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Lunenburg, NS · Private foundation

The Rosewater Charitable Foundation

Contributions to registered canadian charities only as directed by the purposes of the trust.

C$55k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$30k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$25k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE FOR WILDLIFEC$25,000
NATURE NOVA SCOTIAC$7,000
L.A.M.P. ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVALC$5,000
ECOJUSTICEC$5,000
LUNENBURG ACADEMY FOUNDATIONC$5,000
HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION S. SHOREC$5,000
BLUENOSE ACADEMY SS REG CTR FOR EDUCATIONC$2,500
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$112k · 5 repeat orgsC$53k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

C$112k
C$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+233%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$38k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • NS
    NOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$65k · revenue +81%
  • E
    ECOJUSTICE
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$15k · revenue -3%
  • NN
    NATURE NOVA SCOTIA
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$12k · revenue -52%

Funded once

  • MI
    MAHONE ISLANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$8k
  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +10%
  • MI
    MAHONE ISLANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +233%

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
Island Nature Trust

land acquisition through donation and purchase application of protection to those lands stewardship and management to retain ecological integrity protection and monitoring of species-at-risk nature education and engagement programs…

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2
Bluenose Coastal Action Foundation

Coastal Action established in December 1993 is a charitable organization that addresses environmental concerns throughout the South Shore region of Nova Scotia and beyond. Our goal is to promote the restoration enhancement and conservation…

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3
Nature Conservancy of Canada (Pei) Inc.

The nature conservancy of canada (pei) inc. is a non-profit conservation organization that takes a businesslike approach to protecting prince edward island's natural heritage. ncc (pei) inc. is distinguished by its direct and singular…

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4
Oceans North Conservation Society

Oceans north conservation society’s mandate is to promote the conservation of canada’s northern oceans and the resulting well-being of people and communities who rely upon its natural wealth

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5
Northumberland Land Trust

Maintaining and managing fourteen nature reserves Monitoring endangered & other species on reserves Assessing whether to acquire new properties Communicating with members & donors

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6
Nova Scotia Salmon Association

Representing the interests of over 25 river associations and their members and the regional council of the atlantic salmon federation. watershed stewardship and innovative aquatic habitat restoration. protecting the fish their native…

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7
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…

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8
New Brunswick Federation of Naturalists Inc. - Federation Des Naturalistes Du Nouveau-Brunswick Inc.

Species at Risk Conservation Nature Education Program Biodiversity Stewardship Publications Climate Change Adapatation Fetival of Nature NatureKids NB Important Bird Areas Healthy Coasts NB

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9
Bowen Island Conservancy

Public education - management of nature reserves - marine atlas content - acquistion and development of conservation areas

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10
The Halifax Field Naturalists

Production of newsletters; public presentations and field trips to raise awareness of the natural history of nova scotia conservation issues and the protection of endangered species and spaces.

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11
Bras D'or Preservation Nature Trust

Continuing transfer of conservation easements to nova scotia trust

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12
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nova Scotia Nature Trust and the most unlike its peers is Lunenburg Academy 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

11 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. 11 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
4/11
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 budgetNOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST — C$65,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE FOR WILDLIFE — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetECOJUSTICE — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATURE NOVA SCOTIA — C$12,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HEALTH SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetL.A.M.P. ROSSINI OPERA FESTIVAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLUNENBURG ACADEMY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAHONE ISLANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetBLUENOSE ACADEMY SS REG CTR FOR EDUCATION — C$2,500 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 Marguerite Hubbar…The Community Foundat…United Way Maritimes/…J and W Murphy Founda…BenefAction FoundationNature Canada / Canad…Strategic Charitable …Canada GivesAqueduct FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…My Tribute Gift Found…
The Marguerite Hubbard Charitable FoundationNS12.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Marguerite Hubbard Charitable Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · J and W Murphy Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Canada Gives · Aqueduct Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation

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 12 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 2024-03-31, 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 769781469:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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