Chester and Area Family Resource Centre
Publicly funded institution · Chester, Nova Scotia · BN 891492233RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,156,416) as filed with the CRA.
Chester and Area Family Resource Centre is a charitable organization based in Chester, 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 May 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 64% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2020, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $100.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Operation of early childhood education programs and daycare facility in Chester Nova Scotia. The Centre's mandate is to provide information resources and services to help reduce isolation improve community resourcefulness and increase opportunities for children youth and families in the municipality of Chester.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $1M | $1,875 | — | $615K |
| 2023 | $987K | $996K | $866K | $2,509 | — | $608K |
| 2022 | $802K | $830K | $718K | $1,690 | — | $583K |
| 2021 | $1M | $821K | $712K | $1,521 | — | $577K |
| 2020 | $786K | $726K | $617K | $1,036 | — | $318K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Received $100 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$877K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chester and Area Family Resource Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891492233RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.