Nova Scotia · Registered charity
SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY
SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$564,103 to it, the largest being J and W Murphy Foundation (C$210,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 1,067 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts 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.
- Black Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The David and Faye Sobey Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Craig Foundationshared fundersportfolio 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2019 36% · 2020 42% · 2021 47% · 2022 29% · 2023 19% · 2024 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
52% of SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$10k → C$232k.
From the CRA filings of SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY’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
SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 37% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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 SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 66% · 2023 65% — diversifying over time.
“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
72% of SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY's grant income comes from Nova Scotia funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$25k 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. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 225 organizations that share them.
- Black Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The David and Faye Sobey Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Craig Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 28 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- River Philip Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 79 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Societyshared fundersportfolio matchNS · backs 89 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- William L. Pearman Charitable FoundationlocalNS · funds 8 organizations near you
- Port Dover / Woodhouse & District Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hawthorne Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Robert Pope Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gill Ratcliffe Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- E K M Health FoundationlocalNS · funds 11 organizations near you
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 SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 18% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY
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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY?
- SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$564,103 to it, the largest being J and W Murphy Foundation (C$210,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 10 organizations giving C$564,103 in grants to SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY?
- J and W Murphy Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SLOW MOTION FOOD FILM FEST SOCIETY 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 2019–2024), 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