Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade
Publicly funded institution · Belmont, Nova Scotia · BN 119067353RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($404,690) as filed with the CRA.
Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade is a charitable organization based in Belmont, 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 November 30, 2024, it reported $532K in revenue and $405K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $25.
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 90% of peers. 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 $239K in 2020 to $532K in 2024.
In its own words
Fire prevention fire suppression assistance at motor vehicle collision traffic control medical first responders fire safety lectures to schools and public.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $532K | $405K | $399K | $2,144 | — | $2.9M |
| 2023 | $442K | $400K | $372K | $2,572 | — | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $381K | $375K | $343K | $28K | — | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $430K | $214K | $192K | $19K | — | $3.2M |
| 2020 | $239K | — | — | — | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $25 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$3,422
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Onslow Belmont Fire Brigade’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119067353RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.