Nova Scotia · Registered charity
HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION
HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$156,104 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$116,085). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 119 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 education in the arts nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- Sydney Credit Union Charitable Foundationlocal
- Craig Foundationportfolio match
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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: 2019 14% · 2020 47% · 2021 51% · 2022 39% · 2023 42% · 2024 23%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (12% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose C$400 → C$12k.
From the CRA filings of HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION’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
HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 54% · 2021 99% · 2022 92% · 2023 86% — 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
HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION draws 93% 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. C$6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sydney Credit Union Charitable FoundationlocalNS · funds 9 organizations near you
- Craig Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Pope Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingfisher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Incite Foundation for the Artsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Perlin Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The George W. Wilson and Teresa Madelyn (Merriam) Wilson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wettstein Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio 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 HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 23% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION
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 HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION?
- HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$156,104 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$116,085). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$156,104 in grants to HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$116,085 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like HIGHLAND ARTS THEATRE ASSOCIATION 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 6 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