Nova Scotia · Registered charity
THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$44,839 to it, the largest being THE DAVID AND FAYE SOBEY FOUNDATION (C$25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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.
- Craig Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Flemming Charitable Foundationlocal
- Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundationshared funderslocal
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.
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 10% · 2018 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2019: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$38k → C$1k.
From the CRA filings of THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA’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 NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA leans on a few funders — its largest provides 56% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 65% · 2018 54% · 2019 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
89% of THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA'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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 90 organizations that share them.
- Craig Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchNS · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · funds 7 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Flemming Charitable FoundationlocalNS · funds 6 organizations near you
- Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundationshared funderslocalNS · backs 12 organizations that share your funders · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Mary-Margaret Webb Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Music Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Martha Lou Henley Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Perlin Family Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J and W Murphy Foundationshared funderslocalNS · backs 27 organizations that share your funders · funds 6 organizations near you
- Lloyd Carr-Harris Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio 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 NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 7% of FY2018 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA?
- THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$44,839 to it, the largest being THE DAVID AND FAYE SOBEY FOUNDATION (C$25,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$44,839 in grants to THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA?
- THE DAVID AND FAYE SOBEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$25,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE NOVA SCOTIA YOUTH ORCHESTRA 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 FY2018 (financials across 2017–2018), and the filings of 6 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