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SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA

SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 54 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$7,051,225 to it, the largest being J and W Murphy Foundation (C$5,234,056). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$8.5M
Revenue FY2024
54
Funders on record
C$7.1M
Grants received
C$2.6M
Net assets
35/54 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.

Operating margin9% · top quartile
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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$3.6M) Expenses 100 (C$3.7M) Net assets 100 (C$1.3M)2018 Revenue 119 (C$4.3M) Expenses 114 (C$4.2M) Net assets 112 (C$1.4M)2019 Revenue 137 (C$4.9M) Expenses 129 (C$4.7M) Net assets 127 (C$1.6M)2020 Revenue 144 (C$5.2M) Expenses 141 (C$5.2M) Net assets 127 (C$1.6M)2021 Revenue 156 (C$5.6M) Expenses 141 (C$5.2M) Net assets 161 (C$2.0M)2022 Revenue 157 (C$5.7M) Expenses 158 (C$5.8M) Net assets 151 (C$1.9M)2023 Revenue 192 (C$6.9M) Expenses 192 (C$7.0M) Net assets 5365 (C$68M)2024 Revenue 235 (C$8.5M) Expenses 211 (C$7.7M) Net assets 207 (C$2.6M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (235)Expenses (211)Net assets (207)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 76% · 2018 74% · 2019 73% · 2020 72% · 2021 67% · 2022 70% · 2023 71% · 2024 73%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

35% of SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 849 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$59k
’17
C$123k
’18
C$185k
’19
C$12k
’20
C$432k
’21
−C$130k
’22
−C$91k
’23
C$758k
’24
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 24 funders, grant income rose C$36k → C$278k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$5.2M
C$662k
C$250k
Foundation 2020unclassified
C$100k
C$51k
C$36k
C$29k
Halifax Foundationunclassified
C$16k
C$11k
C$7k
C$5k
C$5k
funders
12
16
18
20
29
26
24
26

From the CRA filings of SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 54 funders by total. 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

SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA.

74%
largest funder
87%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 68% · 2019 26% · 2020 70% · 2021 37% · 2022 38% · 2023 45% — 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

48% of SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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

82% of SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA's grant income comes from Nova Scotia funders.

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

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nova Scotia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$134k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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 54 funders put you typical 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 SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA reports

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

FY2024C$6.2M
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  • 73% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY 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

Nationally

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 16%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA?
SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 54 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$7,051,225 to it, the largest being J and W Murphy Foundation (C$5,234,056). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 54 organizations giving C$7,051,225 in grants to SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA?
J and W Murphy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$5,234,056 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SAINT LEONARD'S SOCIETY 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 54 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