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Halifax, NS · Private foundation

William L. Pearman Charitable Foundation

Donations to several charitable organizations.

C$115k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$15k
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$10k11 grants · C$65k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$50k
C$7,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ROTARY CLUB OF WOLFVILLEC$15,000
STAGE PROPHETS THEATRICAL SOCIETYC$12,500
ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCHC$12,500
CHRYSALIS HOUSE ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
THE RED DOOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH & SUPPORT CENTREC$9,000
WOLFVILLE AREA INTER-CHURCH COUNCILC$8,000
RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIAC$7,500
LANDMARK EAST FOUNDATION - BUILDING ON SUDDESSC$7,500
ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCHC$7,000
THE FLOWERCART SOCIETYC$5,000
SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL HOPE COTTAGEC$5,000
THE PRIMATES WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUNDC$5,000
KINGS HISTORICAL SOCIETYC$4,500
WOLFVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETYC$4,500
DIOCESE OF NOVA SCOTIA & PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDC$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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$601k · 15 repeat orgsC$19k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

C$601k
C$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+78%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$13k 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

  • CH
    CHRYSALIS HOUSE ASSOCIATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$85k · revenue +109%
  • SJ
    ST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$79k · revenue +7%
  • TR
    THE RED DOOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH & SUPPORT CENTRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$69k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • WL
    Wolfville L'Arche Homefires Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +26%
  • PO
    Parish of Annapolisgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · 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.

1
Woodstock and District Developmental Services

Provide supports/services for people with developmental disabilities through programs: family support: provide support/assistance for families with children/young adults comjunity activity: provide day time services re:…

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2
Support Services Wood Buffalo Society

The support through housing team society (stht) provides a co-ordinated service to assist individuals with obtaining and maintaining housing.

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3
Women's Hostels Incorporated

The charity operates a 36 bed emergency shelter and community support outreach program for women and their children that are facing violence poverty homelessness and oppression. at the shelter we provide shelter safety counselling referral…

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4
Ywca Peterborough Haliburton

The ywca operates crossroads and hers two emergency shelters for abused women and their children for safety support counselling and practical help. we provide counselling and transition support for abused women in the rural community and…

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5
St Vincent De Paul Society

We work through our parish boundaries helping those in need by providing clothes furniture and household items. We provide any other support a family or individual may need.

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6
Whitesand Anglican Parish

Worship services social outreach

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7
Second Stage Housing Association of Dartmouth

Alice housing is a non-profit housing program which offers a safe non-judgemental environment for women leaving abusive relationships (with or without children) who have identified their own need for ongoing support and counseling. alice…

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8
Robin Hood Association for the Handicapped

Robin hood provides services and supports to children and adults with developmental and multiple disabilities. services include affordable housing training therapy family support transportation and employment.

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9
Alternate Shelter Society

Alternate shelter society provides residential and support services to a population

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10
The Lighthouse Christian Social Services

Help newcomers with settlement issues (school health parenting housing). provide refugees sponsorship advice; provide local food bank for the community; information assistance; consulting; provide income tax assistance for low-income…

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11
Grace Inn Shelter

Grace Inn Shelter operates a homeless shelter. It helps adults in a safe dignified and hospitable environment by meeting essential needs providing compassionate mentors and advocating for a future with hope. We extend hospitality to our…

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12
K-W Habilitation Services

Programs are for children with any special needs (supported in off site childcare settings) and for youth and adults who have primary developmental disability. programs and services include residential living vocational training life…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wolfville Area Interchurch Council and the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Wolfville Charitable Trust. 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
13/18
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHRYSALIS HOUSE ASSOCIATION — C$85,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetST. JOHN'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$78,500 over 8y, 12% of budgetTHE RED DOOR ADOLESCENT HEALTH & SUPPORT CENTRE — C$69,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetTHE FLOWERCART — C$57,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetWOLFVILLE AREA INTER-CHURCH COUNCIL — C$56,500 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetKings Historical Society — C$40,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetWolfville Historical Society — C$37,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetSOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL HOPE COTTAGE — C$36,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTHE PRIMATES WORLD RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT FUND — C$35,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLANDMARK EAST FOUNDATION - BUILDING ON SUDDESS — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF WOLFVILLE — C$22,500 over 2y, 53% of budgetRAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUNIVERSALIST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF HALIFAX — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDIOCESE OF NOVA SCOTIA & PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — C$14,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSTAGE PROPHETS THEATRICAL SOCIETY — C$12,500 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetWOLFVILLE BAPTIST CHURCH — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetWolfville L'Arche Homefires Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetParish of Annapolis — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

E K M Health Foundati…The Community Foundat…United Way Maritimes/…BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…My Tribute Gift Found…United Way East Ontar…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps CanadonCanadian Online Givin…
E K M Health FoundationNS11.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: E K M Health Foundation · The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 18 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 863213310:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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