Howard House Association of Cape Breton
Publicly funded institution · Sydney, Nova Scotia · BN 107494429RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($534,846) as filed with the CRA.
Howard House Association of Cape Breton is a charitable organization based in Sydney, 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 $448K in revenue and $535K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $1,500.
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 92% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Howard house maintains a residential center in downtown sydney which provides room and board 24 hour supervision life skills experience counselling and referral services in a structured environment. It's mission is to be of service to persons in conflict with the law or with the community by the facilitating their resocialization while maintaining their dignity and the safety of the community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $448K | $535K | $532K | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $514K | $520K | $517K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $350K | $433K | $430K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $468K | $437K | $435K | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $523K | $431K | $428K | — | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $1,500 from 1 charity:
- The Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Antigonish$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$377K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Terri Dennis (chair person); Dave Snow (vice chairperson); James Snow (secretary/treasurer); Donna Matheson (board member); Bernadette Maclellan (board member); Charlene Hunes (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Howard House Association of Cape Breton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107494429RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.