Nova Scotia · Registered charity
Rural Water Watch
Rural Water Watch (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 1 organization whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,850 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (C$1,850). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
Rural Water Watch has grown faster than half of the 617 educational orgs n.e.c. nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 617 educational orgs n.e.c. 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.
- St. Andrew's Presbyterian Churchlocal
- Small Change Fundportfolio match
- Rural Communities Foundation of Nova Scotiaportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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: 2020 46%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Rural Water Watch’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. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
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 Rural Water Watch’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.
Where its funders are
100% of Rural Water Watch'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. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$2k 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.
- St. Andrew's Presbyterian ChurchlocalNS · funds 3 organizations near you
- Small Change Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rural Communities Foundation of Nova Scotiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alberta Ecotrust Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Evergreenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Makeway Charitable Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Conservation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nature Canada / Canada Natureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Td Friends of the Environment Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Green Communities Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Chawkers foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Adaportfolio 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 Rural Water Watch reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 46% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Rural Water Watch
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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Rural Water Watch?
- Rural Water Watch (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 1 organization whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,850 to it, the largest being THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY (C$1,850). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does Rural Water Watch have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 1 organization giving C$1,850 in grants to Rural Water Watch.
- Who is the largest funder of Rural Water Watch?
- THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with C$1,850 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Rural Water Watch 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 1 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