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Stellarton, NS · Private foundation

Sobey MacGregor Foundation

Donates to other qualified charities.

C$62k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$14k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$48k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NOVA SCOTIA SPCAC$25,000
CHIGNECTO - CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE EDUCATIONC$22,500
SUMMER STREET INDUSTRIES FOUNDATIONC$5,000
PICTOU COUNTY CHRISTMAS FUNDC$5,000
UNITED WAY OF PICTOU COUNTYC$2,500
MS SOCIETY OF CANADAC$1,500
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.

51%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$128k · 7 repeat orgsC$125k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
5

Total granted

C$128k
C$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • NS
    NOVA SCOTIA SPCA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$50k · revenue +22%
  • CC
    CHIGNECTO - CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE EDUCATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$27k · revenue +0%
  • SS
    SUMMER STREET INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$15k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • MC
    MCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -11%
  • TD
    THE DISCOVERY CENTRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue -14%
  • GD
    GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +1%

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
East Pictou Rural High Educational Foundation

Scholarships for graduating students from pictou east geographical area

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2
Strait Regional Centre for Education

Provide P-12 education to students in Antigonish Guysborough Inverness and Richmond Counties. Manages the centre for education assets and the issuance of scholarships and bursaries to graduating students.

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3
Stem Camp Foundation

advancement of education

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4
Nova Scotia Community College Foundation

NSCC Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the NSCC supporting the College's vision and mission to transform Nova Scotia one learner at a time build Nova Scotia's economy and quality of life through education and innovation and promise to…

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5
Read to Me! Foundation Inc.

Promoting literacy in the Province of Nova Scotia through funding of the Read To Me Nova Scotia Literacy Program.

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6
Science North

Develop and construct educational science exhibits Develop and delivery educational science programs to the public children teachers and schools through the operation of two science centers including theaters traveling exhibits and…

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7
Kinark Foundation

The Kinark Foundation advances the social and emotional well-being of children and youth by raising funds and creating awareness in support of Kinark Child and Family Services and other organizations focusing on children's mental health.…

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8
The Pictou County Fuel Fund Society
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9
Penticton Secondary Schools Bursary and Scholarship Foundation

Collection of donations and disbursement of bursaries

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10
Moncton S.P.C.a. Charitable Foundation Inc.

Manages investment funds to be used exclusively for the preservation and prevention of cruelty to animals.

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11
Métis Education Foundation

The foundation has continued its strategy in which the foundation partners with post-secondary education institutions to establish endowment funds and related investments where the earnings of such endowments are used to provide bursaries…

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12
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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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 Montcrest School. 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

12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNOVA SCOTIA SPCA — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMCMICHAEL CANADIAN ART FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHIGNECTO - CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE EDUCATION — C$26,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMONTCREST SCHOOL — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMER STREET INDUSTRIES FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetPICTOU COUNTY CHRISTMAS FUND — C$15,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetPICTOU COUNTY WOMEN'S RESOURCE AND SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE SO — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF PICTOU COUNTY — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetDAVID FOSTER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$3,500 over 3y, 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.

D.R. Sobey FoundationUnited Way Maritimes/…United Way of Colches…The Community Foundat…Doane Grant Thornton …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Private Giving Founda…Charitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…United Way of Greater…My Tribute Gift Found…
D.R. Sobey FoundationNS9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: D.R. Sobey Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · United Way of Colchester County · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Private Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift 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 12 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 774558209:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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