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RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA

RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$184,735 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (C$100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$299k
Revenue FY2024
10
Funders on record
C$185k
Grants received
C$194k
Net assets
2/10 repeat funders

Against its field

RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,881 community resource nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−11% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.7mo · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'23
'24*
total
funders
3
9

From the CRA filings of RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA’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

RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 84%; 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 RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA.

54%
largest funder
84%
top three
~3
effective funders

“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

54% of RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$85k that is directly attributable, 68% of it comes from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 4 regions.

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$100k 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 10 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 RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA reports

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

FY2024C$122k
  • 41% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA

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

Health Equity Alliance of Nova Scotia69%Halifax Refugee Clinic Association69%Isans. Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia67%RefugePoint Canada67%Settlement in Antigonish for Families From Everywhere Society66%Halifax Transition House Association65%Society of Atlantic Heroes Recovery and Reintegration65%Regional Independent Students Association65%

Nationally

Rainbow Refugee Society76%Rainbow Railroad74%Haven Refugees73%Canadian Council For Refugees/Conseil canadien pour les refugiés71%Centre for Newcomers Society of Calgary71%New Brunswick Refugee Foundation Inc. / Fondation des réfugiés du Nouveau-Brunswick Inc.70%Richmond Multicultural Community Services Society70%Immigrant & Refugee Services Association Pei Inc.70%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 4%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA?
RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$184,735 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (C$100,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 10 organizations giving C$184,735 in grants to RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with C$100,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like RAINBOW REFUGEE ASSOCIATION OF NOVA SCOTIA 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 2024–2024), and the filings of 10 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