Nova Scotia · Registered charity
ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION
ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$666,919 to it, the largest being THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION OF HALIFAX (C$517,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 110 foundations advancing religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 110 foundations advancing religion 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.
- Craig Foundationlocal
- O.E. Smith Trustportfolio match
- St. John's Archdiocese Inc.portfolio match
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.
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: 2020 29% · 2024 36%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (42% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose C$47 → C$525k.
From the CRA filings of ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 8 of 10 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
ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2019 89% · 2021 45% · 2022 79% · 2023 98% — broadly stable.
“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
20% of ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.
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
96% of ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION'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. 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 400 organizations that share them.
- Craig FoundationlocalNS · funds 11 organizations near you
- O.E. Smith Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St. John's Archdiocese Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roman Catholic Bishop of Saint Johnportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ex Corde Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- NAEL Family Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Anglican Parish of Eastern Passageportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Madonna Houseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carmelite Nuns of Western Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Diocese of Saskatoon Catholic Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation for the Diocese of Peterboroughportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Family FoundationlocalNS · funds 8 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 ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 36% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA 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
98% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION?
- ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$666,919 to it, the largest being THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION OF HALIFAX (C$517,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 10 organizations giving C$666,919 in grants to ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA FOUNDATION?
- THE ROMAN CATHOLIC EPISCOPAL CORPORATION OF HALIFAX is the largest funder on record, with C$517,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ST. MARY'S CATHEDRAL BASILICA 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 2017–2024), 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