Island Employment Association
Publicly funded institution · Sydney, Nova Scotia · BN 861942993RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2021-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,281,617) as filed with the CRA.
Island Employment Association 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, 2021, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2020, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $200.
Compared with 715 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 35 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Various funding programs wage subsidies skill enhancement disability supports operation of ns works programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2021
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $1.7M | — | — | $152K |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $3.1M | $2.4M | — | — | $67K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Received $200 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions35
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2021)
Ankaer Ainiwaer (director); Janet Langille (vice chair); Graham Marshall (director); Bernie Mason (treasurer); Murdoch Moore (chair); Jane Orrell (executive director); Janet Steele (secretary); Vivek Patel (director); Josette Marchand (director); Arun Kumar (director); Lisa Douglas (director); Haley Macgillivary (director).
As listed on its 2021 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Island Employment Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861942993RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.