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HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$7,557 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$5,760). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$184k
Revenue FY2024
4
Funders on record
C$8k
Grants received
C$873k
Net assets
2/4 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,881 community resource nonprofits its size.

Operating margin61% · top quartile
Months of reserve111.9mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)10% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource 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$93k) Expenses 100 (C$59k) Net assets 100 (C$426k)2018 Revenue 112 (C$104k) Expenses 128 (C$76k) Net assets 107 (C$454k)2019 Revenue 136 (C$127k) Expenses 112 (C$66k) Net assets 121 (C$515k)2020 Revenue 115 (C$107k) Expenses 95 (C$56k) Net assets 133 (C$566k)2021 Revenue 109 (C$101k) Expenses 111 (C$66k) Net assets 141 (C$601k)2022 Revenue 153 (C$143k) Expenses 96 (C$57k) Net assets 161 (C$687k)2023 Revenue 140 (C$131k) Expenses 97 (C$57k) Net assets 179 (C$761k)2024 Revenue 197 (C$184k) Expenses 121 (C$72k) Net assets 205 (C$873k)
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Revenue (197)Expenses (121)Net assets (205)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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2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 97% · 2018 90% · 2019 93% · 2020 94% · 2021 100% · 2022 71% · 2023 77% · 2024 76%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,649 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$34k
’17
C$29k
’18
C$60k
’19
C$51k
’20
C$35k
’21
C$86k
’22
C$73k
’23
C$113k
’24
112
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$1k → C$1k.

Funder
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'22
'23
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$96
funders
1
2
3
1
1
2
2

From the CRA filings of HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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

HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 76% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.

76%
largest funder
99%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 85% · 2019 83% · 2020 100% · 2022 78% · 2023 74% — 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

HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 3 regions in all.

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

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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.

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 HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT reports

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

FY2024C$139k
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  • 76% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT

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

The L'Ardoise and District Volunteer Fire Dept Association75%Nictaux and District Volunteer Fire Department72%Tatamagouche Voluntary Fire Department72%Little Harbour Fire Department72%Caribou District Fire Dept71%Louisbourg Volunteer Fire Department71%North Shore and District Volunteer Fire Department71%The L H & Area Fire Department71%

Nationally

The L'Ardoise and District Volunteer Fire Dept Association75%Cartier Volunteer Fire Department74%Nictaux and District Volunteer Fire Department72%Tatamagouche Voluntary Fire Department72%Little Harbour Fire Department72%Caribou District Fire Dept71%Louisbourg Volunteer Fire Department71%North Shore and District Volunteer Fire Department71%
04Profile & governance

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

Governance

3
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$7,557 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$5,760). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$7,557 in grants to HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne is the largest funder on record, with C$5,760 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HAVRE BOUCHER AND DISTRICT (NO. 9) VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nova Scotia.

Play a game about who funds Havre Boucher and District (No. 9) Volunteer Fire Department →

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 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