Chrysalis House Association
Publicly funded institution · Kentville, Nova Scotia · BN 131595209RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,592,813) as filed with the CRA.
Chrysalis House Association is a charitable organization based in Kentville, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $1.6M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 72% from government, 16% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $495K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $917K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Provide short term shelter counselling advocacy and outreach for abused women and their children. Also provide public education and training in the community and to other professionals whose work brings them into contact with abused women. Second stage housing is provided for the purpose of transitional or supported housing for individuals and families who are served by the association
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $25K | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $1M | $25K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $945K | $772K | $12K | — | $998K |
| 2021 | $3.2M | $890K | $522K | $952 | — | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $917K | $804K | $650K | $1,633 | — | $361K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $495K from 20 charities:
- Transition House Association of Nova Scotia$223K
- BenefAction Foundation$177K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- William L. Pearman Charitable Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,016
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$4,395
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,692
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$1,500
- 14 Wing Combined Charities$1,000
- George F. Wade Foundation$1,000
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$848
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$602
- Kentville United Baptist Church$300
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$287
- ST Mark's Chapel CFB Greenwood$250
- Church of Christ (disciples)$200
- Christian Reformed Church of Kentville$100
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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$964K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ginger Macphee (executive director); Sharon Cochrane (chair); Catherine Nichols (secretary); Edith Riley (member at large); Stephanie Macdonald (formerly Hut (treasurer); Heather Swetnam (member at large); Stacey Devries (member at large); Florence Denney (staff rep); Heather Clark (staff rep).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chrysalis House Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131595209RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.