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Bedford, NS · Private foundation

The Bert and Shari Frizzell Family Foundation

The foundation will accept gifts donations bequests and legacies of every desciption from the settlor or from any other person ('contributions') will receive and maintain contributions as part of the trust fund and will apply all or par of the principal of the trust fund from time to time to registered charities or qualified donees…

C$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$22k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$51k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACADIA UNIVERSITYC$25,000
HANTS COUNTY CHRISTMAS ANGELS SOCIETYC$16,000
WE ARE YOUNGC$10,000
FAMILY SOSC$7,000
VEITH HOUSEC$5,000
UNITED WAY HALIFAXC$5,000
CALVIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHC$3,000
DALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATIONC$1,000
NATIONAL SPORT TRUST FUNDC$1,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$285k · 14 repeat orgsC$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
6

Total granted

C$285k
C$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
-14%

Still filing today

86%
83%

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%’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

  • HC
    HANTS COUNTY CHRISTMAS ANGELS SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$61k · revenue +17% · 29% of their budget
  • AU
    ACADIA UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$49k · revenue +12%
  • WA
    WE ARE YOUNG
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$47k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • PY
    PHOENIX YOUTH
    one grant, 2021 · C$6k · revenue -14%
  • CR
    CANADIAN RUGBY UNION
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k
  • BB
    BERNIE'S BUDDIES
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue -46% · 60% of their budget

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
Halifax Humanities Society

The Halifax Humanities program provides opportunities and engagement with the arts to those who otherwise would lack such access. The program supports the students and the learning environment with transportation childcare books and…

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2
Halifax Association for Community Living

Provided 'best buddy' volunteer program where university students volunteer to be a buddy with a child with intellectual disabilities run a day care and after school care facility. family and crisis counselling.

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3
Phoenix Youth Programs

Phoenix Youth Programs is a non-profit organization located in Kjipuktuk/Halifax NS. Since 1987 we have been dedicated to supporting youth their families and communities across multiple locations. Services include housing therapy education…

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4
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Halifax

Big Brothers Big Sisters facilitates and supports developmental relationships between a child/youth facing adversity and an adult mentor. Programs are customized to the needs of the youth served to mitigate the long-term effects of adverse…

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5
Halifax Children's Foundation

Veith house community program

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6
Dress for Success Halifax Society

The organization helps low income women make tailored transitions into the work force. it provides suits confidence boosts and career development for women.

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7
Halifax Youth Foundation

Providing funding to agencies carrying out programs for the benefit of children and youth in nova scotia that are consistent with the objects of the foundation.

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8
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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9
The Darmouth Gemeral Hospital Auxiliary

The DGH Auxiliary is a volunteer charity operating with the Dartmouth General Hospital. The auxiliary operates the hospital gift shop and other fund raising activities to raise funds for the hospital's equipment needs. The auxiliary also…

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10
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Halifax

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Halifax provides a safe supportive place where children and youth can experience new opportunities overcome barriers and build positive relationships. The club provides recreational educational cultural…

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11
Halifax Refugee Clinic Association

The Halifax Refugee Clinic continued its mission to provide no-cost legal and settlement services to refugee claimants and at-risk non-status migrants who are unable to afford private counsel.

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12
A Hand Up Society

Charitable activities for relief of poverty in Springhill and Parrsboro Nova Scotia including; Food program - food is distributed to students of low-income families. Gifts of necessities - Christmas gifts of clothing basic necessities and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Souls Harbour Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is We Are Young 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

18 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. 18 of the 20 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
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 budgetHANTS COUNTY CHRISTMAS ANGELS SOCIETY — C$61,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$48,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWE ARE YOUNG — C$47,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetFAMILY SOS — C$29,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED WAY HALIFAX — C$23,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFAIRVIEW PASTORAL CHURCH — C$15,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPRESCOTT GROUP SOCIETY — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVEITH HOUSE — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetQEII FOUNDATION — C$10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLUB INCLUSION — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCALVIN PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$8,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPHOENIX YOUTH — C$5,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOULS HARBOUR — C$3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBERNIE'S BUDDIES — C$3,000 over 1y, 60% of budgetDALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSALIST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF HALIFAX — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$2,500 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.

The Community Foundat…United Way Maritimes/…J and W Murphy Founda…Sisters of Charity Mo…River Philip Foundati…Flemming Charitable F…The Windsor FoundationThe Medavie Foundatio…Halifax Association f…Walker Wood FoundationThe Joyce Family Foun…Mental Health Foundat…
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia SocietyNS12.7× affinity9 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 · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · J and W Murphy Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · River Philip Foundation · Flemming Charitable Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor · Walker Wood Foundation · The Joyce Family Foundation · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia

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 20 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 773846332:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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