Colchester Historical Society Museum
Publicly funded institution · Truro, Nova Scotia · BN 118867134RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($289,803) as filed with the CRA.
Colchester Historical Society Museum is a charitable organization based in Truro, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $211K in revenue and $290K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $278.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The society oversees activities designed to carry out its mandate of collecting preserving researching and exhibiting in an educational manner artifacts and archival material related to the social and natural history of archival research collecting fund raising activities school visits and liaisoning with local groups.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $211K | $290K | $188K | — | — | $465K |
| 2023 | $321K | $266K | $168K | — | — | $543K |
| 2022 | $318K | $228K | $156K | — | — | $488K |
| 2021 | $332K | $247K | $153K | — | — | $398K |
| 2020 | $268K | $246K | $158K | — | — | $313K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $278 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$185K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karen Archibald Waugh (director); Amy Atkinson (treasurer); David Boehm (president); Leslie Burrows (secretary); Frank Cassidy (direcor); Daniel Doroshenko (director); Kenneth Henderson (director); Amanda Oberski (director); Ernest Walker (director); Terry White (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Colchester Historical Society Museum’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118867134RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.