Hemford & District Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · New Germany, Nova Scotia · BN 128286432RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($194,895) as filed with the CRA.
Hemford & District Fire Department is a charitable organization based in New Germany, 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 $205K in revenue and $195K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 58% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2020, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $395.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Provide fire protection emergency rescue and medical first response to the area covered by the fire department. We aslo provide mutual aid to the surrounding fire departments. Our hall is available as a comfort station during power outages and storm related situations
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $205K | $195K | $14K | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $127K | $75K | $6,984 | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $106K | $103K | $9 | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $109K | $89K | $174 | — | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $164K | $191K | $13K | — | — | $971K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Received $395 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Murdoch Hunter (fire chief); Arthur Jensen (deputy chief/treasurer); Jolene Mailman (secretary); Bezanson Peter (firefighter/director); David Schnare (firefighter/director); Peter Hunter (firefighter/director); Darlene Hunter (firefighter/director); David Jensen (firefighter/director); Michael Sauliner (firefighter/director); Arthur Delaney (firefighter/director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hemford & District Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 128286432RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.