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Amherst, NS · Private foundation

The Dr. & Mrs. H. E. Christie Community Foundation

Provides donations to various community organizations for the relief of poverty advancement of education religion health care arts culture and sport and recreation

C$639k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$96k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$62k
  • C$10k–50k16 grants · C$338k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$239k
C$15,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN OF AMHERSTC$95,750
CUMBERLAND HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING SUPPORTC$76,000
CHIGNECTO-CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE FORC$66,900
MUNICIPALITY OF CUMBERLANDC$40,334
CUMBERLAND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONC$37,000
CUMBERLAND COUNTY HOSPICE/PALLIATIVEC$30,000
CUMBERLAND COUNTY TRANSITION HOUSEC$27,000
CUMBERLAND MUSEUM SOCIETYC$26,000
VICTORIAM ORDER OF NURSESC$25,000
NOVA SCOTIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$20,000
LILIIAN ALLBON ANIMAL SHELTERC$20,000
TRINITY ST. STEPHEN'S UNITEDC$19,000
OXFORD PIONEER HERITAGE CLUBC$15,000
MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIAC$15,000
SPRINGHILL BAPTIST CHURCHC$15,000
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.2M · 39 repeat orgsC$470k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
21

Total granted

C$2.2M
C$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+5%

Still filing today

90%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$175k 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

  • CR
    CHIGNECTO-CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE FOR
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$352k · revenue +40%
  • NS
    Nova Scotia Community College Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$140k · revenue +48%
  • CM
    CUMBERLAND MUSEUM SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$135k · revenue +43% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • BB
    BRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$60k · revenue -3%
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF AMHERST - CAMP TIDNISH CHARITABLE TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · C$55k · revenue -57%
  • TO
    TOWN OF AMHERST
    one grant, 2023 · C$26k

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
Northumberland County Foodbanks

Provide food through a food bank for northumberland county communities

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2
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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3
North Cumberland Memorial Hospital Auxiliary

Our auxiliary is active year round with approx 35 members all volunteers accruing aprox 6000 volunteer hours. we support nchcc (nsh) requests for in-patient out-patient palliative and primary health care unmet needs.

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4
The North Cumberland Historical Society

Assistance for genealogical and historical researchers in person by mail telephone or e-mail. collection documentation and storage of genealogical and historical information. publication of genealogical and historical information.

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5
Cumberland Community Schools Society

Afterschool programs for kindergarten to Grade 9 students in our community including homeschool children healthy lunch program including subsidies for those in need community education operations of a youth centre. Cumberland Foodshare…

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6
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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7
Cumberland College
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8
United Way of Cumberland County
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9
Cobequid Community Health Centre Foundation

The Cobequid Foundation raises much needed funds and grants these funds to the Nova Scotia Health Authority - Central Zone for the purpose of supporting the capital equipment needs of the Cobequid Community Health Centre. This fundraising…

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10
Colchester Community Support Society

1. operation of a community foodbank in truro ns. 2. distribution of meal kits to rural areas of colchester county ns.

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11
Nova Scotia Community Transportation Network

Use a community development approach to provide leadership in the development and enhancement of community based transportation services. work closely with service providers in the rural transportation association to help improve service.…

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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 The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society and the most unlike its peers is A.R.J.S./E.B. Chandler Band & Choir Parents 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

62 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. 62 of the 69 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
37/62
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 budgetCHIGNECTO-CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE FOR — C$351,782 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCumberland Health Care Foundation — C$208,725 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetNova Scotia Community College Foundation — C$140,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCUMBERLAND MUSEUM SOCIETY — C$135,450 over 5y, 33% of budgetBRIDGE ADULT SERVICE CENTRE — C$77,008 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCUMBERLAND HOMELESSNESS AND HOUSING SUPPORT — C$76,000 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetYMCA OF CUMBERLAND — C$75,092 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTRINITY ST. STEPHEN'S UNITED — C$70,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetALL SAINTS PARISH — C$68,983 over 4y, 10% of budgetBRIGHT BEGINNINGS CHILD CARE CENTRE — C$60,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetLILLIAN ALLBON ANIMAL SHELTER — C$56,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetVICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF AMHERST — C$45,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE — C$44,150 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetAFTER THE SCHOOL BELL FOOD PROGRAM ORGANIZATION — C$42,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetCUMBERLAND REGIONAL LIBRARY — C$41,400 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCCTS - CUMBERLAND COUNTY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES SOCIETY — C$41,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY CENTRE — C$40,400 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY HOSPICE/PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY TRANSITION HOUSE — C$34,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA 4H COUNCIL — C$27,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSPRINGHILL BAPTIST CHURCH — C$25,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetPARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH — C$24,000 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetCARMA AMHERST — C$23,100 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$22,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetAmherst First Baptist Church — C$21,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSociety for St. Vincent de Paul — C$21,000 over 7y, 24% of budgetCumberland Health Care Auxiliary — C$20,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetARHS/EB CHANDLER BAND & CHOIR PARENTS ASSOCIATION — C$19,230 over 2y, 29% of budgetTHE DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$18,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE FOR CUMERLAND COUNTY — C$17,842 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetIN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE — C$16,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCUMBERLAND GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCumberland Adult Network for Upgrading — C$15,352 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetA HAND UP SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetOXFORD PIONEER HERITAGE CLUB — C$15,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA TRAILS FEDERATION FOR CUMBERLAND SNOWMOBILE CLUB — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetVICTORIA'S QUILTS CANADA — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPARRSBORO BAND ASSOCIATION — C$11,440 over 2y, 12% of budgetPARISH OF PARRSBORO SHORE COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND — C$10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetRCMP FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE SHIP'S COMPANY SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA ATLANTIC REGION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget154 Amhesrst Anson Air Cadet Squadron — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAmherst Food Assistance Network — C$8,500 over 2y, 9.9% of budgetFUNDY WINDS MARSH SOCIETY — C$7,475 over 1y, 45% 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…United Way Maritimes/…Rotary Club of Amhers…Cumberland Adult Netw…United Way of Colches…The Community Foundat…The W. B. Wells Herit…Masonic Foundation of…J and W Murphy Founda…The Windsor FoundationUnited Way of Cumberl…Colin and Belle MacDo…
River Philip FoundationNS26.3× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: River Philip Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Rotary Club of Amherst - Registered Charities Trust · Cumberland Adult Network for Upgrading (Can-U) Association · United Way of Colchester County · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · The W. B. Wells Heritage Foundation · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · J and W Murphy Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · United Way of Cumberland County · Colin and Belle MacDonald 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 69 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 863364501:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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