Nova Scotia · Registered charity
THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA
THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$492,716 to it, the largest being CRAIG FOUNDATION (C$154,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA has grown faster than half of the 1,067 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts 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.
- Robert Pope Foundationlocalportfolio match
- O.E. Smith Trustlocal
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio 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 33% · 2018 28% · 2019 28% · 2020 38% · 2021 75% · 2022 65% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
25% of THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose C$26k → C$65k.
From the CRA filings of THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA’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
THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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 THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 42% · 2019 47% · 2020 43% · 2021 43% · 2022 35% · 2023 38% — 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
42% of THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.
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
73% of THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA'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. C$5k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 18 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Robert Pope Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- O.E. Smith TrustlocalNS · funds 6 organizations near you
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The George W. Wilson and Teresa Madelyn (Merriam) Wilson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Spatz FoundationlocalNS · funds 9 organizations near you
- Fairview Pastoral ChargelocalNS · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Evangelical Lutheran Church of the ResurrectionlocalNS · funds 4 organizations near you
- Parish of Saint Francis by the LakeslocalNS · funds 4 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.
Government revenue THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 47% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THEATRE 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
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA?
- THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$492,716 to it, the largest being CRAIG FOUNDATION (C$154,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 18 organizations giving C$492,716 in grants to THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA?
- CRAIG FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$154,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THEATRE NOVA SCOTIA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 18 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