Nova Scotia · Registered charity
BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND
BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$11,771 to it, the largest being LLOYD CARR-HARRIS FOUNDATION (C$10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND's revenue fell 27% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 781 education in the arts 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.
- United Way of Lunenburg Countylocal
- The David and Faye Sobey Foundationportfolio match
- The Perlin Family Trustportfolio 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: 2018 5% · 2020 18% · 2022 37% · 2023 12% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell C$11k → C$64.
From the CRA filings of BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND’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
BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 95% · 2020 74% · 2021 96% · 2022 100% · 2023 44% — 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
BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 3 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.
- United Way of Lunenburg CountylocalNS · funds 12 organizations near you
- The David and Faye Sobey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Perlin Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Windsor Elms Village for Continuing Care Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fredericton Community Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gill Ratcliffe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Halifax Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Norfolk Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Cape Breton Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sobey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richardson Foundation Inc. /Fondation Richardson Inc.portfolio 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 BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 27% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND?
- BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$11,771 to it, the largest being LLOYD CARR-HARRIS FOUNDATION (C$10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$11,771 in grants to BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND?
- LLOYD CARR-HARRIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGEWATER FIRE DEPARTMENT BAND 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 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