Margaree Volunteer Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · Margaree Forks, Nova Scotia · BN 107665614RR0001 · Protective Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($321,063) as filed with the CRA.
Margaree Volunteer Fire Department is a charitable organization based in Margaree Forks, 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 $374K in revenue and $321K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $315.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 98% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $198K in 2020 to $374K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Provide volunteer fire protection and prevention within the boundaries set out by the by-laws; conduct fire safety programs; provide first responder coverage when called upon by EHS; primary funding received through municipal fire protection tax
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $374K | $321K | $248K | $73K | — | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $252K | $216K | $106K | $110K | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $196K | $151K | $95K | $56K | — | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $198K | $168K | $115K | — | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $315 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$54K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew Clarey (president); Billy Crowley (secretary); Brian Doucet (vice - president); Tommy LeBlanc (treasurer); Robert MacLoed (cheif); Morley MacNeil (director); Sandy Doucette (deputy cheif); Gerard Miller (director); Malcom MacKinnion (director); Pamela Haley (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Margaree Volunteer Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107665614RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.