Nova Scotia · Registered charity
THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY
THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$340 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$240). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,442 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,442 community resource nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- The W. B. Wells Heritage Foundationlocalportfolio match
- St. Andrew's Presbyterian Churchshared funders
- The Alix and Robert Jickling 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: 2021 33% · 2023 72% · 2024 33%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (60% 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
2020 → 2021: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$100 → C$240.
From the CRA filings of THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY’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
THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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
THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 2 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.
- The W. B. Wells Heritage Foundationlocalportfolio matchNS · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- St. Andrew's Presbyterian Churchshared fundersNS · backs 2 organizations that share your funders
- The Alix and Robert Jickling Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canada Donates Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Treherne and Area Donor's Choiceportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beatty Family Charitable Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mount Zion Presbyterian Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Zion United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Howard J. Rees Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Chatham Kent Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Trenton Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brian Todd Memorial Community Fundportfolio 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 THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 33% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY?
- THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$340 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$240). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$340 in grants to THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$240 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MIDDLE RIVER - BIRCH HILL CEMETERY 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 2 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