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Halifax, NS · Charitable organization

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.

C$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
497
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$138k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 497 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k422 grants · C$415k
  • C$10k–50k65 grants · C$1.5M
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$771k
C$440
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way HalifaxC$137,907
The John Howard Society of Nova ScotiaC$127,355
St Nicholas Anglican ChurchC$80,000
Knox United Church of CanadaC$71,052
Saint Thomas Baptist ChurchC$66,250
Shelburne County Youth Health and Support AssociationC$66,000
Souls Harbour Rescue MissionC$62,290
North End Parent Resource CentreC$60,000
Black Opportunity FundC$50,000
St. Luke's United ChurchC$50,000
Emmanuel Baptist ChurchC$34,850
St. Leonard's Society of Nova ScotiaC$34,700
Shelburne Loyalist Food BankC$34,100
Feed Nova ScotiaC$33,772
Mi'kmaw Native Friendship SocietyC$33,159
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 61% of grant dollars (C$12M). The 39% that went abroad (C$7.5M) is mapped below.

Which regions your grants reach

Nova Scotia
C$4.9M
Ontario
C$150k
Quebec
C$18k
New Brunswick
C$18k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$17k
British Columbia
C$9k
Alberta
C$5k
Manitoba
C$3k
Prince Edward Island
C$2k
Nunavut
C$478
Saskatchewan
C$331

Beyond home — 39% of all-years giving (C$7.5M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12M · 622 repeat orgsC$6.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

622 repeat relationships — 355 still active in FY2024, 267 since wound down; 134 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

622
1000

Total granted

C$12M
C$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+21%

Still filing today

90%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$839k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • UW
    United Way of Halifax Region
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue ×31
  • TJ
    The John Howard Society of Nova Scotia
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$287k · revenue +492%
  • AA
    Adsum Association for Women & Children
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$285k · revenue +458%

Funded once

  • VO
    Various Organizations
    one grant, 2018 · C$2.3M
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · C$320k
  • IH
    IWK Health Centre & Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · C$319k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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 Research Foundation
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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
North Shore Health Research Foundation

The charity funded various health care research projects.

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7
Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Foundation

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

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8
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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9
Halifax Youth Foundation

Providing funding to agencies carrying out programs for the benefit of children and youth in nova scotia that are consistent with the objects of the foundation.

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10
Science Atlantic

Coordinate conferences for post-secondary students to present research - coordinate lecture tours of scientists in atlantic canada - present award for outstanding science communication and research to students - facilitate meetings of…

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11
Canadian Mental Health Association Niagara Branch

Programs and services for the psychiatric community and their families. promotion of mental health public education on mental illness. client advocacy one-to-one support safe bed provision crisis intervention information and referral…

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12
Nova Scotia League for Equal Opportunities

Provincial access awareness disability student scholarships provincial disability partnership poverty reduction strategy women with disabilities disability information sharing sessions public and member disability education disability…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alzheimer Society of New Brunswick Inc. / Societe Alzheimer De Nouveau Brunswick Inc. and the most unlike its peers is New Waterford Pastoral Charge. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

1052 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. 1052 of the 1,756 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.

