Family Service Association of Western Nova Scotia
Publicly funded institution · Bridgewater, Nova Scotia · BN 892486762RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($430,107) as filed with the CRA.
Family Service Association of Western Nova Scotia is a charitable organization based in Bridgewater, 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 $215K in revenue and $430K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 222% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $24.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 21% of peers. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $698K in 2020 to $215K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Fsawns supports sustainable human rights-based structural change at individual family community and system levels. At all of these levels we serve and advocate for under-served over-criminalized excluded youth families and communities. We link the people we serve with the prevention and early intervention social determinants of health supports they have a right to access (social inclusion food security education employment housing...). We work at all levels to replace costly and unsustainable interventions with sustainable individual family community and system solutions. Progr…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $215K | $430K | $314K | — | — | $303K |
| 2023 | $188K | $125K | $86K | — | — | $477K |
| 2022 | $702K | $687K | $562K | — | — | $367K |
| 2021 | $992K | $844K | $645K | — | — | $413K |
| 2020 | $698K | $669K | $468K | — | — | $266K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $24 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$311K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Art Fisher (executive director); Kathryn Dumke (director); Paul Fay (director); Anne Marie Romkey-Howlett (director); George Buranyi (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Family Service Association of Western Nova Scotia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892486762RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.