Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia
Publicly funded institution · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 132033986RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,128,292) as filed with the CRA.
Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia is a charitable organization based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $4.1M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 59% from government, 23% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $992K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 10% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $778K in 2020 to $4.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $4.1M | $3M | — | — | $495K |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $3.3M | $2.4M | — | — | $482K |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $1.3M | — | — | $566K |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $990K | — | — | $474K |
| 2020 | $778K | $748K | $446K | — | — | $335K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $992K from 19 charities:
- The Northpine Foundation$500K
- Canadahelps Canadon$131K
- Canadahelps Canadon$131K
- The Northpine Foundation$90K
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$30K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$22K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$22K
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$20K
- United Way of Colchester County$18K
- Definity Insurance Foundation$13K
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor$7,000
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$6,187
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,768
- ST Paul's Church$1,290
- BenefAction Foundation$500
- First Baptist Church$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$253
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$26
- The British Columbia Civil Liberties Accociation—
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 positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$2.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rebecca Lavinge (treasurer); Jane Wilwerth (secretary); Alysha Bulman (director); Cydney Kane (chair); Kathleen Hyland (vice chair); Tina Kane (director); Megan Rutherford (director); Taylor Macneill (director); Guylaine Landry (director); Charlie Burke (director); Claudia Covalciuc (director); Jane Sobey (director); Kaisen Mackinnon (director); Sydney Hull (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132033986RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.