Barrington/Port La Tour Volunteer Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · Barrington, Nova Scotia · BN 838859981RR0001 · Protective Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($226,496) as filed with the CRA.
Barrington/Port La Tour Volunteer Fire Department is a charitable organization based in Barrington, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under protective 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $445K in revenue and $226K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 63% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $262.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Assist the community with fire or medical emergencies. This is completed with the help volunteer firefighters and members and by the community supporting fundraising efforts.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $445K | $226K | $222K | $4,380 | — | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $531K | $121K | $116K | $5,340 | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $228K | $100K | $100K | $837 | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $262 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Suzanne Lamrock (treasurer); Arthur Doane (deputy chief); Paul Thomas (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Barrington/Port La Tour Volunteer Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 838859981RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.