Little Harbour Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · Little Harbour, Nova Scotia · BN 891926362RR0001 · Protective Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($162,411) as filed with the CRA.
Little Harbour Fire Department is a charitable organization based in Little Harbour, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under protective health care. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $416K in revenue and $162K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 73% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $20K.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $15K in 2024, the largest being $10K to Pictou County Food Bank East. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $203K in 2020 to $416K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Volunteer fire department - fire protection and water rescue
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $416K | $162K | $141K | $5,800 | $15K | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $365K | $141K | $134K | $7,321 | $11K | $2.9M |
| 2022 | $345K | $133K | $112K | $13K | $7,500 | $3M |
| 2021 | $264K | $142K | $125K | $7,594 | $9,285 | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $203K | — | — | — | — | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $15K to 3 qualified donees:
- Pictou County Food Bank East$10K
- Pictou County Volunteer Ground Search and Rescue$5,000
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Pictou County$200
Received $20K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kevin Russell (director); Debi Wadden (director); Cindy Brown (director); John Baldwin (director); Donnie Wadden (president); Matthew Brown (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Little Harbour Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891926362RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.