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The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation

The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$17,958,438 to it, the largest being Mastercard Foundation (C$15,196,512). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$5.3M
Revenue FY2024
18
Funders on record
C$18M
Grants received
C$224k
Net assets
10/18 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,601 foundations nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve9.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)114% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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 2018 2019 Revenue 100 (C$118k) Expenses 100 (C$119k) Net assets 100 (C$3k)2020 Revenue 927 (C$1.1M) Expenses 884 (C$1.0M) Net assets 1384 (C$48k)2021 Revenue 2189 (C$2.6M) Expenses 2155 (C$2.6M) Net assets 2229 (C$78k)2022 Revenue 2432 (C$2.9M) Expenses 2403 (C$2.8M) Net assets 2870 (C$100k)2023 Revenue 3181 (C$3.8M) Expenses 4551 (C$5.4M) Net assets 3786 (C$132k)2024 Revenue 4468 (C$5.3M) Expenses 4372 (C$5.2M) Net assets 6400 (C$224k)
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Revenue (4468)Expenses (4372)Net assets (6400)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.

2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,335 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

’17
’18
−C$485
’19
C$46k
’20
C$30k
’21
C$22k
’22
−C$1.6M
’23
C$91k
’24
9.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose C$180k → C$5.9M.

From the CRA filings of The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities 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 Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 85% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation.

85%
largest funder
96%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 77% · 2020 83% · 2021 95% · 2022 85% · 2023 97% — 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 The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y

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

The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 6 regions in all.

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

’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nova Scotia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$765k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 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 18 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.

Organizations like The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

86% of spending goes to programs.

Program 86%Management 14%Fundraising 0%

Governance

10
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation?
The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 18 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$17,958,438 to it, the largest being Mastercard Foundation (C$15,196,512). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 18 organizations giving C$17,958,438 in grants to The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation?
Mastercard Foundation is the largest funder on record, with C$15,196,512 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like The Ulnooweg Indigenous Communities Foundation 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 2019–2024), and the filings of 18 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