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Nova Scotia · Registered charity

FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY

FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$56,216 to it, the largest being THE SEAGULL FOUNDATION (C$16,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

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Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
C$56k
Grants received
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Net assets
3/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 89%

Against its field

FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY's revenue fell 72% between 2017 and 2023.

Revenue growth (annualized)−19% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,180 public amenities nonprofits under $100k, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$60k) Expenses 100 (C$29k)2018 Revenue 35 (C$21k) Expenses 75 (C$22k)2019 Revenue 45 (C$27k) Expenses 130 (C$38k)2020 Revenue 29 (C$18k) Expenses 52 (C$15k)2021 Revenue 8 (C$5k) Expenses 32 (C$9k)2022 Revenue 41 (C$25k) Expenses 38 (C$11k) Net assets 100 (C$174k)2023 Revenue 28 (C$17k) Expenses 40 (C$12k) Net assets 103 (C$180k)2024
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Revenue (28)Expenses (40)Net assets (103)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 47% · 2018 1% · 2019 30% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

44% of FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (28% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,860 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

C$31k
’17
−C$849
’18
−C$11k
’19
C$2k
’20
−C$5k
’21
C$14k
’22
C$5k
’23
’24
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 4 funders, grant income fell C$5k → C$2k.

From the CRA filings of FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY’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

FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 72%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY.

29%
largest funder
72%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 73% · 2019 83% · 2020 81% · 2021 62% · 2022 58% · 2023 50% — 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

22% of FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 23% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

56% of FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY's grant income comes from Nova Scotia funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nova Scotia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$26k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2023C$2k
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  • 12% of FY2023 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Governance

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board members

Questions and answers

Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY?
FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$56,216 to it, the largest being THE SEAGULL FOUNDATION (C$16,500). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$56,216 in grants to FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY?
THE SEAGULL FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$16,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FRIENDS OF THE PUGWASH ESTUARY 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 2017–2023), and the filings of 13 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