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Sydney, NS · Public foundation

United Way of Cape Breton County

This past year the united way of cape breton has supported various agencies in cape breton operating a number of programs for cape breton island residents as well as supporting a number of other charitable organizations through designated donations.

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
85
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$48k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k46 grants · C$53k
  • C$10k–50k39 grants · C$964k
C$4,423
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMCA OF CAPE BRETONC$48,225
EPICC$45,325
CENTRE FOR CRAFT AND DESIGNC$43,221
ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CAPE BRETONC$39,546
NEW DAWN ENTERPRISES (COMMUNITY CARES)C$38,480
ALLY CENTRE OF CAPE BRETONC$32,121
NEW DAWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT EDUCATION FOUNDATIONC$30,000
BAY ST LAWRENCE COMMUNITY CENTREC$30,000
GLACE BAY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$30,000
ALLY CENTRE OF CAPE BRETONC$30,000
LE CLUB KINSEM DE CHETICAMPC$30,000
SALVATION AMRY GLACE BAYC$30,000
NORTH SYDNEY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$30,000
YMCA OF CAPE BRETONC$30,000
NEW DAWN ENTERPRISES (MEALS ON WHEELS)C$30,000
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.7M · 136 repeat orgsC$486k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

136 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 85 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

136
76

Total granted

C$2.7M
C$194k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+19%

Still filing today

88%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$292k 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

  • ND
    New Dawn Community Development Educational Foundation Inc.
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$316k · revenue +0% · 29% of their budget
  • YO
    YMCA OF CAPE BRETON
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$230k · revenue +94%
  • EF
    ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CAPE BRETON
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$230k · revenue +259%

Funded once

  • ND
    New Dawn Meals on Wheels
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$36k · revenue +15%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES OF EASTERN NOVA SCOTIA
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k
  • TO
    Town Of Port Hawkesbury
    one grant, 2022 · C$21k

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 Research Foundation
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2
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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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
Aberdeen Health Foundation Society

The aberdeen health foundation society's objective is to provide programs that will support the delivery of health care within pictou county nova scotia.

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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
Nova Scotia Hearing and Speech Foundation

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

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9
Nova Scotia Nature Trust

Programs designed to: (1) educate and encourage landowners to preserve land in Nova Scotia and to build awareness of land conservation and (2) provide permanent conservation and stewardship of ecologically significant natural landscape.

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10
The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society

The community foundation of nova scotia is a public foundation created by and for the people of nova scotia. we work with private donors communities and charitable organizations to stimulate charitable giving establish permanent endowment…

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11
Cobequid Community Health Centre Foundation

The Cobequid Foundation raises much needed funds and grants these funds to the Nova Scotia Health Authority - Central Zone for the purpose of supporting the capital equipment needs of the Cobequid Community Health Centre. This fundraising…

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12
North Shore Health Research Foundation

The charity funded various health care research projects.

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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

