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INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION

INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$173,917 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$66,328). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$4.7M
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
C$174k
Grants received
C$360k
Net assets
3/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Against its field

INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin5% · above the median
Months of reserve1.3mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)35% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty 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.

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$581k) Expenses 100 (C$691k) Net assets 100 (C$9k)2018 Revenue 95 (C$550k) Expenses 74 (C$512k) Net assets 556 (C$47k)2019 Revenue 120 (C$698k) Expenses 97 (C$670k) Net assets 442 (C$38k)2020 Revenue 132 (C$765k) Expenses 105 (C$727k) Net assets 1335 (C$114k)2021 Revenue 129 (C$748k) Expenses 107 (C$737k) Net assets 1239 (C$106k)2022 Revenue 186 (C$1.1M) Expenses 153 (C$1.1M) Net assets 1373 (C$117k)2023 Revenue 457 (C$2.7M) Expenses 381 (C$2.6M) Net assets 1611 (C$137k)2024 Revenue 803 (C$4.7M) Expenses 643 (C$4.4M) Net assets 4215 (C$360k)
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Revenue (803)Expenses (643)Net assets (4215)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
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2021
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 90% · 2018 81% · 2019 85% · 2020 88% · 2021 99% · 2022 96% · 2023 98% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

34% of INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,313 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$110k
’17
C$38k
’18
C$29k
’19
C$38k
’20
C$11k
’21
C$23k
’22
C$20k
’23
C$222k
’24
1.3
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 fell C$9k → C$8k.

From the CRA filings of INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA 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

INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 75%; 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 INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION.

38%
largest funder
75%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2020 76% · 2021 45% · 2022 100% · 2023 96% — 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

29% of INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 2 years after their first grant; 38% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y

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

INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 2 regions in all.

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

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’23
Nova Scotia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$25k 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.

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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION reports

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

FY2024C$4.6M
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  • 99% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA 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

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

7
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION?
INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$173,917 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$66,328). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$173,917 in grants to INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA ASSOCIATION?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$66,328 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like INDEPENDENT LIVING NOVA SCOTIA 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 8 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