Halifax, NS · Private foundation
The Edwards Family Charitable Foundation
To assist the les fortunate by distributing money to other charities in particular for children.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARINERS AQAUTIC FACILITY SWIM | C$20,000 |
| FEED NOVA SCOTIA | C$15,000 |
| LANDMARK EAST SCHOOL | C$15,000 |
| BRIGADOON VILLAGE | C$15,000 |
| WEE CARE DEVELOPMENTAL CENTER | C$15,000 |
| NOVA SCOTIA SPECIAL OLYMPICS | C$15,000 |
| REGIONAL INDEPENDENT STUDENT ASSOCIATION | C$15,000 |
| HOPE BLOOMS | C$10,000 |
| PRESSURE ULCER TREATMENT PROGRAM | C$10,000 |
| DALHOUSIE/PHOENIX | C$10,000 |
| THE FLOWER CART | C$10,000 |
| ENACTUS SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY | C$10,000 |
| MACPHEE CENTRE FOR CREATING LEARNING | C$10,000 |
| TATAMAGOUCHE CENTRE | C$10,000 |
| THE NORTH GROVE | C$10,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k went to new ones.
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
- NSNova Scotia Special Olympics8× · 2017–2024 · C$120k · revenue +26%
- BVBRIGADOON VILLAGE8× · 2017–2024 · C$110k · revenue +70%
- WCWEE CARE DEVELOPMENTAL CENTRE8× · 2017–2024 · C$105k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- IFIWK FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue +28%
- MSMount Saint Vincent Universitygraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +38%
- SASalvation Armygraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue ×66
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
The nova scotia community college provides post-secondary education to approximately 20 000 students. covering academic programs across various ares such as: business hospitality health & human services trades & technology applied arts &…
NSCC Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the NSCC supporting the College's vision and mission to transform Nova Scotia one learner at a time build Nova Scotia's economy and quality of life through education and innovation and promise to…
Training in early childhood development for persons who wish to work in child care centres nursery schools and similar organizations.
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…
Nscad university grants degrees of master of fine arts master of design master of arts in art education bachelors of art in visual arts design (honors) and fine arts. nscad provides assistance and programs in the advancement of education…
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…
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…
To provide training for residents and life skills necessary to progress to independent living.
The autism society of newfoundland and labrador inc. delivers specialized programs and services for individuals with autism spectrum disorder (asd) and their familities/caregivers. programs are evidence based and focused on improving all…
Dartmouth adult service centre (dasc) give individuals the support they need to realize their true potential and become active members of their community. through a variety of vocational day programs and community employment programs.
Provide therapeutic horse back riding programs to support the physical mental and emotional well-being of persons with diabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Easter Seals Nova Scotia and the most unlike its peers is Society of Saint Vincent De Paul - Hope Cottage. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 26 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Nova Scotia Special Olympics ↗
- Who funds BRIGADOON VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds WEE CARE DEVELOPMENTAL CENTRE ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK EAST SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FEED NOVA SCOTIA ↗
- Who funds MACPHEE CNTRE FOR CREATIVE LEARNING ↗
- Who funds Enactus Saint Mary's University ↗
- Who funds DARTMOUTH FAMILY CENTRE ↗
- Who funds COADY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HOPE COTTAGE ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS NS ↗
- Who funds Regional Independent Student Association ↗
- Who funds DALHOUSIE/PHEONIX ↗
- Who funds NORTHWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TATAMAGOUCHE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds PRESSURE ULCER TREATMENT PROGRAM - DARTMOUTH GENERAL FOUNDAT ↗
- Who funds Ward 5 Neighbourhood Centre ↗
- Who funds AUSTISM NOVA SCOTIA ↗
- Who funds THE FLOWER CART ↗
- Who funds HOPE BLOOMS ↗
- Who funds Landmark East School ↗
- Who funds IWK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mount Saint Vincent University ↗
- Who funds Salvation Army ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · The Windsor Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · River Philip Foundation · Halifax Youth Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · The Wadih M. Fares Family Foundation · Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur
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.