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Amherst, NS · Private foundation

The W. B. Wells Heritage Foundation

Wb wells heritage foundation provides donations to various cemetery funds for the maintenance and improvement of cemeteries donates to the cumberland county museum and maintains owned cemeteries.

C$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k16 grants · C$58k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
C$3,720
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PALMERSTON CEMETERY CORPORATIONC$15,000
LOWER RIVER HEBERT CEMETERY COMPANY OF LOWER RIVER HEC$6,670
ANGEVINE CEMETERY SOCIETYC$6,419
FRASERVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONC$5,203
PORT GREVILLE UNITED BAPTIST CHURCHC$4,536
PARISH OF CHRIST CHURCH CEMETERYC$4,434
TRINITY- ST.STEPHEN'S UNITED CHURCHC$4,099
ALL SAINTS PARISHC$3,795
PARISH OF NORTHUMBERLANDC$3,720
MILLVALE UNITED BAPTIST CEMETERYC$3,680
MACNAB HILL CEMETERY SOCIETYC$2,990
RODNEY COMMUNITY SOCIETYC$2,978
TRUEMANVILLE CEMETRY SOCIETYC$2,500
PARISH OF PARRSBORO SHORE IN THE COUNTY OF CUMBERLANDC$2,254
BAXTER CEMETERY 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$220k · 21 repeat orgsC$93k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
18

Total granted

C$220k
C$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
-6%

Still filing today

90%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$33k 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

  • SC
    ST. CORNELIUS CEMETERY ( ALL SAINTS)
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$20k · revenue ×21
  • CC
    CHRIST CHURCH CEMTERY
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$18k · revenue +83%
  • BE
    BAXTER ELEMENTARY SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$18k · revenue +50% · 100% of their budget

Funded once

  • AC
    AMHERST CEMETERY
    one grant, 2020 · C$8k · revenue -17%
  • MP
    MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY COMPANY
    one grant, 2023 · C$6k · revenue -94% · 49% of their budget
  • CM
    Cumberland Museum Societygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$6k · revenue +119%

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
Rockley Cemetery Company

Cemetery maintenance and upkeep

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2
Waugh Cemetery Society

Mowing grass and maintenance of the cemetery

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3
Kennetcook Cemetery Society

Maintenance of the kennetcook cemetery

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4
The Sherwood Cemetery Company

Maintenance of cemetery

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5
Polly Cemetery Company

Maintenance of historical cemetery

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6
The Hillside Cemetery Company

Ongoing maintenance of hillside cemetery

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7
The Captain Poulson Cemetery Company

Maintaining cemetery

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8
Wainwright Cemetery Association

Maintenance of cemetery grounds

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9
The Riverport Cemetery Company Association

Maintainence of cemetry

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10
The Lorneville Cemetery Company

Mowing & maintenance

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11
Knowlton Cemetery Company

Cemetery maintenance & burials

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12
Windham Cemetery Company

Maintaining the windham cemetery

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The River Philip Cemetery Society and the most unlike its peers is Oxford Pioneer Heritage Club. 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

38 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. 38 of the 43 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/38
Grantees still filing
21/38
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$10kC$100kC$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPARRISH OF PARRSBORO SHORE & COUNTY OF CUMBERLAND — C$21,217 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetST. CORNELIUS CEMETERY ( ALL SAINTS) — C$19,640 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetCHRIST CHURCH CEMTERY — C$18,100 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetBAXTER ELEMENTARY SOCIETY — C$18,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetFRASERVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION — C$17,936 over 6y, 94% of budgetPALMERSTON CEMETERY CORPORATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 84% of budgetMILLVALE UNITED BAPTIST CEMETERY — C$14,890 over 4y, 14% of budgetPARISH OF ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$10,757 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetMCNABB HILL CEMETERY — C$10,240 over 3y, 49% of budgetOLD ST. GEORGEÈS CEMETERY — C$9,780 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetWarren Baptist Church — C$8,651 over 4y, 40% of budgetAMHERST CEMETERY — C$7,774 over 1y, 11% of budgetFENWICK UNITED CHURCH CEMETERY — C$7,233 over 2y, 66% of budgetLOWER RIVER HEBERT CEMETERY COMPANY OF LOWER RIVER HE — C$6,670 over 1y, 78% of budgetSt. Matthews — C$6,612 over 3y, 12% of budgetANGEVINE CEMETERY SOCIETY — C$6,419 over 1y, 88% of budgetTRINITY- ST.STEPHEN'S UNITED CHURCH — C$6,031 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRODNEY COMMUNITY SOCIETY — C$5,958 over 3y, 39% of budgetTRUEMANVILLE CEMETERY SOCIETY — C$5,956 over 2y, 39% of budgetMOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY COMPANY — C$5,762 over 1y, 49% of budgetCumberland Museum Society — C$5,750 over 1y, 10% of budgetMalagash U.C. Cemetery — C$5,577 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTIDNISH RIVERSIDE CEMETERY — C$4,900 over 3y, 21% of budgetOXFORD PIONEER HERITAGE CLUB — C$4,600 over 1y, 32% of budgetPORT GREVILLE UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH — C$4,536 over 1y, 15% of budgetRIVERSIDE CEMETERY — C$3,933 over 1y, 18% of budgetShinimicas Cemetery society — C$3,542 over 2y, 22% of budgetROBERTSON CEMETERY COMPANY — C$3,306 over 2y, 78% of budgetOXFORD PINE GROVE CEMETERY — C$2,890 over 2y, 10% of budgetRIVER PHILIP UNITED CEMETERY SOCIETY — C$2,863 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNappan United Church — C$1,995 over 1y, 11% of budgetWallace Area Cemetery — C$825 over 1y, 48% of budgetPioneer Cemetery — C$443 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCUMBERLAND HOSPICE — C$200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTRAY CLUB OF AMHERST — C$200 over 1y, 0.2% 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 Dr. & Mrs. H. E. …United Way East Ontar…Canadahelps CanadonCHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
The Dr. & Mrs. H. E. Christie Community FoundationNS12.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Dr. & Mrs. H. E. Christie Community Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Canadahelps Canadon · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 43 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 119262186:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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