Brigadoon Children's Camp Society
Charitable organization · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 887767507RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,573,013) as filed with the CRA.
Brigadoon Children's Camp Society is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.7M in revenue and $3.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from donations, 29% from other charities. In 2024, 34 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
With our partners we deliver year-round camp programming to children youth and families living with health conditions or other life challenges in Atlantic Canada. We raise money through individuals corporate and third party events to help support these programs. In any given year we have at least 30 volunteers and Board of Governors helping us with these fundraising activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.7M | $3.6M | $2.7M | $459K | $0 | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $4.7M | $3.9M | $2.6M | $485K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $6.4M | $3.1M | $1.9M | $751K | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $6.5M | $2.1M | $1M | $545K | — | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $1.6M | $802K | $408K | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 34 charities:
- Around the Bend Foundation$300K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$165K
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$105K
- The McCain Foundation$100K
- The Joyce Family Foundation$75K
- The Lucky Bean Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$39K
- Walker Wood Foundation$35K
- Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation$33K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$17K
- Halifax Youth Foundation$15K
- The Edwards Family Charitable Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$12K
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$11K
- Grace Health Centre for Children Women and Families$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- The Stevens Family Foundation$10K
- River Philip Foundation$10K
- Flemming Charitable Foundation$6,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$5,500
- E K M Health Foundation$5,138
- Definity Insurance Foundation$5,000
- Craig Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$3,200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Flemming (chair); Anthony Otley (director); Heather Sutherland (director); Christine Bonnell-Eisner (director); Sue McKeage (director); Rod Murphy (director); Anthony Saikali (director); Jerome (Ruki) Watson (director); Lisa Bugden (director); Dawn Dauphinee (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Brigadoon Children's Camp Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887767507RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.