Aberdeen Health Foundation Society
Public foundation · New Glasgow, Nova Scotia · BN 857641153RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,134,549) as filed with the CRA.
Aberdeen Health Foundation Society is a public foundation based in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.9M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $72K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 70% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 13 qualified donees totalling $2.7M in 2024, the largest being $2.1M to Nova Scotia Health Authority (nsha). Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
The aberdeen health foundation society's objective is to provide programs that will support the delivery of health care within pictou county nova scotia.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.9M | $3.1M | $256K | — | $2.7M | $74.1M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $2.6M | $258K | — | $2.2M | $66.4M |
| 2022 | $8.8M | $2.5M | $245K | — | $2.1M | $63.8M |
| 2021 | $10.4M | $1.8M | $99K | — | $1.6M | $66.7M |
| 2020 | $5M | $1.4M | $76K | — | $1.2M | $49.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.7M to 13 qualified donees:
- Nova Scotia Health Authority (nsha)$2.1M
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada - Nova Scotia Branch$138K
- Kids First Association$125K
- Dalhousie University$100K
- Ladies Auxiliary to the Aberdeen Hospital$51K
- Citizens for a Healthy Pictou County (c/o Town of NG)$50K
- Pictou County Palliative CARE Society$46K
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Pictou County$26K
- Pictou County Roots for Youth Society$25K
- YMCA of Pictou County$12K
- Chignecto-Central Regional Centre for Education$5,000
- Highland Community Residential Services$5,000
- Pictou County Council of Senior Citizens$1,600
Received $72K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$168K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kimberly Bryne (director); Heather Macdonald (vice chair); Patricia Craig (director); Lisa Macdonald (chair); Harry Munro (director); Chakshu Sharma (director); Ashley Harrison (director); Frank Sobey (director); Clinton Keay (director); Marsha Sobey (secretary); Kim Livingston (treasurer); Donald Macgillvray (director); Marcel Deveau (director); Stephen Leslie (director); Ryan Sharpe (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Aberdeen Health Foundation Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857641153RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.