Brunswick Street Mission
Charitable organization · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 816659320RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($887,138) as filed with the CRA.
Brunswick Street Mission is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $875K in revenue and $887K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from donations, 34% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $318K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Breakfast program-hot meal bxwk benevolent support-short-term financial support for crisis food bank-grocery support clothing bank-clothing & house hold items tex retruns-complete tax returns year-round christmas-gifts hampers meals
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $875K | $887K | $498K | $138K | — | $520K |
| 2023 | $665K | $724K | $383K | $116K | — | $530K |
| 2022 | $662K | $674K | $358K | $108K | — | $579K |
| 2021 | $786K | $844K | $579K | $93K | — | $632K |
| 2020 | $932K | $683K | $490K | $69K | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $318K from 29 charities:
- Brunswick Street United Church$92K
- Canadahelps Canadon$39K
- Canadahelps Canadon$39K
- The Windsor Foundation$21K
- Halifax Foundation$19K
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$16K
- Black Family Foundation$13K
- Bethany United Church$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- Flemming Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundation$10K
- Halifax Youth Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,717
- Da Stinson Foundation$5,500
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- O.E. Smith Trust$2,907
- Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,500
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- Fairview Pastoral Charge$1,250
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$920
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$770
- ST Luke's United Church$550
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$406
- Saint James Anglican Church$350
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$478K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Margaret Casey (director); Richard Gunn (secretary); Ian Parker (director); Jim Sharpe (director); Heather Williams (chair); Sundari Pashupathinathan (vice chair); Ann Burleigh (director); David Griffiths (director); William Chambre (director); Elizabeth Welcher (director); Sundeep Chopra (director); Heather Fitzpatrick (director); Liz Townsend (director); Josh Bates (director); Chance Diplock (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Brunswick Street Mission’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 816659320RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.