Lakecity Employment Services Association
Charitable organization · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 119002434RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,264,906) as filed with the CRA.
Lakecity Employment Services Association is a charitable organization based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $3.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from government. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $90K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Employement support for mental health consumers. Lake city provides work and work related opportunities for people who have experienced mental health difficulties. Lakecity offers a vocational centre to train individuals in the production of furniture and wine racks. Lakecity also operates reboot nova scotia in a computer recycling program. Lakecity offers an employment service for people experiencing mental health difficulties who wish to gain employment in the community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $2.8M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $3.3M | $2.9M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $3.5M | $3.6M | $3.2M | — | — | $979K |
| 2021 | $3.4M | $3.2M | $2.7M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $2.9M | $2.5M | — | — | $947K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $90K from 5 charities:
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 positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lori Smith (member); Christina Firmini (chair); Jim Simmons (secretary); Robert Chisolm (consultant); Tim Sullivan (treasurer); Kiran Pure (member); Maria Simmons (member); Ron Sherrard (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lakecity Employment Services Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119002434RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.