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HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) /

HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) / (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$33,107 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$30,932). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$2k
Revenue FY2023
5
Funders on record
C$33k
Grants received
C$29k
Net assets
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 69%

Against its field

HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) /'s revenue fell 97% between 2017 and 2023.

Operating margin−1295% · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−44% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 769 core health care nonprofits under $100k, FY2023

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$50k) Expenses 100 (C$46k) Net assets 100 (C$63k)2018 Revenue 168 (C$84k) Expenses 136 (C$63k) Net assets 134 (C$85k)2019 Revenue 145 (C$73k) Expenses 143 (C$66k) Net assets 146 (C$92k)2020 Revenue 40 (C$20k) Expenses 90 (C$41k) Net assets 112 (C$71k)2021 Revenue 94 (C$48k) Expenses 82 (C$38k) Net assets 128 (C$81k)2022 Revenue 14 (C$7k) Expenses 85 (C$39k) Net assets 77 (C$49k)2023 Revenue 3 (C$2k) Expenses 47 (C$22k) Net assets 45 (C$29k)
2017201820192020202120222023
Revenue (3)Expenses (47)Net assets (45)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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) /’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (82% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 809 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

C$4k
’17
C$22k
’18
C$7k
’19
−C$21k
’20
C$10k
’21
−C$32k
’22
−C$20k
’23
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell C$3k → C$387.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$31k
funders
3
3
3
2
2
3
2

From the CRA filings of HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) /’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

HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) / leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) /.

93%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 83% · 2018 82% · 2019 89% · 2020 97% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 87% — 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

HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) / draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 3 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.

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 HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) /

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

Healing Streams International- a Church With a Global Vision62%The Margaret Salsman Cancer Care Patient Navigator Memorial Fund62%The Rosalin Nickerson 'Care' Fund Society61%Cumberland Health Care Foundation61%The Dr. & Mrs. H. E. Christie Community Foundation60%Medical History Society of Nova Scotia60%'On Eagles Wings' Ministries60%The Jamile and Gabbour Ramia Cancer Foundation60%

Nationally

Christian Healing Associates71%Amberheart Cancer Foundation71%Inspirehealth Society71%Unmasking the Reality of Lung Cancer Society70%Community Cancer Care Team70%Hearth Place Cancer Support Centre69%Foundation for Cancer Wellness68%Drive for the Cure Foundation68%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

4
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) /?
HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) / (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$33,107 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$30,932). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) / have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$33,107 in grants to HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) /, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) /?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$30,932 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HEALING AND CANCER FOUNDATION (HCF) / 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 FY2023 (financials across 2017–2023), and the filings of 5 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