Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 106705379RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,414,122) as filed with the CRA.
Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under core health care. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.8M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 60% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 32 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $546K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 39 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $236K in 2024, the largest being $221K to Alzheimer Society of Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.5M in 2020 to $3.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The alzeimer society of nova scotia provides support education and information programs. These include telephone support print resources workshops support groups and an annual conference. We also offer regular digital and print newsletters as wellas a website to deliver information and news related to dementia. The society funds and promotes dementia research bothprovincially and nationally. The society also has a role in developing and implementing a demintia strategy through dementianetwork alzheimer federation and committee work.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $3.4M | $2.5M | $668K | $236K | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $2.8M | $2.8M | $2M | $605K | $228K | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $1.9M | $563K | $270K | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $1.8M | $1.3M | $334K | $10K | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.3M | $1.5M | $503K | $96K | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $236K to 2 qualified donees:
- Alzheimer Society of Canada$221K
- Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation - Maritime Brain Tiees$15K
Received $546K from 32 charities:
- Alzheimer Society of Canada$236K
- Canada Gives$149K
- The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$20K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$11K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- The Spatz Foundation$10K
- River Philip Foundation$10K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$5,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$5,000
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$4,613
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,223
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,250
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,140
- Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent$1,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$912
- R.C. MacGillivray Guest Home Foundation$801
- Bayshore Foundation for Empowered Living$720
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia$500
- 14 Wing Combined Charities$500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$470
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions39
- Total compensation, all staff$2.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chris Trenaman (treasurer); Alex Stewart (nomination committee); Faye Forbes (board member); Melissa Andrew (board member); Rob Pulling (board member); Sean Bradley (finance& audit committee); Vanessa Nevin (board member); Karen Nicholls (policy committee); Lindsay Cross (president); Kerrie Voady (nominations committee); Debra Boudreau (board member); Mark Inglis (vice chair); Ian Bezanson (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alzheimer Society of Nova Scotia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106705379RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.