Nova Scotia · Registered charity
CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY
CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$45,898 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE W. WILSON AND TERESA MADELYN (MERRIAM) WILSON FOUNDATION (C$25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,070 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,070 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.
- J and W Murphy Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Craig Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The David and Faye Sobey Foundationshared fundersportfolio 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 3% · 2019 2% · 2020 21% · 2021 3% · 2022 3% · 2023 2% · 2024 6%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
78% of CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (28% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose C$2k → C$30k.
From the CRA filings of CHESTER BRASS BAND 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
CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 75% · 2022 45% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
54% of CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY'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.
- J and W Murphy Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Craig Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 7 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The David and Faye Sobey Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 3 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Edwards Family Charitable Foundationshared fundersNS · backs 5 organizations that share your funders
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Perlin Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Halifax Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dr. & Mrs. H. E. Christie Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotiaportfolio 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 CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 6% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CHESTER BRASS BAND 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY?
- CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$45,898 to it, the largest being THE GEORGE W. WILSON AND TERESA MADELYN (MERRIAM) WILSON FOUNDATION (C$25,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$45,898 in grants to CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY?
- THE GEORGE W. WILSON AND TERESA MADELYN (MERRIAM) WILSON FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHESTER BRASS BAND SOCIETY 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 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