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GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION

GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$314,419 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (C$205,833). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$2.4M
Revenue FY2024
11
Funders on record
C$314k
Grants received
C$868k
Net assets
7/11 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 7%

Against its field

GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve-1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,019 teaching institutions 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.

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$1.6M) Expenses 100 (C$1.7M) Net assets 100 (C$1.2M)2018 Revenue 108 (C$1.7M) Expenses 108 (C$1.8M) Net assets 93 (C$1.1M)2019 Revenue 109 (C$1.7M) Expenses 119 (C$2.0M) Net assets 145 (C$1.7M)2020 Revenue 122 (C$1.9M) Expenses 117 (C$2.0M) Net assets 81 (C$933k)2021 Revenue 82 (C$1.3M) Expenses 74 (C$1.2M) Net assets 87 (C$1.0M)2022 Revenue 80 (C$1.3M) Expenses 82 (C$1.4M) Net assets 78 (C$906k)2023 Revenue 112 (C$1.8M) Expenses 106 (C$1.8M) Net assets 62 (C$719k)2024 Revenue 151 (C$2.4M) Expenses 147 (C$2.5M) Net assets 75 (C$868k)
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Revenue (151)Expenses (147)Net assets (75)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 17% · 2018 31% · 2019 31% · 2020 27% · 2021 52% · 2022 53% · 2023 35% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

20% of GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (12% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 821 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$80k
’17
−C$81k
’18
−C$253k
’19
−C$11k
’20
C$74k
’21
−C$101k
’22
C$11k
’23
−C$49k
’24
-1.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$643 → C$59k.

From the CRA filings of GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION’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

GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 91%; 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 GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION.

65%
largest funder
91%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 93% · 2018 60% · 2019 43% · 2020 45% · 2021 66% · 2022 93% · 2023 83% — 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

43% of GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

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

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

66% of GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$106k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from Nova Scotia funders.

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

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’23
Nova Scotia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$209k 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 11 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 GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION reports

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

FY2024C$545k
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  • 23% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION

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.

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$314,419 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (C$205,833). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 66% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$314,419 in grants to GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with C$205,833 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like GAELIC COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 11 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