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The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society

The community foundation of nova scotia is a public foundation created by and for the people of nova scotia.

C$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
209
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$346k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 209 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k130 grants · C$362k
  • C$10k–50k62 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$50k–250k14 grants · C$1.2M
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$909k
C$5,000
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARINERS CENTRE HEALTH AND WELLNESS FUNDC$346,123
SHELBURNE COUNTY YOUTH HEALTH AND SUPPORT ASSOCIATIONC$295,000
ST. JOHN'S UNITED CHURCHC$268,127
ULNOOWEG EDUCATION CENTREC$186,000
NSCC FOUNDATIONC$159,240
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$126,316
COBEQUID ARTS COUNCILC$106,000
WOLFVILLE L'ARCHE HOMEFIRES SOCIETYC$72,193
FAIRVIEW RESOURCE CENTREC$70,500
BADDECK IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATIONC$70,025
VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES FOR CANADAC$69,400
NOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUSTC$68,746
SHYFT YOUTH SERVICESC$58,000
YARMOUTH LIFE SKILLS FOR DISABLED ADULTSC$54,400
L'ARCHE HALIFAXC$50,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Nova Scotia
C$14M
Ontario
C$805k
New Brunswick
C$133k
British Columbia
C$83k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$82k
Prince Edward Island
C$74k
Quebec
C$11k
Alberta
C$3k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$11M · 203 repeat orgsC$5.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

203 repeat relationships — 126 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 82 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

203
209

Total granted

C$11M
C$3.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+27%

Still filing today

90%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.6M 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

  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$475k · revenue +41%
  • SJ
    ST. JOHN'S UNITED CHURCH
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$337k · revenue +474% · 84% of their budget
  • TY
    THE YMCA OF GREATER HALIFAX/DARTMOUTH
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$292k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • CM
    CELTIC MUSIC INTERPRETIVE CENTRE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · C$408k
  • CG
    CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDS CANADA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$177k · revenue +47%
  • DG
    DARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$105k · revenue +136%

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.

1
Nova Scotia Seamanship Education Society

Provides support of seamanship education through providing scholarships to training programs.

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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
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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4
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
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5
Nova Scotia Talent Trust

The nova scotia talent trust offers scholarships to nova scotians studying in the arts

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6
Science Atlantic

Coordinate conferences for post-secondary students to present research - coordinate lecture tours of scientists in atlantic canada - present award for outstanding science communication and research to students - facilitate meetings of…

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7
Nova Scotia Sea School

Summer seamanship programs for teenagers. boat building and wilderness eduction programs.

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8
Visual Arts Nova Scotia

to foster the development awareness and understanding of the visual arts in Nova Scotia to encourage the production exhibition and appreciation of works by nova scotia's visual artists; and to speak for visual artists in areas of common…

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9
Nova Scotia League for Equal Opportunities

Provincial access awareness disability student scholarships provincial disability partnership poverty reduction strategy women with disabilities disability information sharing sessions public and member disability education disability…

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10
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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11
Nova Scotia Health Authority (Nsha)

The nova scotia health authority delivers inpatient and outpatient health care services to nova scotians at various hosptals clinics and health centres throughout the province of nova scotia. services provided include acute care mental…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southwest Nova Scotia Association and the most unlike its peers is Paradise Historical 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

376 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. 376 of the 494 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.

17
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
102
Early backer (in before they grew)
370/376
Grantees still filing
247/376
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$474,666 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY — C$358,177 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetST. JOHN'S UNITED CHURCH — C$336,779 over 6y, 84% of budgetSHELBURNE COUNTY YOUTH HEALTH AND SUPPORT ASSOCIATION — C$295,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE YMCA OF GREATER HALIFAX/DARTMOUTH — C$292,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NOVA SCOTIA — C$271,129 over 3y, 13% of budgetSt. Francis Xavier University Governors of — C$263,524 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$241,025 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST — C$225,055 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetNSCC FOUNDATION — C$214,240 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMACPHEE CENTRE FOR CREATIVE LEARNING — C$206,067 over 6y, 15% of budgetGAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$205,833 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$200,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetTHE VICTIMS OF FAMILY VIOLENCE ASSOCIATION — C$190,000 over 3y, 9.1% of budgetULNOOWEG EDUCATION CENTRE — C$186,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetCHARITABLE GIFT FUNDS CANADA FOUNDATION — C$176,548 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNSCC ADMISSIONS — C$176,173 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLACK SOCIAL WORKERS — C$176,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetCOBEQUID ARTS COUNCIL — C$172,914 over 3y, 19% of budgetFAIRVIEW RESOURCE CENTRE — C$163,450 over 2y, 16% of budgetTHE NORTH GROVE SOCIETY — C$161,684 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetHALIFAX REFUGEE CLINIC ASSOCIATION — C$158,694 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetLAKECITY EMPLOYMENT SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$156,807 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSYMPHONY NOVA SCOTIA — C$155,100 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetVICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES FOR CANADA — C$147,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HALIFAX — C$145,664 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$145,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetADSUM FOR WOMEN AND CHILDREN — C$144,171 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetMI'KMAW NATIVE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLA PICASSE CENTRE COMMUNAUTAIRE CULTUREL — C$121,144 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetCHEBUCTO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — C$118,750 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetYARMOUTH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$118,500 over 5y, 46% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF MAINLAND NOVA SCOTIA — C$116,320 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetYMCA OF SOUTHWEST NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION — C$109,566 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAUTISM NOVA SCOTIA — C$106,136 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetDARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$105,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetSAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$101,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — C$100,336 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$100,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHORIZON ACHIEVEMENT CENTRE SOCIETY — C$98,940 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CAPE BRETON — C$98,236 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetANTIGONISH AFFORDABLE HOUSING SOCIETY — C$97,255 over 1y, 16% of budgetSCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$96,200 over 2y, 14% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$91,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGADOON CHILDREN'S CAMP SOCIETY — C$91,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetPICTOU COUNTY WOMEN'S RESOURCE & SEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE — C$90,350 over 1y, 29% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA HIGHLAND SOCIETY — C$89,197 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMAHONE BAY CENTRE SOCIETY — C$86,144 over 5y, 15% 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.

J and W Murphy Founda…Mental Health Foundat…River Philip Foundati…United Way Maritimes/…Halifax Youth Foundat…The Windsor FoundationSisters of Charity Mo…Black Family Foundati…Halifax Association f…Masonic Foundation of…Saint Mary's Universi…Flemming Charitable F…
J and W Murphy FoundationNS48.7× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J and W Murphy Foundation · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · River Philip Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Halifax Youth Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · Black Family Foundation · Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · Saint Mary's University · Flemming Charitable 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 494 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 870389368:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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