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United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes

United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 70 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,843,547 to it, the largest being United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada (C$6,172,241). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$10M
Revenue FY2024
70
Funders on record
C$15M
Grants received
C$214k
Net assets
44/70 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes is better cushioned than half of the 362 foundations nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve12.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)8% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 362 foundations nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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 Revenue 100 (C$5.9M) Expenses 100 (C$5.9M) Net assets 0 (C$0)2018 Revenue 94 (C$5.6M) Expenses 94 (C$5.5M) Net assets 100 (C$1.1M)2019 Revenue 79 (C$4.7M) Expenses 80 (C$4.7M) Net assets 101 (C$1.1M)2020 2021 Revenue 160 (C$9.4M) Expenses 147 (C$8.7M) Net assets 28 (C$315k)2022 Revenue 83 (C$4.9M) Expenses 84 (C$4.9M) Net assets 27 (C$297k)2023 Revenue 88 (C$5.2M) Expenses 91 (C$5.3M) Net assets 8 (C$89k)2024 Revenue 174 (C$10M) Expenses 175 (C$10M) Net assets 19 (C$214k)
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Revenue (174)Expenses (175)Net assets (19)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 6% · 2021 49% · 2022 8% · 2023 1% · 2024 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

96% of United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (56% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 318 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.

C$33k
’17
C$25k
’18
−C$26k
’19
’20
C$781k
’21
−C$19k
’22
−C$100k
’23
C$33k
’24
13
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 26 funders to 36 funders, grant income rose C$684k → C$4.3M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$336k
C$250k
Hewitt Foundationunclassified
C$135k
C$102k
C$80k
C$78k
C$62k
Open Skyunclassified
C$59k
C$37k
O.E. Smith Trustunclassified
C$19k
C$16k
funders
26
29
31
30
31
25
36
37

Left out of every figure on this page: C$1.3M from one payer (the same organization on both sides, largest United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes). These are real filings, and they are not money United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes raised.

From the CRA filings of United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 funders by total. 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 Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes leans on a few funders — its largest provides 42% of grant income and the top three 73%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes.

42%
largest funder
73%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 72% · 2019 49% · 2020 69% · 2021 42% · 2022 49% · 2023 58% — 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.

How long its funders stay

59% of United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes draws 97% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 9 regions in all.

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

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Nova Scotia out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$201k 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 70 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.

Government revenue United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$4.2M
18
21
22
23
24
  • 40% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes

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

100% of spending goes to programs.

Program 100%Management 0%Fundraising 0%

Governance

7
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes?
United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 70 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$14,843,547 to it, the largest being United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada (C$6,172,241). 44 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 70 organizations giving C$14,843,547 in grants to United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes, 44 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes?
United Way of Canada - Centraide Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$6,172,241 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes 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 70 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