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COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY

COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,631,861 to it, the largest being Right To Food (C$660,650). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$941k
Revenue FY2024
38
Funders on record
C$1.6M
Grants received
C$1.3M
Net assets
22/38 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin14% · above the median
Months of reserve10.7mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)25% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.

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$198k) Expenses 100 (C$209k) Net assets 100 (C$260k)2018 Revenue 183 (C$363k) Expenses 99 (C$207k) Net assets 159 (C$414k)2019 Revenue 204 (C$405k) Expenses 151 (C$315k) Net assets 193 (C$502k)2020 Revenue 265 (C$525k) Expenses 146 (C$304k) Net assets 277 (C$721k)2021 Revenue 176 (C$349k) Expenses 155 (C$323k) Net assets 285 (C$741k)2022 Revenue 388 (C$769k) Expenses 219 (C$457k) Net assets 405 (C$1.1M)2023 Revenue 309 (C$611k) Expenses 291 (C$607k) Net assets 407 (C$1.1M)2024 Revenue 475 (C$941k) Expenses 387 (C$808k) Net assets 485 (C$1.3M)
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Revenue (475)Expenses (387)Net assets (485)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 21% · 2019 16% · 2020 4% · 2021 4% · 2022 2% · 2023 14% · 2024 27%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

98% of COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 3,865 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$11k
’17
C$155k
’18
C$89k
’19
C$220k
’20
C$26k
’21
C$312k
’22
C$4k
’23
C$133k
’24
11
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 19 funders, grant income rose C$8k → C$705k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Right To Foodidentity?
C$661k
C$505k
C$11k
C$9k
C$3k
C$750
C$740
United Way Niagaraunclassified
C$509
funders
5
9
11
15
22
17
19
20

From the CRA filings of COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 38 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

COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY.

40%
largest funder
87%
top three
~3
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 32% · 2018 54% · 2019 36% · 2020 78% · 2021 32% · 2022 35% · 2023 78% — 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

71% of COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 58% 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

COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY draws 91% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 4 regions in all.

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

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’21
’22
’23
Nova Scotia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$31k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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 38 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 COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY reports

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

FY2024C$255k
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  • 27% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

97% of spending goes to programs.

Program 97%Management 3%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY?
COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 38 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,631,861 to it, the largest being Right To Food (C$660,650). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 38 organizations giving C$1,631,861 in grants to COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY?
Right To Food is the largest funder on record, with C$660,650 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like COLCHESTER COMMUNITY SUPPORT SOCIETY 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 Colchester Community Support Society →

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 38 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