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The Retired Teachers Foundation

Donors continue to support the retired teachers organization (rto) legacy foundation's efforts to benefit children under the age of 21 years in nova scotia.

C$12k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$785
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ANNAPOLIS VALLEY REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION (BROOKLYNN DIC$1,300
ELLERHOUSE COMMUNITY HALLC$1,300
PACTC$1,300
BARRINGTON LEISURE PARK ORGANIZATIONC$1,300
DOLLY PARTON IMAGINATIONC$785
CENTRE FOR LOCAL PROPERITYC$785
CENTRE FOR LOCAL PROSPERITYC$785
KID'S FIRST ASSOCIATIONC$785
AFTER THE SCHOOL BELL FOOD PROGRAMC$785
L'ARCHE CAPE BRETON SOCIETYC$785
MAGGIE'S PLACEC$785
THE SCOTTISH RITE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION LEARNING CENTREC$785
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER HALIFAXC$785
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$22k · 12 repeat orgsC$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
17

Total granted

C$22k
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • LC
    L'ARCHE CAPE BRETON SOCIETY
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$3k · revenue +77%
  • PC
    Pictou County Roots for Youth
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$2k · revenue +599%
  • AV
    Annapolis Valley Chapter of Autism Nova Scotia
    3× · 2017–2022 · C$2k · revenue +301%

Funded once

  • DF
    DOLLYWOOD FOUNDATION OF CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$900
  • VR
    VALLEY REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIOMgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$700 · revenue +205%
  • FS
    Family Services Association
    one grant, 2018 · C$700 · revenue -14%

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
Chignecto-Central Regional Centre for Education

Delivery of the nova scotia school programs for students from pre-primary to grade 12 throughout the following 4 counties of nova scotia: colchester cumberland east hants & pictou

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2
Halifax Regional Centre for Education

Normal operations of a public school system offering programs from pre-primary through grade 12 in more than 139 schools throughout halifax regional municipality.

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3
Chester and Area Family Resource Centre

Operation of early childhood education programs and daycare facility in Chester Nova Scotia. The Centre's mandate is to provide information resources and services to help reduce isolation improve community resourcefulness and increase…

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4
Big Brothers-Big Sisters of P.E.I. Inc.

Traditional BBBS Program - one-to-one community based program serving children throughout the province. In-school mentoringin Elementary schools in various communities throughout the province. Teen Mentoring for High school students who…

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5
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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6
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Newfoundland Inc.

Big brothers big sisters has been delivering evidence based mentoring programs to children and youth for over 45 years. programs are designed to achieve clear specific outcomes and are created and assessed within the knowledge of the…

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7
Halifax Association for Community Living

Provided 'best buddy' volunteer program where university students volunteer to be a buddy with a child with intellectual disabilities run a day care and after school care facility. family and crisis counselling.

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8
Pictou County Recreation and Athletics Society

Winter Spring and summer wellness and athletics programs for youth/teens. Facilitating spring school track events for schools in and around Pictou County.

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9
Fredericton Regional Family Resource Centre Inc.

Parent education and support

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10
Northern Peninsula Family Resource Centre Inc.

We offer a variety of health social developmental and educational programs families and children 0-12 years of age.

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11
P.E.I. Literacy Alliance Inc.

Ready set learn - tutoring program for kids family literacy workshops essential skills for atlantic fisheries program imigination library

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12
Family and Child Education Anglophone South Inc.

Support opportunities for all children to achieve optimal health and wellness in the many environments where children live grow and learn by providing early intervention services collaborating with the new brunswick department of education…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Halifax and the most unlike its peers is Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada. 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

28 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. 28 of the 36 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
16/28
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 budgetCENTRE FOR LOCAL PROPERITY — C$2,870 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetL'ARCHE CAPE BRETON SOCIETY — C$2,545 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPictou County Roots for Youth — C$2,450 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAnnapolis Valley Chapter of Autism Nova Scotia — C$2,110 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAFTER THE SCHOOL BELL FOOD PROGRAM — C$1,845 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA — C$1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDiabetes Canada and Nova Scotia — C$1,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKID'S FIRST ASSOCIATION — C$1,385 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHINCHINBROOK FARM SOCIETY — C$1,350 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLEARNING CENTRE FOR HALIFAX INC — C$1,310 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSSRCE — C$1,310 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPACT — C$1,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBARRINGTON LEISURE PARK ORGANIZATION — C$1,300 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetELLERHOUSE COMMUNITY HALL — C$1,300 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetDOLLY PARTON IMAGINATION — C$1,185 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$785 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE — C$785 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALLEY REGIONAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIOM — C$700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Services Association — C$700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA HEMOPHILIA SOCIETY — C$700 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPICTOU UNITED CHURCH — C$650 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAVRCE — C$600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHEBUCTO COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION — C$600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSRCE STRAIT REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF PICTOU COUNTY — C$600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBHCGH — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTER OF COLCHESTER — C$400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE BRETON - VICTORIA REGIONAL SCHOOL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION — C$360 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.

Masonic Foundation of…United Way Maritimes/…The Community Foundat…River Philip Foundati…Halifax Youth Foundat…Mental Health Foundat…The Windsor FoundationJ and W Murphy Founda…Music Education Chari…The Christina and Hed…Aberdeen Health Found…The United Way of Pic…
Masonic Foundation of Nova ScotiaNS15.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · River Philip Foundation · Halifax Youth Foundation · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · The Windsor Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · Music Education Charity of Canada · The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundation · Aberdeen Health Foundation Society · The United Way of Pictou County

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 36 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 891529240:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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