Nova Scotia · Registered charity
Divine Renovation Ministry
Divine Renovation Ministry (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,640,169 to it, the largest being LUX IN TENEBRIS FOUNDATION (C$4,145,010). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Divine Renovation Ministry runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 550 support of religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 support of religion nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- The Charis Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Hebron Christian Reformed Churchportfolio match
- Vanastra Community Christian Reformed Churchportfolio 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: 2018 0% · 2019 4% · 2020 24% · 2021 1% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
50% of Divine Renovation Ministry’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (61% 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 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose C$10k → C$74k.
From the CRA filings of Divine Renovation Ministry’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
Divine Renovation Ministry leans on a few funders — its largest provides 89% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 Divine Renovation Ministry.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 83% · 2021 94% · 2022 77% · 2023 47% — 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.
How long its funders stay
17% of Divine Renovation Ministry's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
Divine Renovation Ministry draws 99% 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. 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 17 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Charis Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hebron Christian Reformed Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Vanastra Community Christian Reformed Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stoneridge Fellowship Baptist Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christian Reformed Church of Draytonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Palmerston Christian Reformed Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Essex Christian Reformed Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kiervin Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Christian Reformed Church of Wallaceburgportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hillside Christian Reformed Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sisters of Holy Cross of St Joseph's Provinceshared fundersON · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- The Damascus Road Foundationshared fundersON · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
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 Divine Renovation Ministry reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 0% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Divine Renovation Ministry
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Divine Renovation Ministry?
- Divine Renovation Ministry (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,640,169 to it, the largest being LUX IN TENEBRIS FOUNDATION (C$4,145,010). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Divine Renovation Ministry have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 17 organizations giving C$4,640,169 in grants to Divine Renovation Ministry, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Divine Renovation Ministry?
- LUX IN TENEBRIS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$4,145,010 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Divine Renovation Ministry 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 17 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