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Bridgewater, NS · Public foundation

United Way of Lunenburg County

Community building to create and expand a safe and supportive community in lunenburg county ns.

C$243k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$93k
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$10k8 grants · C$46k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$104k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$93k
C$8,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$243k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF HALIFAXC$93,264
YMCA OF SOUTHWEST NOVA SOCTIA ASSOCIATIONC$37,200
THE SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAULC$25,165
SOUTH SHORE FAMILY RESOURCE ASSOCIATIONC$11,000
ST STEPHENS ANGLICAN PARISHC$10,660
MUNICIPALITY OF THE DISTRICT OF LUNENBURGC$10,000
HINCHINBROOK FARM SOCIETYC$10,000
AUTISM NOVA SCOTIAC$8,500
Individual grant recipientC$8,000
MUNICIPALITY OF CHESTER TRANSPORTATION SOCIETYC$7,500
SOUTH SHORE REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATIONC$6,900
KIDNEY FOUNDATIONC$5,000
SENIOR WHEELS ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
SEXUAL HEALTH CENTER LUNENBURG COUNTYC$4,000
LUNENBURG COUNTY ADULT LEARNING NETWORK ASSOCIATIONC$1,200
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$765k · 34 repeat orgsC$198k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
35

Total granted

C$765k
C$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+27%

Still filing today

82%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$101k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’23’24
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

  • YO
    YMCA OF SOUTHWEST NOVA SOCTIA ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$165k · revenue +232%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$87k · revenue +572% · 78% of their budget
  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$78k · revenue ×506

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF BRIDGEWATER
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
    one grant, 2021 · C$12k
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NOVA SCOTIA
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue -78%

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 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
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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3
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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4
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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5
South Coast Wellness Addictions and Mental Health

CAMHS provides adult mental health services addiction services for all ages mental health and addiction crisis services peer support services (consumer survivor initiative) peer support for the crisis stabilization beds (community partner…

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6
Services and Housing in the Province (Ship)

Services and Housing In the Province (SHIP) is a community based agency providing a spectrum of low to high intensity housing and support services through a variety of programs. Support services include supportive counselling intensive…

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7
Feed Nova Scotia Society

Feed nova scotia society (metro food bank society - nova scotia) operating as feed nova scotia is a charitable organization whose mission is to partnere to to create systemic changes while while responding to the immediate need for…

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8
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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9
Society of Atlantic Heroes Recovery and Reintegration

The Society continued to develop its strategic programming to provide supportive housing to veterans and first responders and immediate families who must travel extended distances to attend specialist medical appointments in Halifax…

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10
South Shore Health Foundation

Financially support the fishermen's memorial hospital and the south shore regional hospital plus associated sites within lunenburg county by raising funds to enhance and improve the quality of health care services and equipment.

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11
Family Services of the North Shore

Family services of the north shore is a non-profit community-based agency. for over 60 years we have been committed to making deep and lasting impact across the entire north shore from deep cove to bowen island and every point in between.…

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12
United Way Southern Vancouver Island

We are committed to meaningful engagement collaboration and collective action to find solutions to systemic issues that lead us to a better future and stronger local communities. our mandate is local; everything we do is for the betterment…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Southwest Nova Scotia Association and the most unlike its peers is Lunenburg County Adult Learning Network 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

53 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. 53 of the 71 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/53
Grantees still filing
41/53
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 budgetYMCA OF SOUTHWEST NOVA SOCTIA ASSOCIATION — C$164,700 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL — C$86,765 over 5y, 78% of budgetSOUTH SHORE REGIONAL CENTRE FOR EDUCATION — C$77,507 over 3y, 14% of budgetSOUTH SHORE FAMILY RESOURCE ASSOCIATION — C$58,580 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetST STEPHENS ANGLICAN PARISH — C$39,615 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetUnited Way -National — C$32,900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHINCHINBROOK FARM SOCIETY — C$28,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetHINCHINBROOK FARM SOCIETY — C$25,945 over 6y, 12% of budgetSOUTH SHORE BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — C$24,091 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetSecond Story Women's Centre — C$22,644 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetSENIOR WHEELS ASSOCIATION — C$22,205 over 6y, 59% of budgetMUNICIPALITY OF CHESTER TRANSPORTATION SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetAUTISM NOVA SCOTIA — C$17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSEXUAL HEALTH CENTER LUNENBURG COUNTY — C$14,380 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICE ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN NOVA SCOTIA — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES FOR CANADA — C$6,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMahone Bay and Area Outdoor Swimming Pool — C$6,355 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTH SHORE TRANSITION HOUSE - HARBOUR HOU — C$4,543 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY JUSTICE SOCIETY — C$4,230 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSOULS HARBOUR RESCUE MISSION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR HEALTH CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMAHONE BAY CENTRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetBridgewater Interchurch Food Bank — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFox Point Community Centre — C$2,470 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$1,295 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross Nova Scotia — C$1,108 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAHONE BAY FOUNDERS SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetIWK FOUNDATION — C$978 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEcojustice Society Canada — C$560 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation General Vanier De L Association Du 22E Inc. — C$540 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHealth Partners — C$520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOREHAM VILLAGE SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe War Amputations of Canada — C$360 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHAID TREE ANIMAL SHELTER — C$313 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ATLANTIC ASSOCIATION — C$276 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIAN ORDER OF NURSES — C$239 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChrysalis House Associaiton — C$234 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoy Scouts of Canada - Manitoba Council — C$216 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCovenant House Toronto — C$194 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOS Children's Villages — C$194 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYarmouth County Ground Search and Rescue Team — C$180 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYarmouth Hospital Foundation — C$180 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association - NS — C$117 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWindsor Plains United Baptist Church — C$108 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRANCISCANS OF HALIFAX SOCIETY — C$104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSchizophrenia Society of Nova Scotia — C$72 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetProstate Cancer Canada — C$64 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…J and W Murphy Founda…Masonic Foundation of…Mental Health Foundat…United Way of Cape Br…Leanne Children's Fou…United Way of Colches…The Windsor FoundationSisters of Charity Mo…St Matthews Lutheran …Fred and Edith Greene…
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des MaritimesNS18.1× affinity21 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 · J and W Murphy Foundation · Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia · Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia · United Way of Cape Breton County · Leanne Children's Foundation · United Way of Colchester County · The Windsor Foundation · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · St Matthews Lutheran Congregation · Fred and Edith Greene 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 71 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 862524485:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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