New Ross District Museum Society
Publicly funded institution · New Ross, Nova Scotia · BN 108090077RR0001 · Public Amenities
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,451,238) as filed with the CRA.
New Ross District Museum Society is a charitable organization based in New Ross, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $1.3M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $96.
Compared with 276 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Ross farm is nova scotia's living museum of agriculture. The farm preserves the story of life in ns by maintaining the core of ross farm portraying the lifestyles and values of a farm family and demonslating the process and skills required to sustain a living from the farm. Furthermore the museum encourages an understanding of modern agriculture by connecting the past with the future. Ross farm carries out educational programs to support the museums statement.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.5M | $1M | — | — | $366K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.4M | $885K | — | — | $483K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.3M | $865K | — | — | $753K |
| 2021 | $2M | $1.3M | $934K | — | — | $581K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1.3M | $926K | — | — | $3.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $96 from 1 charity:
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
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
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 New Ross District Museum Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108090077RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.