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Chester Basin, NS · Public foundation

The Gordon Foundation for Children and Youth

The foundation was formed to improve the mental and emotional health of children and youth.

C$11k
Granted FY2022
5
Grants FY2022
1
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$225k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERSC$3,000
VEITH HOUSEC$3,000
ST GEORGE'S YOUTH NET - YOUTH EXPLORER'S PROGRAMC$2,000
HITCHINBROOK FARM SOCIETYC$2,000
YMCA HALIFAXC$500
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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$31k · 5 repeat orgsC$29k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
11

Total granted

C$31k
C$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+68%

Still filing today

80%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22
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

  • VH
    VEITH HOUSE
    4× · 2019–2022 · C$12k · revenue +65%
  • SG
    ST GEORGE'S YOUTH NET - YOUTH EXPLORER'S PROGRAM
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$8k · revenue +65%
  • AI
    AFRICA INLAND MISSION CAMP SOAR
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$5k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • NE
    NORTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue +207%
  • XY
    X-PROJECT YOUTH LEADERSHIP WEEKENDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +30%
  • DF
    DARTMOUTH FAMILY CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue +68%

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
Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Halifax

The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Halifax provides a safe supportive place where children and youth can experience new opportunities overcome barriers and build positive relationships. The club provides recreational educational cultural…

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2
North York Women's Resource Centre

NYWC delivers programs for women by women. Programs include: • Women’s Empowerment – A skill-based series that builds on women’s strengths and personal power to promote self-confidence and success. • Violence Prevention and Support…

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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
Family Service of Eastern Nova Scotia

Counselling - families couples and individuals educational programs children and youth services

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5
The Laing House Association

The laing house association is a peer support organization for youth and young adults aged 16 to 30 who are living with mental illness. our programs centre on recovery strategies and support for youth. we provide employment services…

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6
North Shore Neighbourhood House

Childcare -senior's programs -youth support -wellness -food security

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7
North House

North house provides a wide range of housing and support programs for those who are at risk or in crisis within the communitied or north durham. the programs are aimed at helping low income families and individuals in need of subsidized…

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8
Community Justice Society-Halifax Region

Restorative justice programming provides youth and adults with an alternative to the criminal justice system other inclusive programs include: stoplift options to anger (o2a) the hive girls group restorative options for youth in care…

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9
Eating Disorders Nova Scotia Association

Support for those impacted by eating disorders including peer support education and assistance navigating resources. Nutrition counselling Psychological Counselling

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10
Sexual Health Nova Scotia Society

Provides sexual and reproductive health education promotion and awareness in nova scotia through our member centres throughout the province. this includes capacity building and professional development for communities and professionals who…

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11
Nova Village Nova Scotia Family Support Service Hub Society

The Centre offers a variety of Programs and services free of charge: -weekly coffee drop in -Parenting Journey Program (In home based support program with children / teens ages 3- 16) -recreation programs /fitness/health and wellness…

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12
Health Equity Alliance of Nova Scotia

Advocacy Services Complementary and Alternative Therapies Program Hospital TV/Telephone Services Drop-in Centre Support and Referrals Treatment Information Community Information Sessions Home/Hospital Visits personal hygiene products and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St.George's Youthnet Society and the most unlike its peers is Reachability 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

13 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. 13 of the 18 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVEITH HOUSE — C$11,932 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetST GEORGE'S YOUTH NET - YOUTH EXPLORER'S PROGRAM — C$7,970 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetAFRICA INLAND MISSION CAMP SOAR — C$4,700 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHITCHINBROOK FARM SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetNORTH END COMMUNITY HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetX-PROJECT YOUTH LEADERSHIP WEEKEND — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDARTMOUTH FAMILY CENTRE — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNDERCURRENT YOUTH CENTRE — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHELBURNE COUNTY YOUTH HEALTH AND SUPPORT ASSOCIATION — C$1,784 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTRI-COUNTY WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREACHABILITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA HALIFAX — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Community Foundat…Mental Health Foundat…United Way Maritimes/…J and W Murphy Founda…Halifax Youth Foundat…The Windsor FoundationTELUS Friendly Future…Sisters of Charity Mo…Flemming Charitable F…Halifax Association f…Masonic Foundation of…Shoppers Foundation f…
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia SocietyNS13.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · J and W Murphy Foundation · Halifax Youth Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · Flemming Charitable Foundation · Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes

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 18 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 2022-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 118796036:2022-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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