Blue's Mills and Area Volunteer Fire Dept
Charitable organization · Blue's Mills, Nova Scotia · BN 890210776RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($135,618) as filed with the CRA.
Blue's Mills and Area Volunteer Fire Dept is a charitable organization based in Blue's Mills, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $74K in revenue and $136K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from government. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $38.
Compared with 1,274 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $20K in 2020 to $74K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Fire & rescue in the community of blues mills ns including 105. Educational programs pertaining to fire prevention & safety maintenance of a facility for storage of equipment and as a base for operations and training provision of fire & rescue related training to its volunteer memebrs. Support of adjoining communities volunteer fire services through mutial aid protcols.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $74K | $136K | $136K | — | — | $248K |
| 2023 | $113K | $55K | $51K | $3,936 | — | $309K |
| 2022 | $83K | $36K | $36K | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $64K | $28K | $28K | — | — | $204K |
| 2020 | $20K | $33K | $33K | — | — | $167K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $38 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Murdock Maclean (fire chief); Desmond Rouse (deputy chief); Adam Kennedy (secretary); Mary Rouse (treasures).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Blue's Mills and Area Volunteer Fire Dept’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890210776RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.