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Tantallon, NS · Public foundation

Rural Communities Foundation of Nova Scotia

Provide grants and donations to programs that help rural communities

C$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$18k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$18,062
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$380k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UPPER HAMMONDS PLAINS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONC$18,062
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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$370k · 10 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +155% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
90

Total granted

C$370k
C$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+155%
+34%

Still filing today

90%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$18k 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

  • AL
    Adult Learning Association of Cape Breton
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$51k · revenue +70%
  • CS
    CREAMERY SQUARE ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$45k · revenue +194% · 89% of their budget
  • CB
    Cape Breton Centre for Craft & Design
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$45k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • AV
    ANNAPOLIS VALLEY HANTS - COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM FOR CHILDR
    one grant, 2020 · C$119k
  • LN
    LITERACY NOVA SCOTIA
    one grant, 2020 · C$75k · revenue -43%
  • NH
    NORTHERN HEALTHY CONNECTIONS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · C$71k · revenue -2%

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
Raincoast Education Society

Environmental education programs for residents and visitors to the clayoquot sound region.

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2
Halifax Community Learning Network Association

Hcln offers free basic skills tutoring programs to adults in halifax area from september to june. adult learners are assessed and paired with a volunteer tutor who will work with them once to twice a week. programs take place at branches…

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3
P.E.I. Literacy Alliance Inc.

Ready set learn - tutoring program for kids family literacy workshops essential skills for atlantic fisheries program imigination library

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4
Haldimand-Norfolk Literacy Council

Conduct various literacy and adult learning programs in the community

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5
College of the North Atlantic

College of the north atlantic (cna) provides courses and programs to meet training needs for individuals and the province of nl. cns is one of the largest post-secondary educational and skills training centers in atlantic canada offering…

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6
Yarmouth County Learning Network

1) Levels 1 & 2 Adult Upgrading for Learners in the Tri-County Area with a defined curriculum. 2) Deliver GED training for under-employed residents. 3) E3 - Essential Skills - Digital Literacy Program 4) E3 - Essential Skills - Better You…

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7
Antigonish County Adult Learning Association

Caec is for learners who are studying to complete the 5 tests required for high school completion. alp 1/11 is for beginner to intermediate learners studying math reading writing or social studies. e3 aligned programs are employment…

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8
Nova Scotia Sea School

Summer seamanship programs for teenagers. boat building and wilderness eduction programs.

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9
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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10
Young Naturalists Club

Natural history programming for youth and families in nova scotia (guided hikes talks educational resource creation)

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11
Northumberland Learning Connection

Public educatioin lectures seminars discussion forums by leading experts in their field

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12
Cumberland Adult Network for Upgrading (Can-U) Association

Adult Literacy tutoring Upgrading and essential skills training for the residents of Cumberland County Virtual access for learning

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southwest Nova Scotia Association and the most unlike its peers is Creamery Square 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

75 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. 75 of the 101 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
34
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
58/75
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 budgetLITERACY NOVA SCOTIA — C$75,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetNORTHERN HEALTHY CONNECTIONS SOCIETY — C$70,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetAdult Learning Association of Cape Breton — C$51,033 over 2y, 10% of budgetCELTIC MUSIC INTERPRETIVE CENTRE — C$49,900 over 1y, 12% of budgetHOPE PROJECT ADDICTION RECOVERY SERVICES COOPERATIVE LIMITED — C$46,066 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMULGRAVE ROAD THEATRE FOUNDATION — C$45,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetCREAMERY SQUARE ASSOCIATION — C$45,160 over 2y, 89% of budgetCape Breton Centre for Craft & Design — C$45,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetBluenose Coastal Action Foundation — C$38,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTRI-COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTRE SOCIETY — C$37,105 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFESTIVAL ANTIGONISH SUMMER THEATRE — C$35,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetSOU'WEST NOVA TRANSIT ASSOCIATION — C$31,516 over 1y, 14% of budgetNew Dawn Community Development Educational Foundation — C$30,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetATLANTIC FILMMAKERS COOPERATIVE LIMITED — C$30,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPARENTS PLACE YARMOUTH FAMILY RESOURCE CENRE — C$28,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPictou County Roots for Youth Society — C$25,330 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetEASTERN SHORE MUSQUODOBOIT VALLEY LITERACY NETWORK — C$20,782 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCape Breton Centre for Sexual Health — C$20,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCHIGNECTO-CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION — C$19,999 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNENBURG COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$19,963 over 1y, 38% of budgetANNAPOLIS VALLEY REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION — C$18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPICTOU COUNTY PROSTATE CANCER SUPPORT ASSOCIATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF YARMOUTH — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHalifax Refugee Clinic Association — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKings Theatre Society — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetATLANTIC CHRISTIAN TRAINING CENTRE — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDR. KINGSTON MEMORIAL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$14,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetDUCKS UNLIMITED CANADA — C$13,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKINGS VOLUNTEER RESOURCE ASSOCIATION — C$13,170 over 2y, 16% of budgetPICTOU-ANTIGONISH REGIONAL LIBRARY — C$10,294 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLEAN ANNAPOLIS RIVER PROJECT — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOOKS FOR INMATES — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetQUEENS LEARNING NETWORK — C$9,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE HAVRE BOUCHER AND AREA- CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT & RECREATI — C$9,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSHELBURNE COUNTY LEARNING NETWORK SOCIETY — C$9,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetDIGBY AREA LEARNING ASSOCIATION — C$9,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGUYSBOROUGH COUNTY ADULT LEARNING ASSOCIATION — C$9,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetEAST HANTS COMMUNITY LEARNING ASSOCIATION — C$9,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA COMMUNITY LINKS — C$9,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetST. ANN'S BAY COMMUNITY HEALTH GROUP SOCIETY — C$9,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES OF PICTOU — C$9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetROOTS OF EMPATHY — C$8,860 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN COALITION FOR SENIORS' MENTAL HEALTH — C$8,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOLCHESTER EAST HANTS HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$8,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetYARMOUTH LIFE SKILLS FOR DISABLED ADULTS — C$8,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHANTS LEARNING NETWORK ASSOCIATION — C$8,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCOLCHESTER ADULT LEARNING ASSOCIATION — C$7,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetLA SOCIÉTÉ SAINT-PIERRE — C$7,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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…Halifax Youth Foundat…Literacy Association …United Way Maritimes/…Mental Health Foundat…United Way of Colches…United Way of Cape Br…The Catherine Donnell…Corporation of the Si…J and W Murphy Founda…Sisters of Charity Mo…River Philip Foundati…
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia SocietyNS20.3× affinity21 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 · Halifax Youth Foundation · Literacy Association of Nova Scotia · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · United Way of Colchester County · United Way of Cape Breton County · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · Corporation of the Sisters of St Martha · J and W Murphy Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · River Philip Foundation

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 101 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 863506655:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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