Nova Scotia · Registered charity
BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,623 to it, the largest being ST. PETER'S PASTORAL CHARGE (C$1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT has grown faster than half of the 158 protective health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 158 protective health care 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.
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotialocalportfolio match
- E K M Health Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Scarboro Foreign Mission Societyshared funders
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 42% · 2018 47% · 2019 59% · 2020 65% · 2021 60% · 2022 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
42% of BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell C$1k → C$383.
From the CRA filings of BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 3 of 4 funders by total. 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
BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 62% 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 BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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.
Where its funders are
62% of BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT'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.
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotialocalportfolio matchNS · funds 111 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- E K M Health Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 40 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Scarboro Foreign Mission Societyshared fundersON · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Admiral Murray Naval Assoc. Bursary Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Interlake Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lions Club of Goderich Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rotary Clubs of Kings County Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beautiful Plains Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brian Todd Memorial Community Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Battle River Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dryden Rotary Charity 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 BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 51% of FY2022 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
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.
Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT?
- BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,623 to it, the largest being ST. PETER'S PASTORAL CHARGE (C$1,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$1,623 in grants to BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT?
- ST. PETER'S PASTORAL CHARGE is the largest funder on record, with C$1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG POND VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT 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 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