Lake Ainslie Volunteer Fire Department
Charitable organization · Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia · BN 118779156RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($227,569) as filed with the CRA.
Lake Ainslie Volunteer Fire Department is a charitable organization based in Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $161K in revenue and $228K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from government. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $96.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $82K in 2020 to $161K in 2024.
In its own words
Raise funds to provide fire protection services to the general area
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $161K | $228K | $216K | $12K | — | $857K |
| 2023 | $197K | $94K | $83K | $11K | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $116K | $98K | $50K | $18K | — | $938K |
| 2021 | $76K | $43K | $19K | — | — | $783K |
| 2020 | $82K | $76K | $76K | — | — | $750K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $96 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lake Ainslie Volunteer Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118779156RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.