Nova Scotia · Registered charity
SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,357 to it, the largest being ATCO ELECTRIC EPIC (C$1,040). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource 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.
- Children's Hospital Aid Societyshared funders
- The Christofor Foundation Inc.portfolio match
- The J T Clark Family Foundation Incportfolio 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: 2017 61% · 2018 99% · 2019 54% · 2020 19% · 2021 60% · 2022 61% · 2023 63% · 2024 44%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$110 → C$260.
From the CRA filings of SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT’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
SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 77% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 71% · 2022 90% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT draws 84% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 3 regions in all.
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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Children's Hospital Aid Societyshared fundersAB · backs 21 organizations that share your funders
- The Christofor Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The J T Clark Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wesley and Patricia Armour Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Faye and David Huestis Family Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Admiral Murray Naval Assoc. Bursary Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sir James Dunn Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Homeless Foundationshared fundersAB · backs 15 organizations that share your funders
- Brewer Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way/Centraide (Central N.B./Region Du Centre du N.B.)Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sussex Area Community Foundation Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 44% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
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 SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,357 to it, the largest being ATCO ELECTRIC EPIC (C$1,040). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$1,357 in grants to SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- ATCO ELECTRIC EPIC is the largest funder on record, with C$1,040 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SYDNEY RIVER VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 4 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