Noel & District Volunteer Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · Noel, Nova Scotia · BN 893328369RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($228,372) as filed with the CRA.
Noel & District Volunteer Fire Department is a charitable organization based in Noel, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $464K in revenue and $228K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 3% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 89% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $5,000 in 2023, the largest being $5,000 to Walton Shore Fire Department Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $205K in 2020 to $464K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
We operate a volunteer fire department and we strive to protect and support the community by providing outstanding service in the areas of fire suppression emergency response member training fire prevention public education and charitable community service.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $464K | $228K | $30K | $38K | — | $630K |
| 2023 | $303K | $207K | $24K | $41K | — | $394K |
| 2022 | $194K | $163K | $31K | $35K | — | $559K |
| 2021 | $154K | $104K | $23K | $4,438 | — | $535K |
| 2020 | $205K | $160K | $32K | $22K | — | $494K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Granted $5,000 to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John McLellan (director); Ronald Densmore (director); Donald Hughes (director); Wayne Greene (director); Burton Friesen (director); Darrell Bond (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Noel & District Volunteer Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893328369RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.