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Halifax, NS · Private foundation

The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundation

Provide funding to qualified donees which contribute to the relief of poverty and to advance the standard of living for disadvantaged groups such as seniors and young people.

C$342k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$52k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$140k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$150k
C$10,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$7.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHWOOD FOUNDATIONC$100,000
VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES FOR CANADAC$50,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$30,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIAC$25,000
WARDS NEIGHBORHOOD CENTREC$20,000
QEII HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$20,000
THE SCOTTISH RITE CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$15,000
YWCA HALIFAXC$10,000
BRUNSWICK STREET MISSIONC$10,000
BAYSIDE CAMP AND RETREAT CENTREC$10,000
HOLLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$9,000
HOME OF THE GUARDIAN ANGELC$8,000
BGC GREATER HALIFAXC$7,500
BIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GREATER HALIFAXC$7,500
PHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAMC$6,000
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 21 repeat orgsC$28k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
6

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+95%

Still filing today

95%
67%

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%’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

  • NF
    NORTHWOOD FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$865k · revenue +649%
  • AS
    Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$205k · revenue +85%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$165k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • BS
    BRUNSWICK STREET MISSION
    one grant, 2020 · C$8k
  • YO
    YMCA OF GREATER HALIFAX/DARTMOUTHgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$8k · revenue +95%
  • CF
    CHEBUCTO FAMILY CENTRE
    one grant, 2020 · C$8k

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 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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2
Ronald Mcdonald House Maritimes Association

Ronald McDonald House Charities Atlantic Association's mission is to create find and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children and their families. The Association keeps the families with sick children…

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3
Ymca of Southwest Nova Scotia Association

The ymca of southwest nova scotia is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. we do this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young adults; promoting healthy living; and fostering social…

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4
Northwood Homecare Incorporated

Homecare – the provision of home support and health care services to residents living within the nova scotia health authority. adult day – the provision of respite care to families within the halifax regional municipality who have members…

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5
The Navy League of Canada (Halifax Branch)

Child youth programs and related fundraising activities

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6
Northwoodcare Halifax Incorporated

We operate a long term care facility for 345 long term care residents and 40 residential care residents. we manage a community centre that provides recreational and social programming to 550 senior citizens in the community.

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7
Homebridge Youth Society

HomeBridge provides care and housing for children ages 12 to 18 who are in the care of the Province of NS (Community Services). This is done through 5 long term care homes and one short-term emergency stabilization (crisis) centre.…

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8
Ymca of Cape Breton

The ymca of cape breton is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. the ymca does this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young adults; promoting healthy living; and fostering social…

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9
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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10
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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11
North End Opportunities Fund Society

Neof raises funds to help young people facing financial barriers to pursue their dreams talents and interests. our goal is to provide funding to applicants who are under the age of 18 and live in the north end of halifax (north of cogswell…

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12
The North Grove Society

A community hub located in one of halifax's most challenged communities that operates a family centre and a community food centre offering programs to people to learn and connect through family support food and friendship.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ymca of Greater Halifax/Dartmouth and the most unlike its peers is Timberlea Baptist Church. 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

24 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. 24 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHWOOD FOUNDATION — C$865,195 over 8y, 17% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Nova Scotia — C$205,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$165,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetWard S Neighboahood Centre — C$155,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetTHE SCOTTISH RITE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$135,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetVICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES FOR CANADA — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBAYSIDE CAMP AND RETREAT CENTRE — C$63,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetYWCA HALIFAX — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBRUNSWICK STREET MISSION — C$40,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAM — C$33,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHOME OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL — C$31,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$31,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$31,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetQEII HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$22,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOLLAND COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNSCC FOUNDATION — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetHALIFAX WEST FOOD BANK — C$12,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetCanuck Place Children's Hospice — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHEBUCTO CONNECTIONS — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA OF GREATER HALIFAX/DARTMOUTH — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM NOVA SCOTIA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTIMBERLEA UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND — C$500 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 Maritimes/…The Community Foundat…Halifax Youth Foundat…The Windsor FoundationSisters of Charity Mo…River Philip Foundati…J and W Murphy Founda…Black Family Foundati…Masonic Foundation of…Mental Health Foundat…Halifax Protestant In…Halifax Association f…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS20.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Halifax Youth Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · River Philip Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · Black Family Foundation · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · Halifax Protestant Infants Foundation · Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor

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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 829393925:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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