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CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA

CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,661,919 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION (CANADA) (C$655,938). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$249k
Revenue FY2024
22
Funders on record
C$1.7M
Grants received
C$102k
Net assets
16/22 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA's funding base is broadening — from 8 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−2% · below the median
Months of reserve5.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)6% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,747 foundations 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.

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$168k) Expenses 100 (C$209k) Net assets 100 (C$381k)2018 Revenue 106 (C$179k) Expenses 102 (C$213k) Net assets 87 (C$331k)2019 Revenue 113 (C$190k) Expenses 106 (C$221k) Net assets 80 (C$303k)2020 Revenue 118 (C$198k) Expenses 58 (C$120k) Net assets 57 (C$219k)2021 Revenue 185 (C$311k) Expenses 52 (C$109k) Net assets 59 (C$224k)2022 Revenue 137 (C$231k) Expenses 119 (C$247k) Net assets 54 (C$207k)2023 Revenue 79 (C$133k) Expenses 112 (C$234k) Net assets 28 (C$107k)2024 Revenue 148 (C$249k) Expenses 121 (C$253k) Net assets 27 (C$102k)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (148)Expenses (121)Net assets (27)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
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 4% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

92% of CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,134 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$40k
’17
−C$34k
’18
−C$31k
’19
C$78k
’20
C$202k
’21
−C$17k
’22
−C$101k
’23
−C$5k
’24
5.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose C$95k → C$328k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Halifax Youth Foundationunclassified
C$279k
The Windsor Foundationunclassified
C$135k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$57k
Makeway Foundationidentity?
C$38k
funders
8
8
10
7
12
13
13
14

From the CRA filings of CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 22 funders by total. 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

CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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 CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA.

39%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 68% · 2018 70% · 2019 76% · 2020 84% · 2021 54% · 2022 40% · 2023 34% — 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

67% of CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 73% 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

CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 5 regions in all.

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. 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 22 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 CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA reports

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

FY2022C$4k
18
22
  • 2% of FY2022 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA

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

Nova Scotia Council for the Family77%Halifax Youth Foundation75%The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society73%Native Council of Nova Scotia Education Fund73%Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia73%Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia71%Federation of Foster Families of Nova Scotia70%Chisholm Services for Children70%

Nationally

Children's Aid Foundation of Ottawa/La Fondation de L'Aide a L'Enfance D'Ottawa80%The Children's Foundation Serving Hastings Northumberland and Prince Edward Counties79%Nova Scotia Council for the Family77%Children's Aid Foundation of Canada76%The Children's Aid Society of Haldimand and Norfolk75%Halifax Youth Foundation75%Kawartha-Haliburton Children's Foundation75%Children's Aid Foundation of Halton75%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

69% of spending goes to programs.

Program 69%Management 31%Fundraising 0%

Governance

8
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA?
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 22 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,661,919 to it, the largest being DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION (CANADA) (C$655,938). 16 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 22 organizations giving C$1,661,919 in grants to CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA, 16 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA?
DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION (CANADA) is the largest funder on record, with C$655,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA 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 22 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