Nova Scotia Crown Share Land Legacy Trust
Publicly funded institution · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 824507297RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,219,246) as filed with the CRA.
Nova Scotia Crown Share Land Legacy Trust is a private foundation based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 January 31, 2024, it reported $5.1M in revenue and $4.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $206.
Compared with 47 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $4.2M in 2024, the largest being $3.1M to Nova Scotia Nature Trust. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $208K in 2020 to $5.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the trust is to hold the trust property in trust to invest and keep invested the trust property until funds a required for disbursement to the beneficiaries for the purpose of securing and protecting high-conservation-priority lands in nova scotia in accordance with iucn standards for category I ii or hi protected areas. The beneficiaries are the nature conservancy of canada (ncc) the nova scotia nature trust (nsnt) and any other charitable non-governmental nature conservation land trusts that are designated as eligible bodies pursuant to the conservation easemen…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.1M | $4.2M | — | — | $4.2M | $3.4M |
| 2023 | $5.1M | $5.5M | $5.4M | — | $5.4M | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $61K | $3M | — | — | $2.9M | $0 |
| 2021 | $139K | $1.2M | — | — | $1.2M | $2.8M |
| 2020 | $208K | $2.1M | — | — | $2.1M | $2.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.2M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $206 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allison Smith (trustee); Donald Ncneil (trustee); Amanda Lavers (chair and trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nova Scotia Crown Share Land Legacy Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824507297RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.