Nova Scotia · Registered charity
Women of the First Light
Women of the First Light (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$121,154 to it, the largest being THE CATHERINE DONNELLY FOUNDATION (C$34,992). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Women of the First Light 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.
- Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital Foundationlocal
- Future Generations Foundation / la Fondation Des Generationsà Venirportfolio match
- The National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canadaportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2023, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2023, 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: 2023 68% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of Women of the First Light’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. 1 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the CRA filings of Women of the First Light’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
Women of the First Light leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 Women of the First Light.
“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
Women of the First Light draws 73% of its grant income from funders outside Nova Scotia, across 3 regions in all.
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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital FoundationlocalNS · funds 14 organizations near you
- Future Generations Foundation / la Fondation Des Generationsà Venirportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indigenous Reconciliation Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Makeway Charitable Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Healthy Horizons Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inspirit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Makeway Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ecojustice Canada Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cj Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dragonfly Fundportfolio 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 Women of the First Light reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 48% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Women of the First Light
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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Questions and answers
- Who funds Women of the First Light?
- Women of the First Light (Nova Scotia) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$121,154 to it, the largest being THE CATHERINE DONNELLY FOUNDATION (C$34,992). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Women of the First Light have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$121,154 in grants to Women of the First Light, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Women of the First Light?
- THE CATHERINE DONNELLY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$34,992 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Women of the First Light 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 2023–2024), and the filings of 5 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