of the pictou mutual community foundation has remained unchanged since its formation.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k4 grants · C$5k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF WESTVILLE MEGHAN'S PLACE | C$10,000 |
| LYONS BROOK COMMUNITY HALL | C$2,500 |
| PICTOU COUNTY FUEL FUND | C$1,000 |
| PICTOU AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | C$1,000 |
| PICTOU COUNTY 4H COUNCIL | C$250 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 89% of grant dollars (C$99k). The 11% that went abroad (C$12k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 11% of all-years giving (C$12k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +283% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$11k 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
- NSNOVA SCOTIA SPCA2× · 2023–2024 · C$8k · revenue +22%
- PAPICTOU AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY2× · 2022–2024 · C$4k · revenue +283%
- PCPICTOU COUNTY 4H LEADERS COUNCIL4× · 2021–2024 · C$1k · revenue +753%
Funded once
- DPDECOSTE PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2023 · C$8k · revenue -24%
- LBLYONS BROOK COMMUNITY HALLone grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue -7%
- PVPC VOLUNTEER GROUND SEARCH & RESCUEone grant, 2019 · C$3k
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.
Fundraising activities to raise funds for the purchase of fire equipment and maintenance of fire equipment for the town of pictou.
Various board games various card games darts pool coral group fiddlers group northumberland quilt club pictou rug hookers ladies crafters group pictou garden club pictou lions club hosted many social activities- mayors & wardens tea pictou…
Provides fire protection services to the blue mountain area of pictou county n.s
Provide emergency food to those in need located in pictou county nova scotia
Farmers' market light horse and pony show tractor show
Provide fire protection to parts of the countries of pictou & antigonish nova scotia. fire rescue ambulance assistance and other emergency services.
The Ripley Agricultural Society held its annual fair in person this year for one evening one full day and part day on Sunday. Sponsored two 4-H clubs; active clubs were beef and sheep in which the Ripley Agricultural Society sponsored each…
Education and awareness of animal welfare including first aid and protection from heat/ticks mobile shelter for animals displaced or rescued in emergency situations
The RRA remains focused on introducing Integrated Coastal Zone management to the Richibucto Watershed. This plan has many layers where is involves all stake holders of the communities of the watershed.
Promotion of agricultural awareness in south west nova scotia
Providing fire fighting services to the communities in the area of Tracadie and District Northeast Nova Scotia. We provide fire safety education to citizens and firefighters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty and the most unlike its peers is Decoste Entertainment Centre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 DECOSTE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NORTHUMBERLAND FISHERIES MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NOVA SCOTIA SPCA ↗
- Who funds LYONS BROOK COMMUNITY HALL ↗
- Who funds PICTOU AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNION CENTRE COMMUNITY CLUB ↗
- Who funds CARIBOU DISTRICT FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds PICTOU COUNTY VOLUNTEER GROUND SEARCH AND RESCUE ↗
- Who funds WEST BRANCH COMMUNITY HALL ↗
- Who funds CHIGNECTO CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CARMA PICTOU COUNTY ↗
- Who funds TEARMANN SOCIETY FOR ABUSED WOMEN ↗
- Who funds PICTOU COUNTY 4H LEADERS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds PICTOU COUNTY FUEL FUND ↗
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: Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital Foundation · United Way of Colchester County · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · United Way of Cape Breton County · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon · PayPal Giving Fund Canada
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.