Corridor Community Options for Adults
Publicly funded institution · Elmsdale, Nova Scotia · BN 865379119RR0004 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,309,526) as filed with the CRA.
Corridor Community Options for Adults is a charitable organization based in Elmsdale, 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 $1.3M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,536.
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 50% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $3M in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
To provide educational vocational training and employment opportunities to adults with intellectual disabilites.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.2M | $166 | — | $28K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $1.1M | $1,676 | — | $74K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $1M | $418 | — | $55K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $954K | $852K | $3,616 | — | $126K |
| 2020 | $3M | — | $976K | — | — | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1,536 from 3 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$967K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gerard Garden (president); Martha Mills (vice president); Ronald Chisholm (treasurer); Cecil Dixon (director); Sharon Whiteway (director); John Shields (director); Sheila Bianchi (director); Heather MacKeil (secretary); Roderick Dickie (director); Sandra Garden-Cole (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Corridor Community Options for Adults’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865379119RR0004), or read how we compute the receipt.