Nova Scotia · Registered charity
PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS)
PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS) (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$943 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$528). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS) has grown faster than half of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- The United Way of Pictou Countylocalportfolio match
- Aberdeen Health Foundation Societylocalportfolio match
- Fred and Edith Greene Foundationshared fundersportfolio 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 76% · 2018 79% · 2019 88% · 2020 82% · 2021 81% · 2023 83% · 2024 89%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
33% of PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$240 → C$317.
From the CRA filings of PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS)’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
PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% 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 PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 2022 61% — 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
PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS) draws 75% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 2 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
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.
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.
- The United Way of Pictou Countylocalportfolio matchNS · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Aberdeen Health Foundation Societylocalportfolio matchNS · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Fred and Edith Greene Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 5 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Windsor Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 10 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Admiral Murray Naval Assoc. Bursary FundlocalNS · funds 9 organizations near you
- Rotary Club of Charlottetown Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nipawin & District Donors Choice Combined Appealportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- GJM Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Cape Breton Countyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Flemming Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The George W. Wilson and Teresa Madelyn (Merriam) Wilson Foundationportfolio 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 PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 89% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS)
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS)?
- PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS) (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$943 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$528). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$943 in grants to PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS), 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS)?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$528 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PEOPLE FIRST NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (PFNS) 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 3 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