Mi'Kmaw Family and Children's Services of Nova Scotia
Publicly funded institution · Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia · BN 892481656RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($36,785,788) as filed with the CRA.
Mi'Kmaw Family and Children's Services of Nova Scotia is a charitable organization based in Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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, 2024, it reported $36.6M in revenue and $36.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $451.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 185 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Child protection services Prevention programming Family Violence prevention and support Healing/shelter services Family & community resource services
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $36.6M | $36.8M | $30.2M | — | — | $8.6M |
| 2023 | $31.1M | $31M | $25.3M | — | — | $8.7M |
| 2022 | $28.9M | $30M | $23.4M | — | — | $8.7M |
| 2021 | $24.9M | $25M | $20.1M | — | — | $9.8M |
| 2020 | $26.4M | $26.2M | $21M | — | — | $9.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $451 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions185
- Total compensation, all staff$15.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mi'Kmaw Family and Children's Services of Nova Scotia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892481656RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.