Nova Scotia · Registered charity
COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION
COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$138,636 to it, the largest being Trans Canada trail / Sentier transcanadien (C$112,324). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities 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.
- Grace United Churchlocal
- Halifax Foundationportfolio match
- The Barron Cowan 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 96% · 2018 80% · 2019 71% · 2020 66% · 2021 65% · 2022 79% · 2023 52% · 2024 79%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income rose C$4k → C$13k.
From the CRA filings of COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION’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
COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% 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 COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 54% · 2019 90% · 2020 97% · 2021 80% · 2022 92% · 2023 55% — 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
COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 5 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$4k 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. Your 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Grace United ChurchlocalNS · funds 2 organizations near you
- Halifax Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Barron Cowan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nature Canada / Canada Natureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nova Scotia Nature Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rural Communities Foundation of Nova Scotiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greenbelt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Td Friends of the Environment Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gosling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Carter Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Schad Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marguerite Hubbard Charitable 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 COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 79% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION
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 COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION?
- COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$138,636 to it, the largest being Trans Canada trail / Sentier transcanadien (C$112,324). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$138,636 in grants to COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION?
- Trans Canada trail / Sentier transcanadien is the largest funder on record, with C$112,324 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like COLE HARBOUR PARKS AND TRAILS ASSOCIATION 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 7 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