Nova Scotia · Registered charity
IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK
IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$35,200 to it, the largest being MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA (C$17,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 3,008 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,008 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Cumberland Adult Network for Upgrading (Can-U) Associationlocal
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)portfolio match
- The Junior League of Torontoportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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: 2023 14% · 2024 81%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the CRA filings of IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK’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
IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK leans on a few funders — its largest provides 50% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK.
“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
91% of IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK's grant income comes from Nova Scotia funders.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$16k 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Cumberland Adult Network for Upgrading (Can-U) AssociationlocalNS · funds 12 organizations near you
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Junior League of Torontoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Virgin Unite (Canada) Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A Dollar A Day Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acorn Seed Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St George's Society of Torontoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Kerr Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Meaningful Work Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St. Andrew's Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Johansen-Larsen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- First Unitarian Universalist Church of Winnipeg Incportfolio 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 IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 81% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK
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
43% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK?
- IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$35,200 to it, the largest being MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA (C$17,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$35,200 in grants to IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK.
- Who is the largest funder of IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK?
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA is the largest funder on record, with C$17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IN THE WORKS - A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE NETWORK 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 2023–2024), 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