Nova Scotia · Registered charity
Bernie's Buddies
Bernie's Buddies (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$15,020 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$9,538). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Bernie's Buddies 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.
- Scholarship Trust Fund Under the Will of Dr Marial Mosher Estateshared funders
- The Children's Grief Foundation of Canadaportfolio match
- The Yellow Bus 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.
100% of Bernie's Buddies’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose C$2k → C$3k.
From the CRA filings of Bernie's Buddies’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
Bernie's Buddies leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 Bernie's Buddies.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 70% · 2020 71% · 2021 72% · 2022 100% · 2023 93% — growing more concentrated.
“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
25% of Bernie's Buddies's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.
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
Bernie's Buddies draws 80% 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.
- Scholarship Trust Fund Under the Will of Dr Marial Mosher Estateshared fundersNS · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- The Children's Grief Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yellow Bus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rosemary McCain Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mackenzie Investments Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cknw Kids' Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chris-Spencer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foord Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rasmussen Foundation Limitedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Keg Spirit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Order of St John Palliative Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Arbor Memorial 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.
Organizations like Bernie's Buddies
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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Bernie's Buddies?
- Bernie's Buddies (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$15,020 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$9,538). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Bernie's Buddies have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$15,020 in grants to Bernie's Buddies, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Bernie's Buddies?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$9,538 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Bernie's Buddies 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 8 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