Atlantic Coastal Action Program (acap) Saint John Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Saint John, New Brunswick · BN 135979722RR0001 · Environment · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($808,156) as filed with the CRA.
Atlantic Coastal Action Program (acap) Saint John Inc. is a charitable organization based in Saint John, New Brunswick, classified by the CRA under environment. 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 $840K in revenue and $808K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% from government, 20% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $130K.
Compared with 83 environmental institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
To support and guide public and private organizations and individual citizens on the planning and provision of a comprehensive environmental improvement program incorporating information components commensurate with environmental and community needs in the territory encompassed by the saint john estuary.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $840K | $808K | $731K | — | — | $202K |
| 2023 | $663K | $654K | $586K | — | — | $194K |
| 2022 | $862K | $846K | $787K | — | — | $160K |
| 2021 | $865K | $835K | $777K | — | — | $144K |
| 2020 | $657K | $666K | $629K | — | — | $114K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $130K from 9 charities:
- Green Communities Canada$48K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$31K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$19K
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial pour la Nature Can Ada$12K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$7,500
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$7,000
- Nature Canada / Canada Nature$5,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$295
- Canadahelps Canadon$106
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$397K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anne Bardou (president); Angela Dick (director); Leah Fitzgerald (secretary); Allan Gates (director); Ben Sweet (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Atlantic Coastal Action Program (acap) Saint John Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 135979722RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.