Skip to content
Canadian charitiesAlso receives grants — funding profile →

Oxford, NS · Private foundation

River Philip Foundation

Soliciting gifts bequests donations and legacies from the settlor and others and distributing funds to qualified donees.

C$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
Regions reached
C$3.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k22 grants · C$83k
  • C$10k–50k45 grants · C$650k
  • C$50k–250k12 grants · C$1.2M
  • C$250k+9 grants · C$11M
C$10,000
Median grant
8
Regions reached
C$454M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTREC$3,500,000
CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITYC$2,000,000
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$1,812,029
DARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITALC$1,125,000
MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITYC$645,000
TOWN OF TRURO RE TAAC GROUNDSC$500,000
SHOREFAST FOUNDATIONC$500,000
DIABETES CANADAC$315,000
CANADIAN MUSEUM OF IMMIGRATION AT PIER 21C$250,000
UNVIERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDC$225,000
CANADA'S NATIONAL HISTORY SOCIETYC$205,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIAC$136,600
THE DR. & MRS. H.E. CHRISTIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$100,000
NSCC MAKE WAY CAMPAIGNC$100,000
LAHEY CLINIC CANADIAN FOUNDATIONC$100,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Nova Scotia
C$25M
New Brunswick
C$23M
Ontario
C$2.2M
Prince Edward Island
C$1.5M
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$873k
Manitoba
C$465k
Quebec
C$195k
British Columbia
C$21k
Alberta
C$15k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$46M · 115 repeat orgsC$8.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

115 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
96

Total granted

C$46M
C$3.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+18%

Still filing today

97%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4.7M 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

  • MA
    MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$20M · revenue +37%
  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.5M · revenue +41%
  • OC
    OXFORD COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$3.0M · revenue +406% · 97% of their budget

Funded once

  • AU
    Acadia University
    one grant, 2018 · C$500k · revenue +18%
  • MU
    MEMORIAL UNIVERISTY OF NEWFOUNDLAND
    one grant, 2020 · C$300k · revenue +10%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY HALIFAXgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$250k · revenue +97%

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.

1
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
—
2
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…

—
3
Science Atlantic

Coordinate conferences for post-secondary students to present research - coordinate lecture tours of scientists in atlantic canada - present award for outstanding science communication and research to students - facilitate meetings of…

—
4
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.

—
5
The Maritime Heart Center

The Maritime Heart Center is a non-profit organization that was incorporated in 1977 under the Nova Scotia Societies Act.Its mandate is to provide world class care to patients in the Maritimes with cardiovascular disease and to be an…

—
6
Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia

conducts research delivers educational programs and publishes materials that advance the public appreciation of and strengthen protections for Nova Scotias built heritage; provides resources that assist the stewards of heritage buildings…

—
7
Nova Scotia Talent Trust

The nova scotia talent trust offers scholarships to nova scotians studying in the arts

—
8
The Windsor Foundation

The windsor foundation has two key areas of interest in the maritime provinces: support for programs projects and initiatives in the general community which provide services to or benefits for the disadvantaged or vulnerable and for those…

—
9
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

—
10
Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Foundation

Fundraising activities for Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centres, Marketing/Awareness Programs,

—
11
Visual Arts Nova Scotia

to foster the development awareness and understanding of the visual arts in Nova Scotia to encourage the production exhibition and appreciation of works by nova scotia's visual artists; and to speak for visual artists in areas of common…

—
12
New Brunswick Foundation for the Arts Inc/Fondation Des Arts Du Nouveau Brunswick Inc

Foundation Prizes: Arts and Cultural Endowment Incentives Program for NB; Foundation Prizes and Awards. NBFA continues to collaborate and expand the success of major arts and heritage not-for-profit organizations in New Brunswick.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society and the most unlike its peers is Festival International De Musique Baroque. 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

215 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. 215 of the 246 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
213/215
Grantees still filing
148/215
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetMOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY — C$20,164,517 over 7y, 11% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$3,494,171 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOXFORD COMMUNITY CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$3,000,000 over 2y, 97% of budgetCAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY — C$2,630,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$1,502,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$1,500,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — C$1,225,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSt. Thomas University — C$1,000,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITE DE MONCTON — C$1,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KINGS COLLEGE — C$975,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNova Scotia Comunity College — C$800,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetSt. Francis Xavier — C$755,259 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCANADAS NATIONAL HISTORIC SOCIETY — C$667,500 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetRIDEAU HALL FOUNDATION — C$600,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSHOREFAST FOUNDATION — C$505,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetAcadia University — C$500,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$429,050 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetDIABETES CANADA — C$335,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERISTY OF NEWFOUNDLAND — C$300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY HALIFAX — C$250,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$200,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetTrans Canada Trail — C$200,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBRIGADOON VILLAGE — C$200,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC CANADIAN FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetTHE DR. & MRS. H.E. CHRISTIE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND TRAILS ASSOCIATION — C$190,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetIWK FOUNDATION — C$180,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBEAVERBROOK ART GALLERY — C$170,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJunior Achievement of Nova Scotia — C$170,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetFeed NS — C$150,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetEASTER SEALS — C$120,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetQEII HEALTH SCIENCE CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAUTISM NOVA SCOTIA — C$110,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$100,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Halifax — C$100,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER HALIFAX AND DARTHMOUTH — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHARLOTTETOWN LBRARY LEARNING CENTRE — C$100,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCANADIAN INTERNATIONAL ORGAN COMPETITION — C$100,000 over 4y, 5.0% of budgetHOPE BLOOMS YOUTH SOCIAL ENTREPRENEURIAL VENTURES INC. — C$100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetALS Society of NS and NB — C$92,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$90,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSPEROWAY — C$85,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPHEONIX YOUTH PROGRAMS — C$67,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetATLANTIC SLAMON FEDERATION — C$65,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTHE RIVER PHILIP CEMEMTERY SOCIETY — C$60,797 over 3y, 17% of budgetBONNY LEA FARM — C$60,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN MARITIME HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 2y, 32% 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…The Windsor FoundationJ and W Murphy Founda…United Way Maritimes/…The Dr. & Mrs. H. E. …Colin and Belle MacDo…The McCain FoundationSisters of Charity Mo…Black Family Foundati…The Medavie Foundatio…Harrison McCain Found…Saint Mary's Universi…
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia SocietyNS39.7× affinity61 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 · The Windsor Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Dr. & Mrs. H. E. Christie Community Foundation · Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation · The McCain Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · Black Family Foundation · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · Harrison McCain Foundation · Saint Mary's University

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 246 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 839190949:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

Play a game based on River Philip’s filings →