Halifax Refugee Clinic Association
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 853287530RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,634,079) as filed with the CRA.
Halifax Refugee Clinic Association is a private foundation based in Halifax, 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 December 31, 2023, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 59% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $150K.
Compared with 1,558 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $593K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2023. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The Halifax Refugee Clinic continued its mission to provide no-cost legal and settlement services to refugee claimants and at-risk non-status migrants who are unable to afford private counsel.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $1.6M | — | — | $734K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $996K | $951K | — | — | $532K |
| 2021 | $673K | $868K | — | — | — | $397K |
| 2020 | $593K | $372K | $311K | — | — | $601K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $150K from 11 charities:
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$31K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- The Catherine Donnelly Foundation$20K
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$8,633
- Da Stinson Foundation$2,800
- GJM Charitable Foundation$2,755
- Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement Centre$137
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$10
- Corporation of the Sisters of ST Martha—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
San Patten (chair); Shiva Nourpanah (secretary); Driton Dembogaj (treasurer); Barbara David (member); Penny MacKinnon (member); Lee Cohen (member/chair emeritus); Joshua Judah (member); Sara Mahaney (member); Debra Ross (member).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Halifax Refugee Clinic Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 853287530RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.