New Start Society
Publicly funded institution · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 899780910RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($879,591) as filed with the CRA.
New Start Society is a charitable organization based in Dartmouth, 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 $895K in revenue and $880K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $45K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $542K in 2020 to $895K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Provision of counseling services for individuals and groups within the violence provention sector of halifax regional municipality volunteer counseling program for qualified practitioners to co-facilitate group counselling. (2 volunteers 40 hours) counselling for men who have been sexually abused
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $895K | $880K | $692K | — | — | $294K |
| 2023 | $649K | $611K | $469K | — | — | $279K |
| 2022 | $563K | $480K | $365K | — | — | $241K |
| 2021 | $586K | $532K | $422K | — | — | $158K |
| 2020 | $542K | $534K | $411K | — | — | $105K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $45K from 3 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$715K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Margaret (peggy) Nash-Butt (past chair); Louis Staple (treasurer); Delthia Miller (secretary); Gordon Forsyth (acting chair); Tara Borden (member at large); Eunice Abaga (member at large); Mario Rolle (acting vice chair); Rhonda Johnson (member at large); Robyn Jackman (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from New Start Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899780910RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.