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Halifax, NS · Private foundation

The Wadih M. Fares Family Foundation

Donations to charitable organizations

C$153k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$33k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
QEII FOUNDATIONC$100,000
ELILIEPSY ASSOCIATION OF THE MARITIMESC$10,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS HALIFAXC$10,000
PARKER STREET FOOD & FURNITUREC$5,000
HELP 2 OVERCOME SOCIETY - H2OC$5,000
MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIAC$5,000
SHELTER MOVERS NSC$5,000
FAMILY SOS ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATIONC$5,000
IWK HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION - ORCHID GALAC$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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$547k · 19 repeat orgsC$155k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
30

Total granted

C$547k
C$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+17%

Still filing today

95%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • QF
    QEII FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$300k · revenue +11%
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS HALIFAX
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$63k · revenue +26%
  • TE
    THE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$63k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Nova Scotia
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue -42%
  • HP
    Halifax Public Libraries
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +17%
  • TE
    THE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA
    one grant, 2022 · C$14k

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 Health Research Foundation
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2
The Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation

The Foundation raises funds to meet the capital (equipment and infrastructure) research educational and programming needs of the Janeway Children's Hospital in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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3
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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4
Northern Cancer Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to raise funds which are then disbursed to health sciences north (hsn) and health sciences north research institute (hsnri). amounts received from the foundation are used to fund capital research equipment…

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5
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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6
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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7
Neo Kids Foundation

The purpose of the foundaiton is to raise funds which are then disbursed to health sciences north. amounts received from the foundation are used to fund capital research equipment and other related expenditures incurred by health sciences…

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8
Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Foundation

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

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9
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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10
Nova Scotia Community College Foundation

NSCC Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the NSCC supporting the College's vision and mission to transform Nova Scotia one learner at a time build Nova Scotia's economy and quality of life through education and innovation and promise to…

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11
North Shore Health Research Foundation

The charity funded various health care research projects.

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12
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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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 Saint Antonios Antiochian Christian Orthodox Church. 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

46 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. 46 of the 51 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
33/46
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 budgetQEII FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS HALIFAX — C$63,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$62,500 over 6y, 15% of budgetJunior Achievement of Nova Scotia — C$50,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetHalifax Public Libraries — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMetro Food Bank Society — C$10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBrigadoon Children's Camp Society — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEPARCHY OF ST.MARON — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFAMILY SOS — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS NOVA SCOTIA — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIWK HEALTH CENTRE — C$9,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHELP 2 OVERCOME SOCIETY - H2O — C$5,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetPARKER STREET FOOD & FURNITURE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEaster Seals Nova Scotia — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWLCU-BC COUNCIL- WORLD LEBANESE CULTURAL UNION - BC COUNCIL — C$5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE CHALMERS FOUNDATION INC — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX YOUTH PROGRAMS — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDARTMOUTH GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Nova Scotia — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Progress Charitable Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF HALIFAX REGION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMI'KMAW NATIE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADSUM ASSOCIATION FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSISTERHOOD OF DIMAN FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHOPE BLOOMS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALIFAX PROGRESS CLUB — C$1,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetON THE FRONT LINE BREAST CANCER — C$1,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetHOSPICE SOCIETY OF GREATER HALIFAX — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR LADY OF LEBANON PARISH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANTONIOS CHURCH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJAYS CARE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMICI CAMPING CHARITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDalhousie University — C$450 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.

United Way Maritimes/…The Community Foundat…River Philip Foundati…J and W Murphy Founda…The Windsor FoundationSisters of Charity Mo…Black Family Foundati…Halifax Youth Foundat…The Medavie Foundatio…Saint Mary's Universi…Doane Grant Thornton …Colin and Belle MacDo…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS21.7× affinity25 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 · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · River Philip Foundation · J and W Murphy Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · Black Family Foundation · Halifax Youth Foundation · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · Saint Mary's University · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable 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 51 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 852289107:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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