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Dartmouth, NS · Public foundation

The Rotary Club of Dartmouth Charitable Foundation

We support local registered charities.

C$21k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$33
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HALIFAXC$6,000
FEDELIS HOUSE SOCIETYC$5,000
THE DARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CANADA-AFRICA COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCEC$4,000
THE FREEDOM FOUNDATIONC$750
THE BACK TO THE SEA SOCIETYC$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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$55k · 5 repeat orgsC$20k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

C$55k
C$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+12%

Still filing today

80%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • TD
    THE DARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$15k · revenue +26%
  • FO
    FREEDOMFOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA
    4× · 2018–2024 · C$4k · revenue +18%
  • TB
    THE BACK TO THE SEA SOCIETY
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$1k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • SB
    SHELTER BOX CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue -1%
  • RF
    ROTARY FOUNDATION CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$2k
  • CA
    CANADA AFRICA COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · C$2k · revenue -17%

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.

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The Rotary Club of Dartmouth Charitable Foundation

We support local registered charities.

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2
Volunteers for Humanity

Promote health by providing affected populations with health care services or products that prevent and manage serious threats to health and survival. Relieving poverty in developing nations by providing basic necessities of life including…

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3
Norfolk General Hospital Foundation

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…

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4
Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society

This is Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society's (VAMMR) first year of operations as a registered charity and is a global leader in marine mammal rescue research and rehabilitation. VAMMR responds to over 300 marine mammal…

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5
Humanitarian Coalition /

The Humanitarian Coalition contributes towards alleviating acute human suffering among survivors of humanitarian disasters. As a joint Canadian approach to humanitarian response the Humanitarian Coalition is a 'one-stop-shop' for all…

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6
Bluewater Health Foundation

Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs…

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7
Victoria Hospitals Foundation

The victoria hospitals foundation raises funds for priority medical equipment special projects research education and other island health priority needs primarily at royal jubilee hospital victoria general hospital and gorge road hospital.…

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8
North Shore Health Research Foundation

The charity funded various health care research projects.

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9
Halifax Transition House Association

The charity provided temporary emergency shelter for more than 250 women and families leaving situations of intimate partner violence (IPV) at the Bryony House Shelter. Programs offered at the shelter consisted of one-on-one supportive…

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10
Ronald Mcdonald House Maritimes Association

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…

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11
Canadian Surgical Eye Expeditions

Restore sight to people in developing countries

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12
Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes

Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes operates on a donor-advised fund that makes gifts to qualified donees. In any one year, BC Children's Hospital Foundation is the recipient of at least 50% of Sunshine Fund for Kids and Causes gifts to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Partners International of Canada / Partenaires canadiens pour la santé internationale and the most unlike its peers is Dartmouth General Hospital Charitable 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

12 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. 12 of the 17 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$28,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEDELIS HOUSE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetFREEDOMFOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$4,100 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSHELTER BOX CANADA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADA AFRICA COMMUNITY HEALTH ALLIANCE — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INTERNATIONAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BACK TO THE SEA SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHEALTH PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL-CANADA — C$625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO TIME FOR THAT — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF NORTH SYDNEY — C$500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY-MARITIME DIVISION — 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.

River Philip Foundati…United Way Maritimes/…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
River Philip FoundationNS7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: River Philip Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.

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 17 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 2024-06-30, 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 839296712:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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