Nova Scotia · Registered charity
SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION
SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$7,940 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$5,640). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,067 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,067 foundations 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.
- Craig Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Spatz Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2019, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2019, 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.
96% of SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income rose C$540 → C$2k.
From the CRA filings of SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION’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
SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 56% · 2021 70% · 2022 38% · 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
SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION draws 100% 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. C$500 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.
- Craig Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Spatz Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The David and Faye Sobey Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- John C. Kerr Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William and Jean Teron Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Perlin Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Shen Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Prytula/Charpentier Foundation / Fondation Prytula/Charpentierportfolio 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 SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 0% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION
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 SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION?
- SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$7,940 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$5,640). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$7,940 in grants to SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$5,640 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SCOTIA FESTIVAL OF MUSIC FOUNDATION 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 2019–2023), and the filings of 5 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