Nova Scotia · Registered charity
UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT
UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$325 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$237). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,881 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource 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.
- Lunenburg Fishermen's Foundation Inc.local
- The Marguerite Hubbard Charitable Foundationlocal
- Musique Royale a Treasury of Music From Our Historic Pastlocal
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: 2017 57% · 2018 61% · 2019 62% · 2020 58% · 2021 80% · 2022 65% · 2023 57% · 2024 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$40 → C$48.
From the CRA filings of UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT’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
UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 73% 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 UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 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
UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT draws 88% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 3 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.
- Lunenburg Fishermen's Foundation Inc.localNS · funds 12 organizations near you
- The Marguerite Hubbard Charitable FoundationlocalNS · funds 7 organizations near you
- Musique Royale a Treasury of Music From Our Historic PastlocalNS · funds 4 organizations near you
- St Matthews Lutheran CongregationlocalNS · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Rosewater Charitable FoundationlocalNS · funds 4 organizations near you
- United Way of Lunenburg CountylocalNS · funds 10 organizations near you
- The Three Churches FoundationlocalNS · funds 3 organizations near you
- The George W. Wilson and Teresa Madelyn (Merriam) Wilson FoundationlocalNS · funds 4 organizations near you
- Parish of St. James' ChurchlocalNS · funds 3 organizations near you
- The Sir Christopher Ondaatje Theatre FoundationlocalNS · funds 2 organizations near you
- Alexander Fleming Pattillo Memorial FoundationlocalNS · funds 2 organizations near you
- Zion's Lutheran ChurchlocalNS · funds 3 organizations near you
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 UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 98% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$325 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$237). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$325 in grants to UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$237 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED COMMUNITIES FIRE DEPARTMENT 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 3 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