Dartmouth, NS · Private foundation
The Robert Steele Foundation
Support of the arts by way of donating to the dalhousie musical arts and the support of the education of entrepreneurship and innovation with a donation to saint mary's university for entrepreneurship awards mtei scholarships and a professorship in entrepreneurship and other charitable initiatives.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$40k
- C$50k–250k3 grants · C$150k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$2.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY | C$2,500,000 |
| HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH SHORE | C$50,000 |
| UNISON BENEVOLENT FUND | C$50,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | C$50,000 |
| YMCA OF HALIFAX | C$30,000 |
| THE NOVA SCOTIA HIGHLAND VILLAGE SOCIETY | 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 -7% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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, 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 UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · C$5.3M · revenue +25%
- SMSAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY - SCHOOL OF BUSINESS3× · 2021–2023 · C$860k
- UBUNISON BENEVOLENT FUND5× · 2020–2024 · C$250k · revenue -7%
Funded once
- MHMASSEY HALLone grant, 2021 · C$100k · revenue -31%
- DGDARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · C$60k · revenue +28%
- CPCHESTER PLAYHOUSEone grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue -19%
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.
Dalhousie medical research foundation provides funding for research in the faculties of medicine health and dentistry at dalhousie university in the form of studentships graduate studentships fellowships chairs and other salary support the…
Norfolk General Hospital Foundation is a public foundation which receives and maintains funds to use and apply from time to time on all or part of the capital or income therefrom the benefit of Norfolk General Hospital's medical…
Funding of hospital equipment and support health oriented groups
Funding the purchase of hospital equipment.
Improving health care and the quality of life in the community by growing and maintaining donor support for the northumberland hills hospital
Donates funds to halton healthcare services corporation to benefit the georgetown hospital site
The hants community hospital foundation carries on activies to raise funds to assist hants community hospital with capital purchases to provide the means to support community health care for the community of west hants.the foundation…
Donating to local hospital
The Foundation continues to support the charitable activities of the Corporation of Massey Hall and Roy Thomson Hall.
The mandate of mackenzie health foundation ('the foundation') is to conduct fundraising activities on behalf of mackenzie health (the 'hospital') to secure the resources necessary to realize its vision of creating a world-class health…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dartmouth General Hospital Charitable Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Unison Benevolent Fund. 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. 8 of the 11 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 DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNISON BENEVOLENT FUND ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION OF THE SOUTH SHORE ↗
- Who funds MASSEY HALL ↗
- Who funds DARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHESTER PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE NOVA SCOTIA HIGHLAND VILLAGE SOCIETY ↗
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: Canada Gives · J and W Murphy Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.