Nova Scotia · Registered charity
CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,060 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (C$1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,881 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource 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.
- Wesleyan Church of Yarmouthlocal
- The Interlake Community Foundation Incportfolio match
- Rosemary McCain Charitable 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 94% · 2018 96% · 2019 95% · 2020 93% · 2021 99% · 2022 83% · 2023 84% · 2024 75%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the CRA filings of CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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
CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% 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 CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
“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
94% of CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$60 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 1 region.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$1k 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.
- Wesleyan Church of YarmouthlocalNS · funds 12 organizations near you
- The Interlake Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rosemary McCain Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lions Club of Goderich Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Presbyterian Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ottawa Valley Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Smiths Falls (Service Fund) Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E K M Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Battle River Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ashton United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brenda & Dave Walden Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Windsor Elms Village for Continuing Care Societyportfolio 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 CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 75% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
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
99% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,060 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (C$1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 94% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$1,060 in grants to CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY 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 CARLETON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 2 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