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Hantsport, NS · Charitable organization

Robert Pope Foundation

The ROBERT POPE FOUNDATION was incorporated april 14 1992 under the societies act of nova scotia.

C$42k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$9k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROOTS OF EMPATHYC$9,000
HELEN CREIGHTON FOLKLORE SOCIETYC$8,100
CANOE KAYAK CANADAC$6,500
KINGSBURG COASTAL CONSERVANCY ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
WONDER'NEATH ART SOCIETYC$5,000
WEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONC$4,000
WRITERS' FEDERATIONC$2,500
CARAVAN THEATRE ASSOCIATIONC$2,000
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$136k · 3 repeat orgsC$112k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

C$136k
C$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
-4%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$37k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22’23
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

  • NS
    NOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
    4× · 2018–2022 · C$99k · revenue +5%
  • BV
    BRIGADOON VILLAGE
    3× · 2018–2021 · C$22k · revenue +65%
  • WA
    WONDER'NEATH ART SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$15k · revenue -9%

Funded once

  • Q1
    QE 11 Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue +42%
  • DM
    Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue -83%
  • BV
    BRIGADOON VILLAGE
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k

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.

1
Nova Scotia Talent Trust

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

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2
Bravura Nova Scotia

Endowments faculty fellowships bursaries scholarships and cash prizes awarded to qualifying students and teachers in Nova Scotia.

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3
Lunenburg School of the Arts

Lunenburg school of the arts offers workshops led by professional art educators and working artists

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4
Uncommon Common Art Society

We work to advance the public's appreciation of the arts in nova scotia by producing public exhibitions of visual arts and by providing a forum for qualified artists to exhibit their artistic works. in addition we work to advance education…

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5
Nova Scotia Masterworks Awards Foundation
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6
Dawson City Arts Society

Full time & part time professional & continuing art education courses & workshops - youth programming - performing arts literary & visual presentations - public art gallery - annual art festival - summer art market - annual film festival -…

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7
Victoria Visual Arts Legacy Society

Arts scholarships

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8
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.

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9
Newcastles Art Show Inc.

Shows classes and events relating to art shows.

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10
Atlantic Book Awards Society

The atlantic book awards society promotes the work of atlantic canadian writers and publishers. the society holds and annual festival each spring with events in english and french across atlantic canada culminating with the gala to…

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11
Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council

The Nova Scotia Designer Crafts Council (the 'NSDCC') is a non-profit based organization with the mandate to encourage and promote the craft movement in Nova Scotia and the public awareness of craft products and activities. To achieve…

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12
The Nanaimo Arts Council

1) Islands Short Fiction Review 2) Ekphrastic Celebration 3) Art Around Town 4) Night Market 5) Online Galleries 6) Nanaimo Artwalk 7)Regional art promotional 8)Art Research

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Visual Arts Nova Scotia and the most unlike its peers is West Brooklyn Community Association. 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

15 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. 15 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNOVA SCOTIA COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN — C$99,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetQE 11 Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIGADOON VILLAGE — C$22,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWONDER'NEATH ART SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetDalhousie Medical Research Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreat Village Preservation Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN CREIGHTON FOLKLORE SOCIETY — C$8,100 over 1y, 58% of budgetKINGSBURG COASTAL CONSERVANCY ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWEST BROOKLYN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$4,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCHESTER ART CENTRE — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWRITERS' FEDERATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVisual Arts of NS — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCARAVAN THEATRE ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDalhousie University Medical Humanities — C$2,000 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.

Craig FoundationThe Community Foundat…United Way Maritimes/…Private Giving Founda…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Strategic Charitable …Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…My Tribute Gift Found…Canadian Online Givin…
Craig FoundationNS9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Craig Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 19 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under supportive health care.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 139543433:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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