New Dawn Community Development Educational Foundation Inc.
Charitable organization · Sydney, Nova Scotia · BN 863074795RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($183,541) as filed with the CRA.
New Dawn Community Development Educational Foundation Inc. is a charitable organization based in Sydney, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $132K in revenue and $184K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $267K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $239K in 2020 to $132K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Community conversations to foster knowledge skills and colaborative action to related to community economic development. Building capacity to use data for community conversation and analysis. Community research and conversation on local food security. Youth engagement on issues opf poverty employment food security and mental health. Community research and learning on co-op and social enterprise development community networking and learning on climate change.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $132K | $184K | — | — | — | -$880K |
| 2023 | $391K | $160K | $152K | — | — | — |
| 2022 | $323K | $263K | $258K | — | — | -$917K |
| 2021 | $196K | $395K | $176K | — | — | -$833K |
| 2020 | $239K | $205K | $185K | $11K | — | -$544K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $267K from 14 charities:
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$100K
- United Way of Cape Breton County$38K
- United Way of Cape Breton County$30K
- United Way of Cape Breton County$30K
- United Way of Cape Breton County$22K
- The Catherine Donnelly Foundation$20K
- Halifax Youth Foundation$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,249
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$2,500
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$2,500
- Grace Fellowship Church (associate Reformed Presbyterian)$2,000
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$1,816
- Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc.—
- Corporation of the Sisters of ST Martha—
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
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$107K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Erika Shea (ceo/president); Kalie Wang (chair); Terry Gibbs (director); Stan Johnson (director); Jill Macpherson (director); Emily Percival-Paterson (director); Liam O'Rourke (director); Ankit Wadhwa (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from New Dawn Community Development Educational Foundation Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863074795RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.