North River and District Fire Brigade
Publicly funded institution · North River, Nova Scotia · BN 119061083RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($320,687) as filed with the CRA.
North River and District Fire Brigade is a charitable organization based in North River, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $409K in revenue and $321K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 81% 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 17% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $257K in 2020 to $409K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Provide fire protection and respond to mv.a. And medical calls for the community of north river and surrounding area also provide mutual aid to other brigades as required our membership is 100% volunteer and members are on call 100% of the time via pagers average training hours per year are over 200 hrs 23 members at present
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $409K | $321K | $222K | $8,067 | — | $2.9M |
| 2023 | $871K | $563K | $489K | $6,454 | — | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $489K | $321K | $299K | $2,835 | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $297K | $201K | $188K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $257K | $245K | — | — | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chris Franklin (fire chief); Mark Rbownell (deputy fire chief); Evan Hansen (asst fire chief); Donald Glenjen (treasurer); Trevor Lynds (secretary); Brian Ellis (finance + auditing).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from North River and District Fire Brigade’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119061083RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.