22
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
289
Early backer (in before they grew)
1006/1052
Grantees still filing
660/1052
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUnited Way of Halifax Region — C$1,257,223 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetHealthPartners — C$314,449 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe John Howard Society of Nova Scotia — C$287,373 over 4y, 9.0% of budgetAdsum Association for Women & Children — C$285,343 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetEast Preston Day Care Center — C$274,796 over 4y, 12% of budgetBoys and Girls Club-Greater Halifax — C$257,208 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetChebucto Connections — C$246,378 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetYWCA Halifax — C$237,655 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetThe Club — C$198,256 over 4y, 37% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association-Halifax/Dartmouth Branch — C$189,258 over 4y, 31% of budgetStepping Stone — C$175,682 over 4y, 40% of budgetAlice Housing — C$173,043 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetThe Public Good Society of Dartmouth — C$171,362 over 4y, 44% of budgetVeith House — C$169,907 over 4y, 14% of budgetElizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia — C$163,911 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetThe North Grove — C$161,732 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetSociety of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Nova Scotians — C$152,906 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetFeed Nova Scotia — C$141,754 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUnited Way Cape Breton — C$140,768 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetMetro Non-Profit Housing Association — C$139,770 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBryony House — C$139,330 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetFamily Services of Support (SOS) — C$130,864 over 5y, 15% of budgetBayers-Westwood Family Resource Centre — C$128,314 over 4y, 14% of budgetSouls Harbour Rescue Mission — C$126,990 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHalifax Refugee Clinic — C$126,591 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetShelter Nova Scotia — C$126,039 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFairview United Family Resource Centre — C$126,000 over 2y, 46% of budgetFreedom Foundation of N.S. — C$116,359 over 4y, 11% of budgetIWK Health Centre Charitable Foundation — C$116,219 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Youth Project — C$110,343 over 4y, 16% of budgetSPCA - Nova Scotia — C$108,727 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSpencer House Seniors' Centre — C$106,201 over 4y, 15% of budgetMi'kmaw Native Friendship Society — C$99,233 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Salvation Army Halifax West Community Church — C$98,261 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetMusquodoboit Valley Family Resource Centre — C$96,975 over 3y, 14% of budgetLove Nova Scotia — C$93,860 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetParker Street Food & Furniture Bank — C$86,360 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetOld School Community Gathering Place — C$86,103 over 3y, 20% of budgetSt Nicholas Anglican Church — C$80,000 over 1y, 77% of budgetLOVE — C$76,857 over 1y, 39% of budgetKnox United Church of Canada — C$73,727 over 4y, 11% of budgetSaint Thomas Baptist Church — C$66,710 over 2y, 20% of budgetShelburne County Youth Health and Support Association — C$66,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetImmigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia — C$65,386 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Marguerite Centre — C$61,972 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetSt.Paul's Family Resources Institute — C$61,387 over 3y, 37% of budgetThe YMCA of Greater Halifax/Dartmouth — C$60,219 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNorth End Parent Resource Centre — C$60,000 over 1y, 12% 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 United Way of Halifax Region ↗
  • Who funds HealthPartners ↗
  • Who funds The John Howard Society of Nova Scotia ↗
  • Who funds Adsum Association for Women & Children ↗
  • Who funds East Preston Day Care Center ↗
  • Who funds Boys and Girls Club-Greater Halifax ↗
  • Who funds Chebucto Connections ↗
  • Who funds YWCA Halifax ↗
  • Who funds The Club ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Mental Health Association-Halifax/Dartmouth Branch ↗
  • Who funds Stepping Stone ↗
  • Who funds Alice Housing ↗
  • Who funds The Public Good Society of Dartmouth ↗
  • Who funds Veith House ↗
  • Who funds Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia ↗
  • Who funds The North Grove ↗
  • Who funds Society of Deaf and Hard of Hearing Nova Scotians ↗
  • Who funds Feed Nova Scotia ↗
  • Who funds United Way Cape Breton ↗
  • Who funds Metro Non-Profit Housing Association ↗
  • Who funds Bryony House ↗
  • Who funds Family Services of Support (SOS) ↗
  • Who funds Bayers-Westwood Family Resource Centre ↗
  • Who funds Souls Harbour Rescue Mission ↗
  • Who funds Halifax Refugee Clinic ↗
  • Who funds Shelter Nova Scotia ↗
  • Who funds Fairview United Family Resource Centre ↗
  • Who funds Freedom Foundation of N.S. ↗
  • Who funds IWK Health Centre Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Youth Project ↗
  • Who funds SPCA - Nova Scotia ↗

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 Community Foundat…J and W Murphy Founda…Mental Health Foundat…Halifax Youth Foundat…Halifax Association f…Masonic Foundation of…United Way of Colches…United Way of Cape Br…The Windsor FoundationFlemming Charitable F…River Philip Foundati…Black Family Foundati…
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia SocietyNS38.1× affinity167 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · J and W Murphy Foundation · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · Halifax Youth Foundation · Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · United Way of Colchester County · United Way of Cape Breton County · The Windsor Foundation · Flemming Charitable Foundation · River Philip Foundation · Black Family 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 1756 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under foundations.

Source object 119278232:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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