Nova Scotia · Registered charity
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 250 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$129,772,765 to it, the largest being THE DALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (C$32,175,171). 161 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 220 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 220 teaching institutions nonprofits over $100M, 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.
- Fairview Pastoral Chargelocal
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrectionlocal
- Parish of Saint Francis by the Lakeslocal
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 44% · 2018 44% · 2019 41% · 2020 42% · 2021 46% · 2022 43% · 2023 42% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
4% of DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% 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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 100 funders to 123 funders, grant income rose C$14M → C$20M.
From the CRA filings of DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 250 funders by total. 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
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 6 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 6 funders 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 DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 23% · 2019 38% · 2020 38% · 2021 43% · 2022 32% · 2023 19% — broadly stable.
“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
52% of DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
52% of DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY'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. C$2.4M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 regions 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 250 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fairview Pastoral ChargelocalNS · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the ResurrectionlocalNS · funds 4 organizations near you
- Parish of Saint Francis by the LakeslocalNS · funds 4 organizations near you
- Residual Trust Under the Will of Patrick PowerlocalNS · funds 4 organizations near you
- Universalist Unitarian Church of HalifaxlocalNS · funds 5 organizations near you
- Rotary Club of Halifax North West Charitable TrustlocalNS · funds 4 organizations near you
- Holy Trinity ChurchlocalNS · funds 3 organizations near you
- Parish of Stewiacke and ShubenacadielocalNS · funds 3 organizations near you
- Mount Saint Vincent UniversitylocalNS · funds 3 organizations near you
- Flemming Charitable FoundationlocalNS · funds 6 organizations near you
- The Bruce and Martha Jodrey FoundationlocalNS · funds 3 organizations near you
- Parish of MusquodoboitlocalNS · funds 4 organizations near you
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 DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 40% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY?
- DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 250 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$129,772,765 to it, the largest being THE DALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION (C$32,175,171). 161 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 250 organizations giving C$129,772,765 in grants to DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY, 161 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY?
- THE DALHOUSIE MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$32,175,171 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY 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 250 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