Northwood Support Services Incorporated
Publicly funded institution · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 801090200RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($55,550,631) as filed with the CRA.
Northwood Support Services Incorporated 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 $62.3M in revenue and $55.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $360K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $8.7M in 2024, the largest being $7.2M to Northwoodcare Group Incorporated. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.1M in 2020 to $62.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
We provide aged ill or disabled persons with recreational education cultural activities and other programs to relieve loneliness and isolation or to improve their mobility and fitness. We operate a bus service which transports seniors to special events and assisted shopping trips. Our staffing agency provide employees for the long term care and home operations in other registered charities. We operate a fitness centre for long care and apartment residents as well as senior citizens living in the community. We run a health centre which caters mostly to senior citizens providing medical dent…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $62.3M | $55.6M | $54.7M | — | — | $4.7M |
| 2023 | $52.5M | $47.3M | $46.2M | — | $274K | $6.9M |
| 2022 | $11M | $10.2M | $9.1M | — | $143K | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $4.8M | $6.1M | $3.3M | — | $2.2M | $873K |
| 2020 | $5.1M | $4.6M | $3.4M | — | $400K | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $8.7M to 3 qualified donees:
Received $360K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$4.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gavin Stuttard (chair); Michael Sherar (vice chair); Janet Simm (secretary); Reinhard Jerabek (treasurer); Barbara Hall (governor); Roberto Menendez (governor); Vicki Black (governor); Lois Black (governor); Jerome Grady (governor); Denise Stevens (governor).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northwood Support Services Incorporated’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 801090200RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.