Nova Scotia · Registered charity
PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.
PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,426 to it, the largest being PUGWASH MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH (C$10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. has grown faster than half of the 186 protective health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 186 protective health care 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.
- Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Admiral Murray Naval Assoc. Bursary Fundlocalportfolio match
- The United Way of Pictou Countylocalportfolio 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 80% · 2018 65% · 2019 66% · 2020 47% · 2021 26% · 2022 75% · 2023 34% · 2024 49%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$840 → C$219.
From the CRA filings of PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.’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
PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 57% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
77% of PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.'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. 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.
- Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 14 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Admiral Murray Naval Assoc. Bursary Fundlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The United Way of Pictou Countylocalportfolio matchNS · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- E K M Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pembina-Manitou Area Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Battle River Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dauphin & District Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beautiful Plains Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shuswap Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bulkley Valley Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Prince George Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Portage and District 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 PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 49% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.
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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.?
- PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,426 to it, the largest being PUGWASH MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH (C$10,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$13,426 in grants to PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT., 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT.?
- PUGWASH MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCH is the largest funder on record, with C$10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like PUGWASH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT. find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nova Scotia.
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 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