189 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. 189 of the 231 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
71
Early backer (in before they grew)
173/189
Grantees still filing
131/189
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNew Dawn Community Development Educational Foundation Inc. — C$316,106 over 6y, 29% of budgetYMCA OF CAPE BRETON — C$230,135 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CAPE BRETON — C$229,931 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetEPIC — C$229,266 over 7y, 19% of budgetWPYC (FOOD SERVICE) — C$216,514 over 7y, 11% of budgetUndercurrent Youth Centre — C$164,324 over 8y, 72% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING (HOMELESS SHELTER0 — C$101,258 over 5y, 54% of budgetADULT LEARNING (WORKFORCE READINESS) — C$85,822 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetSALVATION AMRY GLACE BAY — C$76,514 over 6y, 40% of budgetFamily Services of Eastern NS — C$75,603 over 8y, 67% of budgetALLY CENTRE OF CAPE BRETON — C$62,206 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetSt. Peters Parish - Tracadie — C$49,902 over 8y, 17% of budgetBAY ST LAWRENCE COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$45,513 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL YOUTH PROJECT SOCIETY (SUPPORT FOR LGBT — C$44,492 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCENTRE FOR CRAFT AND DESIGN — C$43,221 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES — C$40,444 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBEREAVED FAMILIES OF C.B. (ADOLESCENT GRIEF APP) — C$37,210 over 8y, 18% of budgetGLACE BAY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$36,431 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetGLACE BAY CITIZENS SERVICE LEAGUE — C$36,199 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetNew Dawn Meals on Wheels — C$35,572 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCape Breton Community Housing Association — C$31,037 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTH SYDNEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$30,882 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES - INNER CITY CHURCHES SOCIETY — C$27,946 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetCape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation — C$27,350 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY — C$26,123 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetST. ANNE COMMUNITY AND NURSING CARE CENTRE — C$23,944 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSociety of Deaf & Hard of Hearing — C$23,811 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetSt. Martha's Regional Hospital Foundation — C$23,586 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetVON NS — C$23,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$20,564 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHealth Partners — C$19,340 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRegional Occupational Centre Society — C$19,035 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPORT HASTINGS VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — C$18,444 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetFamily Services of Eastern Nova Scotia — C$18,159 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLOVE NS — C$16,250 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetJUDIQUE VOL FIRE DEPT: — C$15,347 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetRichmond Literacy Network Society — C$14,080 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetMultiple Schlerosis Soc of NS — C$14,079 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHospice/Palliative Care Society of CB — C$13,895 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetBrilliant Labs Inc — C$13,499 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE — C$12,003 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMEMBERTOU C & H FOUNDATION (SHARING & LEARNING MI'KMQ CHANTS — C$11,828 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetLEESIDE SOCIETY: 2018 DONOR CHOICE — C$11,146 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetLAKE AINSLIE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$10,482 over 1y, 25% of budgetPORT HASTINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$10,365 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF NS — C$10,187 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$9,618 over 7y, 13% of budgetCDN CANCER SOCIETY (NS DIVISION) — C$9,463 over 7y, 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.

  • Who funds New Dawn Community Development Educational Foundation Inc. ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF CAPE BRETON ↗
  • Who funds ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CAPE BRETON ↗
  • Who funds EPIC ↗
  • Who funds WPYC (FOOD SERVICE) ↗
  • Who funds Undercurrent Youth Centre ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HOUSING (HOMELESS SHELTER0 ↗
  • Who funds ADULT LEARNING (WORKFORCE READINESS) ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION AMRY GLACE BAY ↗
  • Who funds Family Services of Eastern NS ↗
  • Who funds ALLY CENTRE OF CAPE BRETON ↗
  • Who funds St. Peters Parish - Tracadie ↗
  • Who funds BAY ST LAWRENCE COMMUNITY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL YOUTH PROJECT SOCIETY (SUPPORT FOR LGBT ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR CRAFT AND DESIGN ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds BEREAVED FAMILIES OF C.B. (ADOLESCENT GRIEF APP) ↗
  • Who funds GLACE BAY FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GLACE BAY CITIZENS SERVICE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds New Dawn Meals on Wheels ↗
  • Who funds Cape Breton Community Housing Association ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SYDNEY FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES - INNER CITY CHURCHES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS TO EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ST. ANNE COMMUNITY AND NURSING CARE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Society of Deaf & Hard of Hearing ↗
  • Who funds St. Martha's Regional Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds VON NS ↗
  • Who funds IWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Health Partners ↗

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…United Way of Colches…The John and Jeanne E…Corporation of the Si…Mental Health Foundat…Masonic Foundation of…Congregation of Notre…Sydney Credit Union C…The Windsor FoundationSisters of Charity Mo…The Catholic Episcopa…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS30.8× affinity83 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 · United Way of Colchester County · The John and Jeanne Eyking Family Foundation · Corporation of the Sisters of St Martha · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc. · Sydney Credit Union Charitable Foundation · The Windsor Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · The Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Antigonish

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 231 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 108160086:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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