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Sydney Credit Union Charitable Foundation

The SYDNEY CREDIT UNION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION carried out its charitable purposes through donations to qualified donees and supported an organization that aligned with the health objectives of the foundation.

C$39k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$59k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATHWAYS TO EMPLOYMENT SOCIETYC$20,000
MAIN-A-DIEU COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONC$7,500
PAC AUTISM NOVA SCOTIAC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$3,000
AILEENS PETS WITHOUT VETSC$3,000
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$107k · 10 repeat orgsC$86k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

C$107k
C$47k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+68%

Still filing today

70%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$39k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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 Community College Foundation
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$25k · revenue +48%
  • CB
    CAPE BRETON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$17k · revenue +54%
  • CB
    Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education
    2× · 2018–2020 · C$7k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • NS
    NOVA SCOTIA HIGHLAND VILLAGE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -28%
  • HO
    HOME OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +22%
  • TE
    THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CAPE BRETONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +68%

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
Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design - Cape Breton School

The centre serves the craft community of cape breton island from beginners and recreational practitioners to highly accomplished professionals offering instruction as well as resource and support services. the centre offers a variety of…

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2
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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3
Nova Scotia Community College

The nova scotia community college provides post-secondary education to approximately 20 000 students. covering academic programs across various ares such as: business hospitality health & human services trades & technology applied arts &…

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4
Atlantic Coastal Action Program - Cape Breton

1) public education on wastewater water conservation and source water protection 2) cleanup of public spaces by litter collection and public outreach 3) conserving wildlife and habitat through stream/wetland restoration 4) green jobs…

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5
Sexual Health Nova Scotia Society

Provides sexual and reproductive health education promotion and awareness in nova scotia through our member centres throughout the province. this includes capacity building and professional development for communities and professionals who…

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6
Cape Breton Centre for Sexual Health

Public education regarding sexual health issues for youth and adults

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7
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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8
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Newfoundland Inc.

Big brothers big sisters has been delivering evidence based mentoring programs to children and youth for over 45 years. programs are designed to achieve clear specific outcomes and are created and assessed within the knowledge of the…

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9
Bereaved Families of Cape Breton Society

Resource center and primary support to bereaved families of cape breton

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10
Cape Breton Association of Youth Housing and Programs Initiative

Provide services for youth who are experiencing housing instability or are homeless. we work to eliminate the barriers that are the cause of youth homelessness in the community.

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11
Adult Learning Association of Cape Breton County

The organization provides community based adult learning programs throughout cape breton county. the programs include level 1 and 2 adult literacy ged prepartion and employment readiness.

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12
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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Cape Breton and the most unlike its peers is Pathways to Employment Society. 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

19 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. 19 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
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 Community College Foundation — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCAPE BRETON REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA HIGHLAND VILLAGE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOME OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL — C$5,002 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CAPE BRETON — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAC AUTISM NOVA SCOTIA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALLY CENTRE OF CAPE BRETON — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEVERY WOMEN'S FUNDRAISING SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWHITNEY PIER YOUTH CLUB — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Nova Scotia SPCA - Aileens Pets without Vets Co-op Ltd. — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters — C$3,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetYMCA OF CAPE BRETON — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetVON Cape Breton Metro — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCape Breton Regional Library — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe United Way of Cape Breton — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

United Way of Cape Br…The Community Foundat…The John and Jeanne E…United Way Maritimes/…Corporation of the Si…Mental Health Foundat…The Catholic Episcopa…Masonic Foundation of…United Way of Colches…J and W Murphy Founda…River Philip Foundati…Congregation of Notre…
United Way of Cape Breton CountyNS17.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Cape Breton County · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · The John and Jeanne Eyking Family Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Corporation of the Sisters of St Martha · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · The Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Antigonish · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · United Way of Colchester County · J and W Murphy Foundation · River Philip Foundation · Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc.

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 27 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 811282557:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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