Antigonish Community Transit Society
Publicly funded institution · Antigonish, Nova Scotia · BN 834224032RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($525,098) as filed with the CRA.
Antigonish Community Transit Society is a charitable organization based in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $525K in revenue and $525K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $481.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $337K in 2021 to $525K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The sole purpose of Antigonish Community Transit is to provide affordable accessible efficient and effective transit services to the town and county of Antigonish Nova Scotia. ACTS employs a General Manager dispatcher and full and part-time drivers to carry out this service. We operate a fixed bus route around the town of Antigonish which runs daily from 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday. The fixed route allows clients to access the major shopping areas and grocery stores in the town the downtown area for Doctors appointments shopping and banking access to the town library and many othe…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $525K | $525K | $513K | — | — | $156K |
| 2023 | $483K | $467K | $448K | — | — | $155K |
| 2022 | $339K | $325K | $321K | — | — | $144K |
| 2021 | $337K | $228K | $153K | — | — | $114K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $481 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$318K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Keith Leslie (vice chair); Leroy Maceachern (director); Gary Mattie (director); Diane Roberts (director); Anita Stewart (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Antigonish Community Transit Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 834224032RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.