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STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION

STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$788,081 to it, the largest being CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION / FONDATION CANADIENNE DES FEMMES (C$245,393). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$1.2M
Revenue FY2024
17
Funders on record
C$788k
Grants received
C$0
Net assets
11/17 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 42%

Against its field

STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve0.4mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)28% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty 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$211k) Expenses 100 (C$351k) Net assets 100 (C$65k)2018 Revenue 199 (C$421k) Expenses 140 (C$491k) Net assets -5 (C$-3333)2019 Revenue 217 (C$459k) Expenses 123 (C$431k) Net assets 39 (C$25k)2020 Revenue 188 (C$398k) Expenses 115 (C$402k) Net assets 32 (C$21k)2021 Revenue 196 (C$415k) Expenses 95 (C$332k) Net assets 161 (C$104k)2022 Revenue 260 (C$549k) Expenses 147 (C$515k) Net assets 214 (C$138k)2023 Revenue 369 (C$779k) Expenses 205 (C$720k) Net assets 0 (C$0)2024 Revenue 571 (C$1.2M) Expenses 356 (C$1.2M) Net assets 0 (C$0)
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Revenue (571)Expenses (356)Net assets (0)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.

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2018
2019
2020
2021
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2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 37% · 2018 70% · 2019 72% · 2020 74% · 2021 69% · 2022 62% · 2023 97% · 2024 99%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

100% of STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,313 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$139k
’17
−C$69k
’18
C$29k
’19
−C$5k
’20
C$83k
’21
C$34k
’22
C$60k
’23
−C$43k
’24
0.4
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose C$89k → C$240k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
The Northpine Foundationunclassified
C$100k
Halifax Youth Foundationunclassified
C$70k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$12k
Right To Foodunclassified
C$10k
Grace United Churchunclassified
C$2k
funders
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9
7

From the CRA filings of STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION’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

STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 66%; 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 STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION.

31%
largest funder
66%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 49% · 2019 61% · 2020 66% · 2021 36% · 2022 49% · 2023 59% — 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.

How long its funders stay

42% of STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION'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

STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION draws 53% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 3 regions in all.

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

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’23
Nova Scotia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$76k 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.

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 17 funders put you under-funded 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 STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION reports

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

FY2024C$1.2M
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  • 99% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION

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

South Shore Transition House Association70%Chrysalis House Association68%Saint Leonard's Society of Nova Scotia66%7th Step Society of Nova Scotia (2019)66%Leeside Society66%Souls Harbour Rescue Mission65%Colchester Sexual Assault Centre65%Antigonish Women's Resource Centre and Sexual Assault Services Association64%

Nationally

Stepping Stones Crisis Society78%Street Worker's Advocacy Project Regina Inc.76%Stepping Stones Recovery House for Women Society76%Stepping Stone Community Services Society74%Wish Drop-In Centre Society72%Ask Wellness Society72%Stepping Stones Foundation71%Surrey Women's Centre Society71%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

20% of spending goes to programs.

Program 20%Management 80%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION?
STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$788,081 to it, the largest being CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION / FONDATION CANADIENNE DES FEMMES (C$245,393). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 17 organizations giving C$788,081 in grants to STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION?
CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION / FONDATION CANADIENNE DES FEMMES is the largest funder on record, with C$245,393 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like STEPPING STONE ASSOCIATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Nova Scotia.

Play a game about who funds Stepping Stone Association →

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 17 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