Nova Scotia · Registered charity
FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY
FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 143 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$28,218,367 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$16,386,301). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$23M
- Funders on record
- 143
- Grants received
- C$28M
- Net assets
- C$11M
What Feed Nova Scotia Society does
Ongoing programs
Feed Nova Scotia Society (metro food bank society - nova scotia) operating as feed nova scotia is a charitable organization whose mission is to partnere to to create systemic changes while while responding to the immediate need for dignified secure and just access to food. A key focus for the society is to collect and distribute food to 140 member agencies across the province including food banks shelters drop-in centres and other meal programs. The society also raises awareness of the systemic issues leading to food insecurity and advocates for long-term solutions.
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from C$5.9M to C$12M (+102%).
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 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 7% · 2021 10% · 2022 2% · 2023 12% · 2024 5%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
93% of FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (2% 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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 49 funders to 79 funders, grant income rose C$1.3M → C$3.8M.
From the CRA filings of FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 143 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
FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 84%; 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 FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 60% · 2018 43% · 2019 47% · 2020 60% · 2021 47% · 2022 51% · 2023 63% — 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.
How long its funders stay
49% of FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY'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
FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 10 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$904k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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.
Against its field
FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 559 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government revenue FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 5% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FEED NOVA SCOTIA 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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY?
- FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 143 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$28,218,367 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$16,386,301). 83 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 143 organizations giving C$28,218,367 in grants to FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY, 83 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$16,386,301 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FEED NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY 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 143 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register