Colchester Community Support Society
Charitable organization · Truro, Nova Scotia · BN 106951759RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($808,086) as filed with the CRA.
Colchester Community Support Society is a charitable organization based in Truro, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $941K in revenue and $808K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 59% from donations, 27% from government, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $403K.
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 59% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $525K in 2020 to $941K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
1. Operation of a community foodbank in truro ns. 2. Distribution of meal kits to rural areas of colchester county ns.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $941K | $808K | $739K | $43 | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $611K | $607K | $596K | $474 | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $769K | $457K | $418K | $1,309 | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $349K | $323K | $154K | — | — | $741K |
| 2020 | $525K | $304K | $211K | $1,300 | — | $721K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $403K from 23 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$124K
- Canadahelps Canadon$124K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$68K
- Right To Food$50K
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia$7,800
- Brookfield United Baptist Church$5,330
- The People Church C/o Treasurer$4,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$3,000
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,212
- ST James Presbyterian Church$2,130
- ST. Andrew's United Church$2,000
- Clifton Pastoral Charge$1,685
- The People Church C/o Treasurer$1,500
- BenefAction Foundation$1,250
- ST Paul's Presbyterian Church$1,170
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,000
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$640
- Upper Stewiacke-Springside Pastoral Charge$250
- Truro Heights United Baptist Church$200
- Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire$100
- Truro Alliance Church of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$40
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$166K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Aundrea Currie (chair); Catherine Faulkner (secretary); Leanne Roberts (board member); Vera Faye Smith (past chair); Stephen Dunne (vice chair); Gregory Routledge (treasurer); Gurpinder Loodu (board member); Stephen Flutz (board member); Paula Whittaker (board member); Dianne McLean (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Colchester Community Support Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106951759RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.