Building Futures Employment Society
Publicly funded institution · Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia · BN 118829183RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,196,704) as filed with the CRA.
Building Futures Employment Society is a charitable organization based in Lower Sackville, 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 $2.2M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $35K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The community employment program: focuses on preemployment training skill development job searching/coaching the futures cafe provides training in food preparation baking cash register operating servicing the public and clean-up the skills gain in all wrapped up provides work skills training in mail-out services assembly line work packaging etc activities in the provacational program focus on developing and enhancing skills the offshoot shop provides work skills training to individuals in a work environment. Individuals have the opportunity to learn business practices such as com…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $1.7M | $8,917 | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.5M | $808 | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.4M | $1,366 | — | $988K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.6M | $1.2M | $961 | — | $931K |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.4M | $771 | — | $955K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $35K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sameer Alarlakhia (director); Clyde Paul (director); Sandra Jones (honorary director); Brian Lent (director); Peter Wilde (treasurer); Navdeep Parmanand (director); Jim Molloy (director); Gayle Drake (director); Jennifer Greek (executive director); Sandra Laforge (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Building Futures Employment Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118829183RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.