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BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE

BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$260,138 to it, the largest being THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA FOUNDATION / FONDATION DE L'ÉGLISE UNIE DU CANADA (C$101,530). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$629k
Revenue FY2024
10
Funders on record
C$260k
Grants received
C$2.1M
Net assets
7/10 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$260k to it.

Operating margin2% · below the median
Months of reserve3.1mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 11,997 christianity 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$703k) Expenses 100 (C$501k) Net assets 0 (C$0)2018 Revenue 89 (C$625k) Expenses 104 (C$519k) Net assets 0 (C$0)2019 Revenue 67 (C$470k) Expenses 110 (C$552k) Net assets 0 (C$0)2020 Revenue 85 (C$597k) Expenses 107 (C$534k) Net assets 0 (C$0)2021 Revenue 97 (C$683k) Expenses 122 (C$613k) Net assets 100 (C$2.2M)2022 Revenue 74 (C$523k) Expenses 118 (C$589k) Net assets 93 (C$2.0M)2023 Revenue 71 (C$500k) Expenses 114 (C$570k) Net assets 93 (C$2.0M)2024 Revenue 89 (C$629k) Expenses 124 (C$619k) Net assets 95 (C$2.1M)
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Revenue (89)Expenses (124)Net assets (95)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 5% · 2018 1% · 2019 3% · 2020 17% · 2021 12% · 2023 0% · 2024 3%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (90% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 10,295 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$202k
’17
C$106k
’18
−C$82k
’19
C$64k
’20
C$71k
’21
−C$66k
’22
−C$69k
’23
C$10k
’24
3.1
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income fell C$72k → C$33k.

From the CRA filings of BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE’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

BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 84%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE.

39%
largest funder
84%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 87% · 2019 95% · 2020 55% · 2021 39% · 2022 60% · 2023 40% — diversifying over time.

“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.

How long its funders stay

44% of BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 70% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 3 regions in all.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’23
Nova Scotia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$5k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

03Its place in the field

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 10 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$19k
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  • 3% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 9%Fundraising 0%

Governance

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board members

Questions and answers

Who funds BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE?
BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$260,138 to it, the largest being THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA FOUNDATION / FONDATION DE L'ÉGLISE UNIE DU CANADA (C$101,530). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 10 organizations giving C$260,138 in grants to BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE?
THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA FOUNDATION / FONDATION DE L'ÉGLISE UNIE DU CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$101,530 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like BEDFORD PASTORAL CHARGE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nova Scotia.

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 10 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