Nova Scotia · Registered charity
THE TEMA FOUNDATION
THE TEMA FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$733,868 to it, the largest being MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA (C$571,224). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE TEMA FOUNDATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,075 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,075 support of schools and education 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.
- Flemming Charitable Foundationlocal
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio match
- R.R. Smith Memorial Fund Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
15% of THE TEMA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (40% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell C$518k → C$20k.
From the CRA filings of THE TEMA 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
THE TEMA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 TEMA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 92% · 2022 59% · 2023 46% — diversifying over time.
“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
88% of THE TEMA FOUNDATION'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. C$2k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region 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.
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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Flemming Charitable FoundationlocalNS · funds 6 organizations near you
- Yunnan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R.R. Smith Memorial Fund Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Change for Children Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Jacobson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Timothy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Triercon Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- B.O.L.T. Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cadence Cares Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peterborough K. M. Hunter Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundationportfolio 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.
Organizations like THE TEMA 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
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE TEMA FOUNDATION?
- THE TEMA FOUNDATION (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$733,868 to it, the largest being MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA (C$571,224). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE TEMA FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 16 organizations giving C$733,868 in grants to THE TEMA FOUNDATION, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE TEMA FOUNDATION?
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION OF NOVA SCOTIA is the largest funder on record, with C$571,224 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE TEMA 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 2020–2024), and the filings of 16 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