Nova Scotia · Registered charity
AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION
AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$49,448 to it, the largest being J and W Murphy Foundation (C$25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,067 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Black Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Craig Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The George W. Wilson and Teresa Madelyn (Merriam) Wilson Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$96 → C$3k.
From the CRA filings of AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
51% of AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION's grant income comes from Nova Scotia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.
- Black Family Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNS · backs 35 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Craig Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The George W. Wilson and Teresa Madelyn (Merriam) Wilson Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stonefields Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Pope Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- O.E. Smith Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Scott Griffin Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poorshared funderslocalNS · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 13 organizations near you
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Nova Scotia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Questions and answers
- Who funds AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION?
- AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$49,448 to it, the largest being J and W Murphy Foundation (C$25,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$49,448 in grants to AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION?
- J and W Murphy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AFTERWORDS LITERARY FESTIVAL ORGANISATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nova Scotia.
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2024–2024), and the filings of 4 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register