Nova Scotia Health Authority (nsha)
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 886143213RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,657,819,000) as filed with the CRA.
Nova Scotia Health Authority (nsha) is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. 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 $3.8B in revenue and $3.7B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $10.1M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 21,457 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.5B in 2020 to $3.8B in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
The nova scotia health authority delivers inpatient and outpatient health care services to nova scotians at various hosptals clinics and health centres throughout the province of nova scotia. Services provided include acute care mental health and addiction services continuing care in communities public health primary care and rehabilitation services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8B | $3.7B | $3.4B | — | — | $1.3B |
| 2023 | $3.3B | $3.2B | $2.9B | — | — | $1.2B |
| 2022 | $2.8B | $2.8B | $2.6B | — | — | $1.1B |
| 2021 | $2.6B | $2.5B | $2.3B | — | — | $1.1B |
| 2020 | $2.5B | $2.4B | $2.2B | — | — | $1.1B |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $10.1M from 21 charities:
- Qeii Health Sciences Centre Auxiliary$3.6M
- Aberdeen Health Foundation Society$2.1M
- Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation$2M
- The Colchester East Hants Health Centre Foundation$767K
- Inverness Consolidated Memorial Hospital Charitable Foundation$599K
- Roseway Hospital Charitable Foundation$349K
- Cumberland Health CARE Foundation$147K
- Praxis Spinal Cord Institute$110K
- Annapolis West Health Foundation$81K
- The Medavie Foundation Inc.$80K
- Lillian Fraser Memorial Hospital Foundation$58K
- Ladies Auxiliary to the Aberdeen Hospital$37K
- North Cumberland Memorial Hospital Auxiliary$30K
- All Saints Community Health CARE Foundation$24K
- The Kidney Foundation of Canada$24K
- Fishermen's Memorial Hospital Auxiliary$19K
- Cystic Fibrosis Canada / Fibrose Kystique Canada$12K
- Sutherland Harris Memorial Hospital Foundation$6,367
- New Waterford Consolidated Hospital Charitable Foundation$1,753
- Bayview Communities Health Foundation$1,500
- Bessie Borden Perpetuity Trust$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9995 positions
- $250,000–299,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21,457
- Total compensation, all staff$2.4B
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Janet Davidson (board chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nova Scotia Health Authority (nsha)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886143213RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.