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Stellarton, NS · Private foundation

The David and Faye Sobey Foundation

The foundation made donations to other registered charities during the year.

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$45k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$660k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$500k
C$25,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$50M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IWK FOUNDATIONC$500,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSEC$200,000
FATHERS OF CONFEDERATIONC$110,000
DARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITALC$100,000
ACADIA UNIVERSITYC$100,000
SHIP HECTOR SOCIETYC$75,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW GLASGOWC$75,000
SOLDERS MEMORIAL HOSPITALC$25,000
MARITIME CONSERVATORY OF PERFORMING ARTSC$20,000
SHIPS COMPANY THEATREC$5,000
PICTOU COUNTY CHIRSTMAS FUNDC$5,000
HEALTH ARTS SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC CANADA THROUGH CANADA HELPSC$5,000
UNITED WAY OF PICTOU COUNTYC$3,000
NEW GLASGOW MUSIC FESTIVALC$2,500
SALVATION ARMY - WESTVILLEC$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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$16M · 24 repeat orgsC$678k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
16

Total granted

C$16M
C$573k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+4%

Still filing today

96%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$105k 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

  • SM
    SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$9.1M · revenue +5%
  • QI
    QE II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$1.4M · revenue +29%
  • NS
    NOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$902k · revenue +492%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SYDNEY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$148k · revenue +36%
  • MU
    MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDALAND
    one grant, 2023 · C$110k · revenue +4%
  • NS
    NOVA SCOTIA SPCAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +52%

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.

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Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
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2
The Maritime Heart Center

The Maritime Heart Center is a non-profit organization that was incorporated in 1977 under the Nova Scotia Societies Act.Its mandate is to provide world class care to patients in the Maritimes with cardiovascular disease and to be an…

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3
Scotia Festival of Music Foundation

Investment of endowment portfolio to support classical chamber music in Nova Scotia.

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4
Nova Scotia Masterworks Awards 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
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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7
North Shore Health Research Foundation

The charity funded various health care research projects.

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8
Norfolk General Hospital Foundation

Norfolk General Hospital Foundation is a public foundation which receives and maintains funds to use and apply from time to time on all or part of the capital or income therefrom the benefit of Norfolk General Hospital's medical…

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9
Bravura Nova Scotia

Endowments faculty fellowships bursaries scholarships and cash prizes awarded to qualifying students and teachers in Nova Scotia.

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10
Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation

Radiothon; festival of the greens & because you care fundraisers; conducted direct mail campaign for specific equipment for the nova scotia health authority. received memorial donations and endowments.

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11
Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Foundation

Fundraising activities for Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centres, Marketing/Awareness Programs,

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12
Northumberland Fisheries Museum and Heritage Association

The Northumberland Fisheries Museum maintains a collection of artifacts documents photographs and miscellanea pertaining to the history and culture of the fishery along the North Shore of Nova Scotia and those parts of the Northumberland…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queen Elizabeth Ii Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc. and the most unlike its peers is New Glasgow Music Festival 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

42 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. 42 of the 43 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY — C$9,100,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetQE II HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$1,400,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST — C$901,500 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetDalhousie University — C$800,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetIWK FOUNDATION — C$750,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetACADIA UNIVERSITY — C$500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — C$500,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMARTIN FAMILY INITIATIVE — C$500,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetSt. Francis Xavier Univeristy — C$375,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFATHERS OF CONFEDERATION — C$330,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSHIP HECTOR SOCIETY — C$250,000 over 3y, 35% of budgetTHE RIDEAU HALL FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$200,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SYDNEY FOUNDATION — C$148,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDALAND — C$110,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA SPCA — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetChildrens Wish Foundation — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NEW GLASGOW — C$75,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetPictou County Christmas Fund — C$64,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetLahey Clinic Canada Foundation — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPICTOU WEST FOOD BANK — C$50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCAMP TRIUMPH — C$35,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetMARITIME CONSERVATORY OF PERFORMING ARTS — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOLDERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHORIZON ACHIEVEMENT CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNova Scotia Youth Orchestra — C$25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSHIPS COMPANY THEATRE (CANADAHELPS.ORG) — C$18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEW GLASGOW FESTIVAL — C$16,250 over 8y, 12% of budgetST MARY'S RIVER ASSOCIATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetHEALTH ARTS SOCIETY OF ATLANTIC CANADA THROUGH CANADA HELPS — C$10,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetPictou County Fuel Fund — C$8,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetFARM AND FOOD CARE — C$8,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSALVATION ARMY - WESTVILLE — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHIPS COMPANY THEATRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetABERCROMBIE FIRE DEPARTMENT — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWESTERN REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIVER VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMANUELS RIVER NATURAL HERITAGE SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE NOVA SCOTIA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

River Philip Foundati…J and W Murphy Founda…United Way Maritimes/…The Community Foundat…Doane Grant Thornton …The Windsor FoundationThe Sobey FoundationD.R. Sobey FoundationHarrison McCain Found…The McCain FoundationThe Spatz FoundationArthur L. Irving Fami…
River Philip FoundationNS18.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: River Philip Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · The Sobey Foundation · D.R. Sobey Foundation · Harrison McCain Foundation · The McCain Foundation · The Spatz Foundation · Arthur L. Irving Family 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 43 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 870838562:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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