Nova Scotia League for Equal Opportunities (NS Leo)
Publicly funded institution · Hatchet Lake, Nova Scotia · BN 119063477RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($211,408) as filed with the CRA.
Nova Scotia League for Equal Opportunities (NS Leo) is a charitable organization based in Hatchet Lake, 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 $212K in revenue and $211K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 90% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2021, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $135.
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 12% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 76% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $82K in 2020 to $212K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Provincial access awareness disability student scholarships provincial disability partnership poverty reduction strategy women with disabilities disability information sharing sessions public and member disability education disability emergency preparedness united nations disability education provincial disability tourism improvements quality of life index research accessible housing gender based violence international day for persons with disabilities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $212K | $211K | $125K | $51K | — | $83K |
| 2023 | $121K | $118K | $62K | $40K | — | $82K |
| 2022 | $129K | $109K | — | — | — | $80K |
| 2021 | $71K | $75K | $35K | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $82K | $83K | $31K | — | — | $51K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $135 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$117K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Melissa Myers (co-chair); Kim Aker (treasurer/secretary); Craig Aucoin (chair); Shaun Clark (director); Ian Lawless (director); William Brewer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nova Scotia League for Equal Opportunities (NS Leo)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119063477RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.