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SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION

SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$168,136 to it, the largest being FONDATION ÉCHO /ECHO FOUNDATION (C$70,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$144k
Revenue FY2024
16
Funders on record
C$168k
Grants received
C$98k
Net assets
10/16 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%

Against its field

SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 7 as grant income climbed.

Revenue growth (annualized)2% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities 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

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$122k) Expenses 100 (C$146k) Net assets 100 (C$47k)2018 Revenue 138 (C$168k) Expenses 100 (C$145k) Net assets 148 (C$70k)2019 Revenue 111 (C$135k) Expenses 99 (C$144k) Net assets 147 (C$69k)2020 Revenue 128 (C$156k) Expenses 107 (C$157k) Net assets 162 (C$76k)2021 Revenue 52 (C$64k) Expenses 56 (C$82k)2022 Revenue 126 (C$153k) Expenses 89 (C$130k) Net assets 171 (C$81k)2023 Revenue 110 (C$134k) Net assets 146 (C$69k)2024 Revenue 118 (C$144k) Net assets 208 (C$98k)
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Revenue (118)Expenses (89)Net assets (208)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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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 41% · 2018 57% · 2019 45% · 2020 34% · 2021 58% · 2022 61% · 2023 43% · 2024 30%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

14% of SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (10% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,844 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$24k
’17
C$23k
’18
−C$9k
’19
−C$946
’20
−C$18k
’21
C$23k
’22
’23
’24
4.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$23k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
The McLean Foundationunclassified
C$25k
The McCain Foundationunclassified
C$5k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$2k
Small Change Fundunclassified
C$50
funders
6
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5
6
5
7
7
8

From the CRA filings of SACKVILLE RIVERS 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

SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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 SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION.

42%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 30% · 2019 51% · 2020 59% · 2021 64% · 2022 72% · 2023 66% — 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.

How long its funders stay

14% of SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION draws 94% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 5 regions in all.

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

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Nova Scotia out of province

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.

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 16 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 SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION reports

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

FY2024C$43k
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  • 30% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like SACKVILLE RIVERS 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

St. Mary's River Association78%Margaree Salmon Association72%Nova Scotia Salmon Association70%The Clean Annapolis River Society70%Sackville Lakes Park and Trails Association69%The Seagull Foundation68%St. Margaret's Bay Stewardship Association67%Friends of Sable Island Society67%

Nationally

St. Mary's River Association78%The Hillsborough River Association Inc.77%Squamish River Watershed Society75%Sault Ste. Marie Region Conservation Authority75%Hammond River Angling Association Inc.75%The Rideau Valley Conservation Foundation74%Nsa Charitable Fund Inc.74%Peninsula Streams Society72%
04Profile & governance

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

Governance

13
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION?
SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$168,136 to it, the largest being FONDATION ÉCHO /ECHO FOUNDATION (C$70,000). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 16 organizations giving C$168,136 in grants to SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION?
FONDATION ÉCHO /ECHO FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$70,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SACKVILLE RIVERS ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nova Scotia.

Play a game about who funds Sackville Rivers Association →

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 16 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