Nova Scotia · Registered charity
Alexander Graham Bell Foundation
Alexander Graham Bell Foundation (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$88,051 to it, the largest being MAKEWAY FOUNDATION (C$49,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Alexander Graham Bell Foundation's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 484 teaching institutions nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- North Mountain Cultural and Recreation Associationlocal
- The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- The Dalglish Family Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 70% · 2018 86% · 2019 14% · 2020 95% · 2021 73% · 2022 48% · 2023 91% · 2024 100%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Alexander Graham Bell Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income fell C$4k → C$240.
From the CRA filings of Alexander Graham Bell Foundation’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
Alexander Graham Bell Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 Alexander Graham Bell Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 77% · 2021 99% · 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
Alexander Graham Bell Foundation draws 68% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 4 regions in all.
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. Your 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- North Mountain Cultural and Recreation AssociationlocalNS · funds 8 organizations near you
- The Peter and Melanie Munk Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dalglish Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Langar Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maclellan Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Thor E and Nicole Eaton Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Douglas and Margaret Derry Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Michael Young Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John David and Signy Eaton Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jim Meekison & Carolyn Keystone Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shen Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Marta and Owen Boris Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government revenue Alexander Graham Bell Foundation reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 100% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Alexander Graham Bell Foundation
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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Alexander Graham Bell Foundation?
- Alexander Graham Bell Foundation (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$88,051 to it, the largest being MAKEWAY FOUNDATION (C$49,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alexander Graham Bell Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$88,051 in grants to Alexander Graham Bell Foundation, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alexander Graham Bell Foundation?
- MAKEWAY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$49,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alexander Graham Bell Foundation 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 5 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