Nova Scotia · Registered charity
CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY
CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$296,328 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$198,692). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 689 education in the arts 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.
- Flemming Charitable Foundationshared funderslocal
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio match
- Alberta Music Education 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 36% · 2018 26% · 2019 23% · 2020 39% · 2021 59% · 2022 70% · 2023 42% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY’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. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$17k → C$48k.
From the CRA filings of CECILIA CONCERTS 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
CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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 CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 53% · 2019 65% · 2020 49% · 2021 71% · 2022 47% · 2023 81% — 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
50% of CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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
CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY draws 73% 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. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 354 organizations that share them.
- Flemming Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalNS · backs 34 organizations that share your funders · funds 6 organizations near you
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Music Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Incite Foundation for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rozsa 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 CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 35% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CECILIA CONCERTS 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
57% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY?
- CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$296,328 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$198,692). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$296,328 in grants to CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$198,692 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CECILIA CONCERTS SOCIETY 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 13 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