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Truro, NS · Charitable organization

United Way of Colchester County

Bikes for kids-collect gently-used bicycles from community donors; bikes are refurbished by volunteers; distributed for children in need back to school-through donations from the business community and individuals new back packs with starter kits of school supplies are distributed throughout the county funding streams: various grants…

C$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
62
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$21k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 62 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k51 grants · C$68k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$162k
C$450
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$516k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANDIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION; CEH BRANCHC$20,796
MAGGIE'S PLACE: CUMBERLANDC$19,600
MAGGIE'S PLACE-A RESOURCE CENTRE FOR FAMILIES ASSOCIATIONC$17,712
ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF MAINLAND NOVA SCOTIAC$17,672
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRURO AND COLCHESTERC$15,432
COLCHESTER ADULT LEARNING ASSOCIATIONC$15,278
THIRD PLACE TRANSITION HOUSEC$11,777
TATAMAGOUCHE CENTREC$11,250
SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE FOR CUMBERLAND COUNTYC$11,250
AFTER THE SCHOOL BELL FOOD PROGRAMC$11,067
AMHERST PRESCHOOLC$10,000
AUTISM NOVA SCOTIA: CUMBERLAND CHAPTERC$7,800
AUTISM NOVA SCOTIA: TRURO CHAPTERC$7,800
COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETYC$6,167
CUMBERLAND COUNTY TRANSPORTATION SERVICESC$5,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Nova Scotia
C$1.4M
Ontario
C$7k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$4k
New Brunswick
C$4k
Quebec
C$1k
Manitoba
C$702
British Columbia
C$468
Prince Edward Island
C$45

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.4M · 80 repeat orgsC$112k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

80 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

80
65

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+20%

Still filing today

95%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$16k 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

  • MP
    MAGGIE'S PLACE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$243k · revenue +118%
  • CA
    COLCHESTER ADULT LEARNING ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$151k · revenue +90%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRURO AND COLCHESTER
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$124k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CA
    COLCHESTER ADULT LEARNING ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$34k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k
  • CA
    CORNERSTONE ASSEMBLY
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue -10%

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.

1
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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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
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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4
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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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
Nova Scotia Health Research Foundation
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7
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Newfoundland and Labrador)

The spca nl is an animal welfare organization that provides leadership education and consistent voice on matters that promote and improve the welfare of animals. we care for shelter animals in need prevent cruelty and encourage responsible…

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8
New Brunswick Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals/Société protectrice des animaux (Noveau-Brunswick)

Develop and supervise a highly skilled team of animal protection services - who investigate animal abuse and neglect complaints across nb including laying charges under the spca act and the criminal code of canada. respond to animal…

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9
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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10
Halifax Transition House Association

The charity provided temporary emergency shelter for more than 250 women and families leaving situations of intimate partner violence (IPV) at the Bryony House Shelter. Programs offered at the shelter consisted of one-on-one supportive…

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11
Friends of Tnr

Provides spaying/neutering services of stray cats of Yarmouth NS and surrounding communities. Volunteers capture & care for the stray cats providing food shelter medical necessities until the stray cats are spayed/neutered. The volunteers…

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12
Eating Disorders Nova Scotia Association

Support for those impacted by eating disorders including peer support education and assistance navigating resources. Nutrition counselling Psychological Counselling

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Nova Scotia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty and the most unlike its peers is Murray's Point Cemetery. 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

144 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. 144 of the 164 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)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
136/144
Grantees still filing
87/144
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAGGIE'S PLACE — C$242,767 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetCOLCHESTER ADULT LEARNING ASSOCIATION — C$151,208 over 7y, 11% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TRURO AND COLCHESTER — C$124,454 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION COLCHESTER EAST HANTS BRA — C$117,343 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTRURO HOMELESS OUTREACH SOCIETY — C$110,549 over 7y, 27% of budgetThird Place Transition House — C$72,899 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION CEH BRANCH — C$70,073 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMACPHEE CENTRE FOR CREATIVE LEARNING — C$56,500 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetTATAMAGOUCHE CENTRE — C$51,750 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetAUTISM NOVA SCOTIA — C$49,835 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF MAINLAND NS — C$40,172 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRAL NOVA WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE — C$31,770 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetBRIDGES INSTITUTE — C$30,830 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE FOR CUMBERLAND COUNTY — C$26,250 over 2y, 15% of budgetAFTER THE SCHOOL BELL FOOD PROGRAM — C$21,067 over 2y, 12% of budgetAMHERST PRESCHOOL — C$20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNORTHERN HEALTHY CONNECTIONS SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE LOTUS CENTRE — C$10,117 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCUMBERLAND COUNTY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCORNERSTONE ASSEMBLY — C$9,568 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCOLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$9,545 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetIWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$8,491 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOLCHESTER EAST-HANTS HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$8,265 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSCHOOLS PLUS/CCRCEC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS NOVA SCOTIA — C$4,837 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOBEQUID WILDLIFE REHAB CENTRE — C$4,542 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetVON NOVA SCOTIA — C$4,471 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARCHWAY COUNSELLING ASSOCIATION — C$4,041 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$3,934 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HANTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY — C$3,780 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetJohn Howard Society — C$3,613 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL GUIDES OF CANADA NS COUNCIL — C$3,600 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCORPUS CHRISTI PARISH — C$3,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMICMAC BENEVOLENT SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHANTSPORT & AREA COMMUNITY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$2,340 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMETRO FOOD BANK SOCIETY NS — C$2,160 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA SCOTIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMADD COBEQUID — C$1,870 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG ADULT CANCER CANADA — C$1,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO FOOD BANK — C$1,658 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$1,520 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$1,497 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNS FIREFIGHTERS BURN TREATMENT SOCIETY — C$1,404 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetYOUNG ADULT CANCER CANADA — C$1,357 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD DEPOT ALIMENTAIRE INC. — C$1,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEAST HANTS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$1,282 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANI — C$1,271 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$1,250 over 4y, 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/…United Way of Cape Br…The Community Foundat…Masonic Foundation of…United Way of Greater…The Windsor FoundationThe Dr. & Mrs. H. E. …United Way/Centraide …The Medavie Foundatio…Doane Grant Thornton …Clifton Pastoral Char…RCMP Veterans' Associ…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS31.7× affinity66 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 · United Way of Cape Breton County · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick Region Inc\Centraide de la Region Du Grand Moncton Et Du Sud Est Du Nouveau-Brunswick Inc · The Windsor Foundation · The Dr. & Mrs. H. E. Christie Community Foundation · United Way/Centraide (Central N.B./Region Du Centre du N.B.)Inc. · The Medavie Foundation Inc. / la Fondation Medavie Inc. · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · Clifton Pastoral Charge · RCMP Veterans' Association 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 164 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 119278489:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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