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Halifax, NS · Charitable organization

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.

C$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$56k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$159k
C$50
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$337M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Saint Mary's University Students AssociationC$56,487
Nova Scotia Co-Operative CouncilC$52,475
Mi'Kmawey Debert Cultural CentreC$50,204
ProlificC$25,015
Individual grant recipientC$10,000
Dalhousie UniversityC$5,125
Ridge Meadows Hospital FoundationC$50
The Janeway Children's Hospital FoundationC$50
Sacred Heart School of HalifaxC$50
MS Canada SP CanadaC$50
Heart and Stroke Foundation ofC$50
Erie Shores Health FoundationC$50
Hospice Society of Greater HalifaxC$50
CANADAHELPS CANADONC$50
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 64% of grant dollars (C$434k). The 36% that went abroad (C$247k) is mapped below.

Which regions your grants reach

Nova Scotia
C$404k
Ontario
C$18k
New Brunswick
C$7k
Quebec
C$4k
Alberta
C$200
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$150
British Columbia
C$50
Manitoba
C$50

Beyond home — 36% of all-years giving (C$247k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$3k · 2 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$401k · 23 repeat orgsC$280k to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
82

Total granted

C$401k
C$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+32%

Still filing today

83%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$78k 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

  • AS
    ATLANTIC SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$52k · revenue +27%
  • MD
    Mi'Kmawey Debert Cultural Centre
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$51k · revenue +9%
  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$18k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • ES
    Enactus Saint Mary's University
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k
  • AS
    Atlantic School of Theology
    one grant, 2017 · C$27k
  • JE
    Jazz East Rising Association
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k

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.

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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…

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2
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
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3
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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4
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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5
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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6
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…

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7
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…

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8
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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9
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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10
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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11
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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12
Canadian Academy of Health Sciences/AcadÉMie Canadienne Des Sciences De La SantÉ.

The objective of the canadian academy of health sciences-academie canadienne des sciences de la sante is to provide assessments of and advice on key issues relevant to the health of canadians.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia and the most unlike its peers is Business Is Jammin' Society. 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

71 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. 71 of the 111 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/71
Grantees still filing
48/71
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDiscovery Centre — C$95,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetATLANTIC SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY — C$51,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMi'Kmawey Debert Cultural Centre — C$50,820 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$22,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$17,975 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouls Harbour Rescue Mission — C$11,270 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION OF HALIFAX — C$8,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAdsum Association for Women & Children — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSACRED HEART SCHOOL OF HALIFAX — C$6,050 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADIAN — C$4,654 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAdministrative Sciences Association of Canada — C$4,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEC Montreal Foundation — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT SAINT VINCENT UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSpecial Olympics Society of Nova Scotia — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$1,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Patrick's Church Restoration Society — C$1,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetSCIENCE ATLANTIC — C$1,150 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHoly Cross Historical Trust — C$1,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetEASTER SEALS NOVA SCOTIA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC BALLET THEATER OF CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENISON UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrench for the Future — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBusiness is Jammin' Society — C$750 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Toskan Casale Foundation — C$700 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HALIFAX REGION — C$500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN ASSOCIATION OF CAREER EDUCATORS AND EMPLOYERS — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFONDS ROD HARQUAIL FUND INCORPORATED — C$400 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLaing House Foundation — C$318 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGenealogical Association of Nova Scotia — C$250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIWK Health Centre Charitable Foundation — C$200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL YOUTH PROJECT SOCIETY — C$180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQE II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$170 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER CANADA — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA HALL SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Diabetes Association — C$100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVON CANADA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Society of Greater Halifax — C$100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeart and Stroke Foundation of — C$100 over 2y, 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 Community Foundat…Sisters of Charity Mo…United Way Maritimes/…River Philip Foundati…J and W Murphy Founda…The Windsor FoundationBlack Family Foundati…The Medavie Foundatio…The Wadih M. Fares Fa…United Way of Cape Br…Masonic Foundation of…United Way of Colches…
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia SocietyNS26.7× affinity26 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 · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · River Philip Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · Black Family Foundation · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · The Wadih M. Fares Family Foundation · United Way of Cape Breton County · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · United Way of Colchester County

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 111 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 teaching institutions.

Source object 119189900:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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