Halifax Transition House Association
Publicly funded institution · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 118951094RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,860,983) as filed with the CRA.
Halifax Transition House Association is a charitable organization based in Dartmouth, 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 $2.8M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 69% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $172K.
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 4% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The charity provided temporary emergency shelter for more than 250 women and families leaving situations of intimate partner violence (IPV) at the Bryony House Shelter. Programs offered at the shelter consisted of one-on-one supportive counselling. The Halifax Transition House Association provided outreach programming to more than 100 women through one-on-one sessions referrals group workshops and court support for women addressing legal matters. The Halifax Transition House Association also provided women and families residing in the shelter and those accessing our outreach program with hou…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $2.9M | $1.6M | $30K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.5M | $186K | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $2.3M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $2M | $2M | $1.7M | $14K | — | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $1.7M | $1.5M | $505 | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $172K from 15 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$59K
- Canadahelps Canadon$59K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,630
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$4,988
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$2,000
- Open Sky$2,000
- Bethany United Church$1,100
- Colin and Belle MacDonald Charitable Foundation$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$406
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$312
- Grace United Church$300
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 positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Samantha Allen (member); Tanya Chedrawy (chair); Gabriel Adeoye (member); Natasha Kruitwagen (member); Donna Upham (member); Toyin Akindoju (treasurer); Beth Wallace (member); Jessica Milhausen (member); Michele Poole (vice chair); Susan O'Neill (secretary); Katharine Lovett (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Halifax Transition House Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118951094RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.