Nova Scotia · Registered charity
HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY
HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$76,327 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$61,910). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY's revenue fell 82% between 2017 and 2023.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 857 supportive health care 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.
- Flemming Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotiashared funderslocalportfolio match
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poorlocalportfolio 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 14% · 2019 2% · 2020 18% · 2022 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell C$18k → C$9k.
From the CRA filings of HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY’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 N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 81% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 100% · 2019 95% · 2020 80% · 2021 91% · 2022 87% · 2023 76% — 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
HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY draws 92% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 3 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.
- Flemming Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotiashared funderslocalportfolio matchNS · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poorlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Halifax Youth Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNS · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Black Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Halifax Protestant Infants Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kiwanis Club of Dartmouth Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Retired Teachers Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ontario Caregiver Organizationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goodlife Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edwards Family Charitable Foundationportfolio 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 HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 29% of FY2022 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME 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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY?
- HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$76,327 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$61,910). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$76,327 in grants to HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$61,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HALIFAX N.S. DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY 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 2017–2023), and the filings of 4 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