Nova Scotia · Registered charity
BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY
BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$89,461 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CAPE BRETON COUNTY (C$37,210). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 3,008 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,008 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Sydney Credit Union Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Rural Communities Foundation of Nova Scotialocalportfolio match
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotialocalportfolio 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 1% · 2018 13% · 2022 89% · 2023 81% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
97% of BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (97% 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$4k.
From the CRA filings of BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY’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
BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 88% · 2020 83% · 2021 51% · 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
98% of BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY'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. C$20k 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.
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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sydney Credit Union Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rural Communities Foundation of Nova Scotialocalportfolio matchNS · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotialocalportfolio matchNS · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Christofor Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wesley and Patricia Armour Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mais Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faye and David Huestis Family Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lockhart Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sir James Dunn Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Retired Teachers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John and Jeanne Eyking Family FoundationlocalNS · funds 13 organizations near you
- Charles and Mary Maclennan FoundationlocalNS · funds 3 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.
Government revenue BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 12% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY
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
31% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY?
- BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$89,461 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CAPE BRETON COUNTY (C$37,210). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$89,461 in grants to BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY?
- UNITED WAY OF CAPE BRETON COUNTY is the largest funder on record, with C$37,210 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BEREAVED FAMILIES OF CAPE BRETON SOCIETY 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 6 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