Ardoise Community Recreation Centre
Publicly funded institution · Ellershouse, Nova Scotia · BN 889046595RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($117,387) as filed with the CRA.
Ardoise Community Recreation Centre is a charitable organization based in Ellershouse, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $120K in revenue and $117K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 59% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2021, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $25.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $41K in 2020 to $120K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Community hall programs & rentals promotion & protection of health; senior's services; community outreach support community news bulletin (postal mail)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $120K | $117K | $93K | — | $0 | $74K |
| 2023 | $57K | $53K | $35K | — | $0 | $72K |
| 2022 | $93K | $83K | $48K | — | — | $68K |
| 2021 | $82K | $75K | $69K | — | — | $58K |
| 2020 | $41K | $31K | $24K | — | — | $51K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $25 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mary Smith (treasurer); David Joyce (director); Susan Wright (chair); David Barkhouse (director); Jill Poole (vice chair); Carol Hindle (secretary); Kevin Hindle (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ardoise Community Recreation Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889046595RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.