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Dartmouth, NS · Private foundation

The Stevens Family Foundation

To raise money to provide funds to other regisered charities as per mandate.

C$132k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$32k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$100k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY NOVA SCOTIAC$25,000
RONALD MACDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ATLANTIC ASSOCIATIONC$25,000
VICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES NOVA SCOTIA BRANCHC$10,000
METRO FOOD BANK SOCIETY - NOVA SCOTIA (FEED NOVA SCOTIA)C$10,000
MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NSC$10,000
LANDMARK EAST FOUNDATIONC$10,000
BRIGADOON CHILDREN'S CAMP SOCIETYC$10,000
THE HALIFAX ARK OUTREACH ASSOCIATIONC$7,500
CATAPULT LEADERSHIP SOCIETYC$7,500
LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETYC$5,000
COBEQUID COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
GOFUNDME RYAN'S CROSS-CANADA RUNC$5,000
AVON RIVER DAY SOCIETYC$2,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$746k · 18 repeat orgsC$115k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
13

Total granted

C$746k
C$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$22k 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

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$125k · revenue +143%
  • MF
    METRO FOOD BANK SOCIETY - NOVA SCOTIA
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$120k · revenue +369%
  • HP
    HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE OF GREATER MONCTON (Hospice SENB)
    2× · 2019–2021 · C$50k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • BU
    Bayside United Baptist camp Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +49%
  • NH
    NEW HORIZONS BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -22%
  • BC
    BRIGADOON CHILDEREN'S CAMP SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k

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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Nova Scotia Health Authority (Nsha)

The nova scotia health authority delivers inpatient and outpatient health care services to nova scotians at various hosptals clinics and health centres throughout the province of nova scotia. services provided include acute care mental…

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2
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
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3
The Maritime Heart Center

The Maritime Heart Center is a non-profit organization that was incorporated in 1977 under the Nova Scotia Societies Act.Its mandate is to provide world class care to patients in the Maritimes with cardiovascular disease and to be an…

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4
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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5
Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Foundation

Fundraising activities for Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Centres, Marketing/Awareness Programs,

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6
Pac Autism Nova Scotia Society

Founded in 2002 autism nova scotia (ans) is a non-profit registered charity located in halifax nova scotia. ans was the original vision of joan and jack craig parents of an adult son with autism. today ans supports individuals with autism…

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7
Queen Elizabeth Ii Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.

The QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation continues to raise and grant funds primarily for the benefit of the QEII Health Sciences Centre (part of Nova Scotia Health Authority) to support patient care research and education. The…

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8
Sexual Health Nova Scotia Society

Provides sexual and reproductive health education promotion and awareness in nova scotia through our member centres throughout the province. this includes capacity building and professional development for communities and professionals who…

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9
Northern Health Authority

The role of the Authority is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the north region of British Columbia and those referred from outside the region. Northern Health Authority was created…

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10
Autism Society Nova Scotia

Family support groups, advocacy within Cape Breton and Nova Scotia and public awareness of Autism. Conduct annual Walk for Autism awareness and Summer youth programs and other social programming for children with autism.

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11
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes

United Way of Halifax Region invests in community development and initiatives to build our extraordinary community as a leader and facilitator. We create relationships establish networks build on individual strengths and work to ensure…

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12
Society for Equine-Assisted Services Nova Scotia

Provide therapeutic horse back riding programs to support the physical mental and emotional well-being of persons with diabilities

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia and the most unlike its peers is We Are Young Association. 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

32 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. 32 of the 35 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
23/32
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 budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$125,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMETRO FOOD BANK SOCIETY - NOVA SCOTIA — C$120,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Atlantic Association — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAcadia Divinity College — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE OF GREATER MONCTON (Hospice SENB) — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTHE HALIFAX ARK OUTREACH ASSOCIATION — C$47,500 over 8y, 8.4% of budgetCATAPULT LEADERSHP SOCIETY — C$42,500 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetBrigadoon Children's Camp Society — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLANDMARK EAST FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetSt Martha's Regional Hospital Foundation — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBayside United Baptist camp Association — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY — C$21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMental Health Foundation of NS — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWolfville L'arche Homefire Society — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCystic Fibrosis Canada — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE: Leave Out Violence Nova Scotia Society — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNEW HORIZONS BAPTIST CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetVICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES NOVA SCOTIA BRANCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNova Scotia Nature Trust — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEaster seals Nova Scotia — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSackville Rivers Association — C$7,500 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetCOBEQUID COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHealth Arts Society of Atlantic Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetFAMILY SOS ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetIWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParents & Children Together Association (P.A.C.T.) — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDASC - Dartmouth Adult Service Centre Association — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetreachAbility Association — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% 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/…J and W Murphy Founda…River Philip Foundati…The Community Foundat…The Windsor FoundationSisters of Charity Mo…Colin and Belle MacDo…United Way of Cape Br…Flemming Charitable F…BenefAction FoundationHalifax Youth Foundat…Mental Health Foundat…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS18.1× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · J and W Murphy Foundation · River Philip Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · The Windsor Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation · United Way of Cape Breton County · Flemming Charitable Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Halifax Youth Foundation · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia

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 35 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 821772811:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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