Beacon United Church of Canada
Charitable organization · Yarmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 106779879RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($278,071) as filed with the CRA.
Beacon United Church of Canada is a charitable organization based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $318K in revenue and $278K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $29K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 80% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
It reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $33K in 2024, the largest being $18K to The United Church of Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $129K in 2020 to $318K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Weekly worship service in person and live on facebook. Free meal provided once a month for 10 months of the year for members of the community. A benevolent fund provided assistance to individuals in need of food medication dental and vision care. Space is provided for community outreach programs such as alcoholics anonymous and narcotics anonymous to meet four times a week. Space is provided for guides brownies embers scouts and beavers to meet as well as space for dept. Of community services forfamily visitations. Continued support of national and international humanitarian charities an…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $318K | $278K | $222K | $126 | $33K | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $262K | $266K | $242K | $531 | $25K | $9.1M |
| 2022 | $91K | $303K | — | — | $22K | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $536K | $191K | — | — | $16K | $2M |
| 2020 | $129K | $135K | $28K | — | $17K | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $33K to 5 qualified donees:
Received $29K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$123K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Sollows (chair of council); Irene White (vice chair of chruch council); Janet Sollows (secretary of church council); Stephen Sollows (treasurer); Martin Pink (chair of trustees); David Sollows (trustee); James Cook (trustee); Stephen Solows (trustee); John Macdonald (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Beacon United Church of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106779879RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.