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Halifax, NS · Private foundation

Trust Under the Will of James Cosman

To provide financial assistance to the poor and needy in the province of nova scotia.

C$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$62k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$4,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARCHDIOSE OF HALIFAX-YARMOUTHC$10,000
THE HOME OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL (CHEBUCTO)C$9,000
VILLA ACADIENNEC$8,000
ST AMBROSE PARISHC$6,500
LE TRANSPORT DE CLARE SOCIETYC$6,000
BIRTHRIGHTC$5,000
H.O.P.E.C$4,500
L'ATELIER DE CLAREC$4,000
STELLA MARISC$3,500
PHOENIX HOUSE (YOUTH)C$3,500
LA MISON DES AMIS DU PLATEAU MONT ROYAL INCC$2,500
MARGUERITE CENTREC$2,500
MAISON JEROMEC$2,500
ALCARE PLACEC$2,500
BLESSED MOTHER TERESA CALCUTTA'S PARISH (DIVINE MERCY PARISHC$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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$480k · 23 repeat orgsC$0 to everyone else

23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
0

Total granted

C$480k
C$0

Still filing today

70%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • AO
    ARCHDIOSE OF HALIFAX-YARMOUTH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$80k · revenue +97% · 40% of their budget
  • TH
    THE HOME OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL (CHEBUCTO)
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$52k · revenue +86%
  • VA
    VILLA ACADIENNE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$48k · revenue +79%

Funded once

    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
    The Marguerite Centre Society of Nova Scotia

    The marguerite centre is a 11 bed long-term residential facility for women in recovery from addictions and abuse. the marguerite centre believes in the right for women to recover from their addictions in a safe residential setting where…

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    2
    Homes for Independent Living (Nova Scotia)

    To provide training for residents and life skills necessary to progress to independent living.

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    3
    Antigonish and Area Homemaker Service

    Provides in-home care for individuals indentified by the province of nova scotia department of health and wellness.

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    4
    Saint Vincent's Nursing Home

    Saint vincent's nursing home is private not-for-profit home for the residents founded by the roman catholic archdiocese of halifax. saint vincent's nursing home offers a wide variety of resident services which include: attending physician…

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    5
    Northwood Homecare Incorporated

    Homecare – the provision of home support and health care services to residents living within the nova scotia health authority. adult day – the provision of respite care to families within the halifax regional municipality who have members…

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    6
    Nova Hudson

    Home nursing services for the chronically ill adult day centre for the infirm

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    7
    Engage Nova Scotia Civic Engagement Society

    Nova scotia quality of life program

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    8
    Independent Living Nova Scotia Association

    transitional and pre-employment programming support services for self managed care shared services programming/housing food insecurity programming peer support events self advocacy support

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    9
    L'arche Halifax

    Housing and support for individuals with intellectual disabilities

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    10
    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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    11
    Community Living Alternative Society

    Community living alternatives society (clas) provides quality community lviing opportunities for individuals with intellectual disabilities within the kings county area of nova scotia. clas provides this by operating group homes small…

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    12
    Community Living & Respite Northumberland

    Community day supports for individuals with developmental disabilities employment services for people with a barrier to employment. community housing placements for individuals with developmental disabilities access to case management and…

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    For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inclusion Clare Organization and the most unlike its peers is Les Dames Patronesses De La Colonie De La Jeunesse Acadienne. 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

    18 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. 18 of the 23 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.

    3
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    7
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    16/18
    Grantees still filing
    12/18
    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 budgetARCHDIOSE OF HALIFAX-YARMOUTH — C$79,500 over 8y, 40% of budgetTHE HOME OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL (CHEBUCTO) — C$51,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetVILLA ACADIENNE — C$48,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLE TRANSPORT DE CLARE SOCIETY — C$41,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT — C$32,500 over 8y, 39% of budgetST AMBROSE PARISH — C$31,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetL'ATELIER DE CLARE — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetPHONEIX HOUSE (YOUTH) — C$22,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetH.O.P.E. — C$19,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCOLONIE DE LA JEUNESSE ACADIENNE — C$19,000 over 6y, 35% of budgetMARGUERITE CENTRE — C$17,500 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetALCARE PLACE — C$10,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE METRO NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWALTER CALLOW FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALLOW WHEELCHAIR BUSSES — C$7,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetST FRANCIS AND ST CLAIR PARISH — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST ANDREW'S PARISH — C$5,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLA MISON DES AMIS DU PLATEAU MONT ROYAL INC — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.5% 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.

    • Who funds ARCHDIOSE OF HALIFAX-YARMOUTH ↗
    • Who funds THE HOME OF THE GUARDIAN ANGEL (CHEBUCTO) ↗
    • Who funds VILLA ACADIENNE ↗
    • Who funds LE TRANSPORT DE CLARE SOCIETY ↗
    • Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ↗
    • Who funds ST AMBROSE PARISH ↗
    • Who funds L'ATELIER DE CLARE ↗
    • Who funds PHONEIX HOUSE (YOUTH) ↗
    • Who funds H.O.P.E. ↗
    • Who funds COLONIE DE LA JEUNESSE ACADIENNE ↗
    • Who funds MARGUERITE CENTRE ↗
    • Who funds ALCARE PLACE ↗
    • Who funds THE METRO NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION ↗
    • Who funds WALTER CALLOW FOUNDATION ↗
    • Who funds CALLOW WHEELCHAIR BUSSES ↗
    • Who funds ST FRANCIS AND ST CLAIR PARISH ↗
    • Who funds ST ANDREW'S PARISH ↗
    • Who funds LA MISON DES AMIS DU PLATEAU MONT ROYAL INC ↗

    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 Roman Catholic Ep…The Community Foundat…Sisters of Charity Mo…United Way East Ontar…Strategic Charitable …Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…My Tribute Gift Found…Canadian Online Givin…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
    United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS12.3× affinity10 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 Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Halifax · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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 23 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 119272250:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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