Nova Scotia · Registered charity
HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$112,883 to it, the largest being ESTATE OF L.V. SMITH (C$68,120). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION has grown faster than half of the 3,067 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,067 foundations 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.
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poorlocalportfolio match
- Halifax Protestant Infants Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Flemming Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio 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.
25% of HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$12k → C$29k.
From the CRA filings of HALIFAX CHILDREN'S 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
HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 72% · 2019 68% · 2020 71% · 2021 68% · 2022 68% · 2023 61% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION'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. 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poorlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 13 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Halifax Protestant Infants Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Flemming Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Halifax Youth Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNS · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Black Family Foundationshared funderslocalNS · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you
- The Retired Teachers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fairview Pastoral Chargeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bert and Shari Frizzell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement CentrelocalNS · funds 13 organizations near you
- The Wadih M. Fares Family FoundationlocalNS · funds 10 organizations near you
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.
Organizations like HALIFAX CHILDREN'S 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
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION?
- HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$112,883 to it, the largest being ESTATE OF L.V. SMITH (C$68,120). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$112,883 in grants to HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION?
- ESTATE OF L.V. SMITH is the largest funder on record, with C$68,120 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HALIFAX CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION 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 7 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