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Carleton Corner, NS · Private foundation

The Edward Young Reid II and Lester John Bartson III Charitable Foundation

The foundation makes donations to registered charities supporting the following objectives: animal welfare (domestic and wild); conservation and ecology; awareness and appreciation of canadian heritage and history; scholarships for university students

C$4k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,150
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$16k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BC CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$2,000
NOVA SCOTIA S.P.C.A.C$1,150
NORTH MOUNTAIN ANIMAL SANCTUARY SOCIETYC$400
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$36k · 6 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

C$36k
C$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
100%

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

  • BC
    BC CONSERVATION FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$12k · revenue +15%
  • CM
    Canadian Maritime Heritage Foundation
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$5k · revenue +109%
  • NM
    North Moutain Animal Sanctuary Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4k · revenue +227%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DONKEY SANCTUARY OF CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k · revenue +14%
  • NS
    Nova Scotia Museum
    one grant, 2017 · C$800 · revenue +12%

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
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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2
National Wildlife Centre

NWC is focused on helping sick injured and orphaned native wildlife species through wildlife medical care rehabilitation & training. More than 500 animals were seen for medical treatment over the past year and most were released by…

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3
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists

Nature Nova Scotia (also known as the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) exists to aid in the communication and cooperation among naturalists natural history societies and other nature-focused groups in Nova Scotia. We profile and…

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4
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

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5
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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6
Humane World Foundation Canada

Friends of humane society international for the protection and conservation of animals is a leading force for animal protection representing tens of thousands of members and constituents across the country. we are an effective voice for…

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7
Animal Alliance of Canada Fund

1.to promote the welfare of wildlife by conducting research relating to human/wildlife conflicts and non-lethal solutions and disseminate the results to different levels of government and the general public. 2.to promote the welfare of…

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8
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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9
New Brunswick Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals/Société protectrice des animaux (Noveau-Brunswick)

Develop and supervise a highly skilled team of animal protection services - who investigate animal abuse and neglect complaints across nb including laying charges under the spca act and the criminal code of canada. respond to animal…

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10
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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11
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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12
Canada's Accredited Zoos and Aquariums/Aquariums et Zoos accrédités du Canada.

In 2024 caza focused on enhancing the conservation education/information content of its digital platforms by conducting research and creating easy-to-understand sharable digital collateral. caza also re-designed its website to emphasis…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty and the most unlike its peers is Canadian Maritime Heritage Foundation. 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

8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
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 budgetBC CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$12,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Animal Protection — C$10,555 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Maritime Heritage Foundation — C$4,750 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetNorth Moutain Animal Sanctuary Society — C$3,900 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetTHE DONKEY SANCTUARY OF CANADA — C$2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA S.P.C.A. — C$2,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNature Convervancy Canada — C$1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNova Scotia Museum — C$800 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 Eric S. Margolis …Canada GivesBenefAction FoundationVancouver FoundationStrategic Charitable …Charities Aid Foundat…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way East Ontar…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS8.6× affinity5 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 Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolis · Canada Gives · BenefAction Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 8 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 854296399:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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