Blockhouse and District Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · Blockhouse, Nova Scotia · BN 131692170RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($186,650) as filed with the CRA.
Blockhouse and District Fire Department is a charitable organization based in Blockhouse, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $236K in revenue and $187K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5,167.
Compared with 1,147 community-service 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 higher than 76% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
In its own words
Providing emergency response services to residents of our community and surrounding area's through our volunteer membership.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $236K | $187K | $183K | $2,083 | — | $559K |
| 2023 | $234K | $202K | $202K | — | — | $510K |
| 2022 | $264K | $258K | $257K | $945 | — | $652K |
| 2021 | $184K | $180K | $180K | $500 | — | $525K |
| 2020 | $183K | $175K | $171K | $3,311 | — | $420K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5,167 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Blockhouse and District Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131692170RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.