Cheticamp Voluntary Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · Cheticamp, Nova Scotia · BN 118851534RR0001 · Protective Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($145,114) as filed with the CRA.
Cheticamp Voluntary Fire Department is a charitable organization based in Cheticamp, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under protective health care. 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 January 31, 2024, it reported $96K in revenue and $145K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 105% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $65.
Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Providing fire protection and first repsonder service to local area and to highland national park.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $96K | $145K | — | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $273K | $96K | — | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $170K | $82K | — | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $155K | $91K | — | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $141K | — | — | — | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $65 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wayne Chiasson (fire chief); Aurel Bourgeois (treasurer); Matthew Bourgeois (president); Maurice Bourgeois (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cheticamp Voluntary Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118851534RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.