Nova Scotia · Registered charity
CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION
CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,687,778 to it, the largest being Green Municipal Fund (C$1,445,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$33M
- Funders on record
- 12
- Grants received
- C$1.7M
- Net assets
- C$6.5M
What Clean Nova Scotia Foundation does
Ongoing programs
Clean provides the knowledge tools and inspiration to encourage individual actions that sum to a positive environmental shift. Through partnerships & collaboration clean educates and supports intiatives that foster leaders to strive for clean clima through partnerships & collaboration clean educates and supports intiatives that foster leaders to strive for clean climate and clean water. Programs include homewarming envior-ed clean climate school hea cef coastal restoration workforce development tree planting next ride fn solar feasibility study bipoc energy training. Electronic vehicle rebates and ea training program cbrm regional housing retrofits
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from C$23M to C$41M (+79%).
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 14% · 2018 21% · 2019 35% · 2020 45% · 2021 94% · 2022 78% · 2023 59% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose C$16k → C$1.5M.
From the CRA filings of CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA 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
CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 86% of grant income and the top three 95%; 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 CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 87% · 2019 53% · 2020 54% · 2021 48% · 2022 66% · 2023 99% — 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
33% of CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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
CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 4 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.
Against its field
CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 145 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 145 community resource nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2024
Government revenue CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 65% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION?
- CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 12 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,687,778 to it, the largest being Green Municipal Fund (C$1,445,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 12 organizations giving C$1,687,778 in grants to CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION?
- Green Municipal Fund is the largest funder on record, with C$1,445,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CLEAN NOVA SCOTIA FOUNDATION 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 12 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register