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Truro, NS · Private foundation

The George W. Wilson and Teresa Madelyn (Merriam) Wilson Foundation

The foundation invests in effective organizations and groups striving to build sustainable capacity in their communities.

C$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$125k
C$15,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY BEATY CENTREC$25,000
NATIONAL SPORT TRUST FUND PADDLES UP CANADAC$25,000
CORRIDOR COMMUNITY OPTIONS FOR ADULTSC$15,000
WARD 5 RELOCATION CENTREC$15,000
SOLIDIERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$15,000
WINDMILL MICROLENDINGC$10,000
EASTERN FRONT THEATREC$10,000
ALICE HOUSEC$10,000
DASC INDUSTRIESC$5,000
02Your 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 Talent Trust

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

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2
Nova Scotia Community College

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 &…

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3
Independent Living Nova Scotia Association

transitional and pre-employment programming support services for self managed care shared services programming/housing food insecurity programming peer support events self advocacy support

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4
Symphony Nova Scotia Society

Symphony Nova Scotia enriches the lives of Nova Scotians through creative professional performance of a broad spectrum of orchestral music. We offer over 60 live performances of symphonic music each year to the public in Halifax and…

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5
Society for Equine-Assisted Services Nova Scotia

Provide therapeutic horse back riding programs to support the physical mental and emotional well-being of persons with diabilities

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6
Homes for Independent Living (Nova Scotia)

To provide training for residents and life skills necessary to progress to independent living.

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7
Shakespeare By the Sea Theatre Society

Theatrical productions. A summer/fall festival promoting the works of William Shakespeare and offering a family-oriented indoor/outdoor theatre venue with voluntary donation. Classes are offered for voice and theatre in The Studio…

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8
Halifax Summer Opera Festival Association
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9
Nova Scotia Seamanship Education Society

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

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10
Lunenburg School of the Arts

Lunenburg school of the arts offers workshops led by professional art educators and working artists

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11
Harbour Theatre Society

A summer theatre festival as well as an eclectic assortment of other original and licensed live theatre performances throughout the year. Improvisational('improv') theatre group meets weekly and performs irregularly during the year.…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Horizon Achievement Centre Society and the most unlike its peers is Soldiers Memorial Hospital 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

29 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. 29 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHospice Society of Halifax — C$60,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY BEATY CENTRE — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBONNY LEA FARM — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFeed Nova Scotia — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS — C$25,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMERMAID THEATRE OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHALIFAX DANCE — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA INC. — C$20,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetBRIGADOON — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLUNENBURG ACADEMY OF MUSIC PERFORMANCE — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetAUTISM SOCIETY OF NEWFOUNDLAND — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHORIZON ACHIEVEMENT CENTRE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBryony House — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFRONTIER COLLEGE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORRIDOR COMMUNITY OPTIONS FOR ADULTS — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWARD 5 RELOCATION CENTRE — C$15,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSOLIDIERS MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWEE CARE DEVELOPMENTAL CENTRE — C$13,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALICE HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEASTERN FRONT THEATRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNova Scotia Sea School — C$8,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetINVERNESS COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE ARTS — C$7,500 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetLOVE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCECILIAN CONCERTS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetDASC INDUSTRIES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…The Windsor FoundationUnited Way Maritimes/…The Community Foundat…River Philip Foundati…Halifax Youth Foundat…Black Family Foundati…Craig FoundationSisters of Charity Mo…Colin and Belle MacDo…Mental Health Foundat…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
J and W Murphy FoundationNS16.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: J and W Murphy Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · River Philip Foundation · Halifax Youth Foundation · Black Family Foundation · Craig Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 30 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 892149402:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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