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Pugwash, NS · Private foundation

The Seagull Foundation

THE SEAGULL FOUNDATION is committed to funding and supporting projects primarily focused on education and the environment.

C$20k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$849k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARYC$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$4,000
CHIGNECTO CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONC$1,000
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$77k · 4 repeat orgsC$15k to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

C$77k
C$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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

  • NC
    NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$49k · revenue +106%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$17k · revenue -72%
  • TC
    TATAMAGOUCHE CENTRE
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$6k · revenue -6%

Funded once

  • CP
    CANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR AIDS AND RELIEFgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$3k · revenue +95%
  • CF
    Community Foundation of Nova Scotiagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +267%
  • RC
    Rural Communities Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +127%

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
Nova Scotia Nature Trust

Programs designed to: (1) educate and encourage landowners to preserve land in Nova Scotia and to build awareness of land conservation and (2) provide permanent conservation and stewardship of ecologically significant natural landscape.

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2
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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3
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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4
The Canadian Council On Ecological Areas - Le Conseil Canadien Des Aires ÉCologiques

The canadian council on ecological areas (ccea) is a national leader in providing evidence-based guidance in the establishment and management of a comprehensive network of ecological areas to contribute to the conservation and restoration…

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5
Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists

Nature Nova Scotia (also known as the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) exists to aid in the communication and cooperation among naturalists natural history societies and other nature-focused groups in Nova Scotia. We profile and…

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada

A) Terrestrial Parks and Protected Areas Program - To establish new and expanded terrestrial protected areas while protecting nature in our existing parks; - To protect wilderness ecosystems across Canada; and - To educate Canadians about…

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10
Ecology Action Centre

The ecology action centre is a member based environmental charity located in nova scotia taking leadership on critical environmental issues in various areas such as climate change transporation marine etc.

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11
Canadian Wildlife Federation/FÉDÉRation Canadienne De La Faune

Cwf’s mission is to conserve and inspire the conservation of canada’s wildlife and habitat for the use and enjoyment of all through research direct programming education and advocacy. cwf is recognized for our leadership in bringing…

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12
Coast Conservation Endowment Fund Foundation

To fund conservation and resource management initiatives in the central and northern coastal regions of british columbia (including haida gwaii) managed by first nations who are qualified donees. to fund capacity projects which are…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society and the most unlike its peers is Farm Centre Association Inc.. 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$49,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY — C$16,500 over 7y, 21% of budgetTATAMAGOUCHE CENTRE — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN PHYSICIANS FOR AIDS AND RELIEF — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation of Nova Scotia — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRural Communities Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPRINCE EDWARD ISLAND FARM CENTRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCUMBERLAND TRAILS ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHIGNECTO CENTRAL REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND - CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCobequid Wildlife Rehab Centre — C$500 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

United Way Maritimes/…Community Foundations…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …Charitable Gift Funds…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS8.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · Community Foundations of Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · 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 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 2024-04-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under community resource.

Source object 886169994:2024-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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