Open Arms Resource Centre Society
Publicly funded institution · Kentville, Nova Scotia · BN 815158340RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,766,011) as filed with the CRA.
Open Arms Resource Centre Society is a charitable organization based in Kentville, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $106K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 100% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $404K in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Assist individuals with emergency shelter permanent housing food clothing support groups life skills health/social services training and reemployment services
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.9M | $2,599 | — | $533K |
| 2022 | $895K | $842K | $828K | $2,593 | — | $397K |
| 2021 | $417K | $483K | $478K | $1,045 | — | $344K |
| 2020 | $404K | $250K | $217K | — | — | $534K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $106K from 13 charities:
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$70K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$11K
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,500
- George F. Wade Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$648
- 14 Wing Combined Charities$500
- Charitable Foundation of Carquest and Worldpac (canada) Ltd./fondation de Bienfaisance Carquest et Worldpac (canada) Ltee$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$396
- ST Mark's Chapel CFB Greenwood$250
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$160
- Emmanuel United Church$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Thomas Veinot (chair); Patrick Whynot (vice chair); Erika Veinot (treasurer); Michael Veenema (secretary); Emily Papineau (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Open Arms Resource Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815158340RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.