Nova Scotia · Registered charity
Friends of TNR
Friends of TNR (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,288 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$9,190). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Friends of TNR runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 435 animal welfare nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 animal welfare nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- Wesleyan Church of Yarmouthlocal
- Animal Aid Foundationportfolio match
- Pacific Animal Foundationportfolio 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 1% · 2021 4% · 2022 4% · 2023 1% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of Friends of TNR’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (53% 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 2 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$1k → C$2k.
From the CRA filings of Friends of TNR’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 TNR leans on a few funders — its largest provides 64% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 Friends of TNR.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 100% · 2019 84% · 2020 61% · 2021 75% · 2022 97% · 2023 88% — 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.
Where its funders are
Friends of TNR draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 4 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.
- Wesleyan Church of YarmouthlocalNS · funds 12 organizations near you
- Animal Aid Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Animal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canfel Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Petsmart Charities of Canada - Charités Petsmart du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kathleen-Mary and Walter Barron Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kindness Club Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paws for Hope Animal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Four Feet Companion Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 TNR reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Friends of TNR
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Friends of TNR?
- Friends of TNR (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,288 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$9,190). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Friends of TNR have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$14,288 in grants to Friends of TNR, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Friends of TNR?
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne is the largest funder on record, with C$9,190 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Friends of TNR 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 6 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