Halifax, NS · Private foundation
The Herbert S. and Jean W. Lamb Charitable Foundation
This fdn has been funded with the death of the last spouse.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k6 grants · C$14k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$24k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY | C$75,759 |
| IWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | C$24,242 |
| FORT MASSEY UNITED CHURCH | C$9,091 |
| UNITED WAY OF HALIFAX REGION | C$1,704 |
| The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada | C$1,136 |
| CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY | C$758 |
| THE YMCA OF GREATER HALIFAX/DARTMOUTH | C$758 |
| PARKER STREET FOOD & FURNITURE BANK | C$189 |
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- DUDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · C$454k · revenue +41%
- IHIWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$145k · revenue +58%
- UWUNITED WAY OF HALIFAX REGION8× · 2017–2024 · C$10k · revenue +74%
Funded once
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.
Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…
The Maritime Heart Center is a non-profit organization that was incorporated in 1977 under the Nova Scotia Societies Act.Its mandate is to provide world class care to patients in the Maritimes with cardiovascular disease and to be an…
United Way Newfoundland and Labrador works to advance the common good and create opportunities for a better life for the people of our province. Our vision for Newfoundland and Labrador is a province where all of our neighborhoods are…
Ronald McDonald House Charities Atlantic Association's mission is to create find and support programs that directly improve the health and well being of children and their families. The Association keeps the families with sick children…
University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…
We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…
United Way of Greater Moncton & SENB Region Inc is a year long fundraising organization that invests in community development programs and initiatives to build a better place to live work raise a family and retire. We strive to increase…
The QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation continues to raise and grant funds primarily for the benefit of the QEII Health Sciences Centre (part of Nova Scotia Health Authority) to support patient care research and education. The…
The ymca of cape breton is a charity dedicated to strengthening the foundations of communities. the ymca does this by nurturing the potential of children teens and young adults; promoting healthy living; and fostering social…
The YMCA is a charity dedicated to building healthy communities by fostering a sense of belonging for all. By creating safe and welcoming spaces that serve people of all ages backgrounds and abilities the YMCA is committed to ensuring…
The united way of pei is the focal point for community response to poverty. we bring people together to find solutions to some of the most pressing problems faced by the most vulnerable people in the province. we nurture innovation in…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes and the most unlike its peers is Dalhousie University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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.
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 DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds IWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORT MASSEY UNITED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HALIFAX REGION ↗
- Who funds The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE YMCA OF GREATER HALIFAX/DARTMOUTH ↗
- Who funds PARKER STREET FOOD & FURNITURE BANK ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Canadahelps Canadon
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.