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THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY

THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 132 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$70,266,299 to it, the largest being Fondation Amelia & Lino Saputo Amelia & Lino Saputo Founda tion (C$17,311,108). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$164M
Revenue FY2024
132
Funders on record
C$70M
Grants received
C$193M
Net assets
86/132 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 13%

Against its field

THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY is better cushioned than half of the 220 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−1% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve3.5mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)2% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 220 teaching institutions nonprofits over $100M, 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$141M) Expenses 100 (C$122M) Net assets 100 (C$123M)2018 Revenue 104 (C$147M) Expenses 104 (C$127M) Net assets 96 (C$118M)2019 Revenue 106 (C$150M) Expenses 112 (C$137M) Net assets 98 (C$120M)2020 Revenue 106 (C$149M) Expenses 113 (C$138M) Net assets 84 (C$103M)2021 Revenue 106 (C$149M) Expenses 108 (C$133M) Net assets 118 (C$145M)2022 Revenue 115 (C$162M) Expenses 120 (C$147M) Net assets 134 (C$165M)2023 Revenue 121 (C$171M) Expenses 142 (C$174M) Net assets 138 (C$169M)2024 Revenue 116 (C$164M) Expenses 136 (C$166M) Net assets 158 (C$193M)
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Revenue (116)Expenses (136)Net assets (158)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 31% · 2018 30% · 2019 34% · 2020 34% · 2021 35% · 2022 32% · 2023 32% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

25% of THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 208 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$19M
’17
C$20M
’18
C$13M
’19
C$11M
’20
C$16M
’21
C$15M
’22
−C$2.9M
’23
−C$2.2M
’24
3.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 64 funders to 67 funders, grant income fell C$10M → C$9.0M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
The Joyce Family Foundationunclassified
C$6.0M
Comart Foundationunclassified
C$5.7M
Aqueduct Foundationunclassified
C$3.0M
Wcpd Foundationunclassified
C$1000k
The Sixty Three Foundationunclassified
C$800k
River Philip Foundationunclassified
C$755k
Actuaidentity?
C$688k
Mastercard Foundationunclassified
C$528k
The Rogers Foundationunclassified
C$400k
D.R. Sobey Foundationunclassified
C$375k
Harrison McCain Foundationunclassified
C$308k
funders
64
65
55
50
55
63
67
60

From the CRA filings of THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 132 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

THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY.

25%
largest funder
43%
top three
~10
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 55% · 2019 19% · 2020 25% · 2021 19% · 2022 35% · 2023 29% — 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

52% of THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY'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

THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 7 regions in all.

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$1.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 132 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 THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY reports

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

FY2024C$57M
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  • 35% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY

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

Mount Saint Vincent University62%Society of the Sacred Heart (Canada) /Societe Du Sacre-Coeur(Canada)61%Wellspring Centre Fund60%Diocesan Franciscan Society58%The Trustees of Pictou Academy Educational Foundation57%Pine Hill Divinity Hall57%Franciscans of Halifax Society57%Cape Breton Christian Education and Service Association56%

Nationally

The Board of Governors of Grant MacEwan University68%La Xavière Au Canada67%The Governors of the University of Alberta66%The Governing Council of the University of Toronto66%Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology65%St-Francis Xavier Mission64%The Governors of the University of Calgary64%Bishop's University64%
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 13%Fundraising 2%

Governance

33
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY?
THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 132 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$70,266,299 to it, the largest being Fondation Amelia & Lino Saputo Amelia & Lino Saputo Founda tion (C$17,311,108). 86 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 132 organizations giving C$70,266,299 in grants to THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY, 86 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY?
Fondation Amelia & Lino Saputo Amelia & Lino Saputo Founda tion is the largest funder on record, with C$17,311,108 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE GOVERNORS OF ST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY 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 132 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