Nova Scotia · Registered charity
Family SOS Association
Family SOS Association (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 36 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,708,986 to it, the largest being HALIFAX YOUTH FOUNDATION (C$350,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Family SOS Association runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty 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 Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundationshared funderslocal
- Fairview Pastoral Chargeportfolio match
- United Way of Lunenburg Countyportfolio 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 72% · 2018 68% · 2019 47% · 2020 57% · 2021 51% · 2022 47% · 2023 38% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Family SOS Association’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 15 funders, grant income rose C$176k → C$215k.
From the CRA filings of Family SOS Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 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
Family SOS Association has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 Family SOS Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 45% · 2019 64% · 2020 43% · 2021 46% · 2022 25% · 2023 30% — 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
40% of Family SOS Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
57% of Family SOS Association'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$20k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 36 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalNS · backs 19 organizations that share your funders · funds 3 organizations near you
- Fairview Pastoral Chargeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Lunenburg Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fred and Edith Greene Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sandbox Project Charityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parkhill United ChurchlocalNS · funds 2 organizations near you
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poorshared funderslocalNS · backs 39 organizations that share your funders · funds 2 organizations near you
- Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement CentrelocalNS · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of HalifaxlocalNS · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Edwards Family Charitable Foundationshared fundersNS · backs 20 organizations that share your funders
- Masonic Foundation of Nova ScotialocalNS · funds 2 organizations near you
- Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundationshared fundersNS · backs 36 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 Family SOS Association reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 30% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Family SOS 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
61% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Family SOS Association?
- Family SOS Association (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 36 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,708,986 to it, the largest being HALIFAX YOUTH FOUNDATION (C$350,000). 21 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Family SOS Association have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 36 organizations giving C$1,708,986 in grants to Family SOS Association, 21 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Family SOS Association?
- HALIFAX YOUTH FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$350,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Family SOS Association 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 36 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