Family Service of Eastern Nova Scotia
Publicly funded institution · Sydney, Nova Scotia · BN 107376170RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,250,476) as filed with the CRA.
Family Service of Eastern Nova Scotia is a charitable organization based in Sydney, 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 $6.5M in revenue and $6.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
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 33% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 73 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.5M in 2020 to $6.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Counselling - families couples and individuals educational programs children and youth services
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.5M | $6.3M | $5.3M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $5.2M | $5.1M | $4.3M | — | — | $936K |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $3.4M | $2.9M | — | — | $779K |
| 2021 | $2.8M | $2.7M | $2.2M | — | — | $399K |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2M | — | — | $259K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $0 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions73
- Total compensation, all staff$5.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Macdonald (chair); Deepak Prasad (vice-chair); Shardeigh Macgillivray (secretary); Chris Martin (treasurer); Meg Sargent (member at large); Gary Rankin (member at large); Rhonda Matthews (member at large); Michael Finigan (member at large); Courtney Maceachern (member at large); Lorne Macneil (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Family Service of Eastern Nova Scotia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107376170RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.