Nova Scotia · Registered charity
STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION
STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$920,365 to it, the largest being STEPS ON ARTHUR SOCIETY (C$620,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 2,747 foundations nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,747 foundations 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.
- John Calvin Christian Reformed Churchlocal
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio match
- The Judith & Norman Alix Foundationportfolio 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: 2023 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
92% of STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income fell C$51k → C$48k.
From the CRA filings of STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION’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
STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 81% · 2019 92% · 2020 91% · 2021 38% · 2022 59% · 2023 73% — 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
50% of STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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
81% of STEPS ON ARTHUR 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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- John Calvin Christian Reformed ChurchlocalNS · funds 6 organizations near you
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Judith & Norman Alix Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Milan & Maureen Ilich Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Salden Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Odette Kaye Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Centre Hastings Community Support and Education Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Royal Canadian Legion Ontario Provincial Command Branches and Ladies' Auxiliaries Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stratford and Perth County Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Masonic Foundation of Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Maxwell and Ruth Leroy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Colchester CountylocalNS · funds 21 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 STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like STEPS ON ARTHUR 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 STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION?
- STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$920,365 to it, the largest being STEPS ON ARTHUR SOCIETY (C$620,500). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 16 organizations giving C$920,365 in grants to STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STEPS ON ARTHUR FOUNDATION?
- STEPS ON ARTHUR SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with C$620,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STEPS ON ARTHUR 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 16 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