Our Health Centre Foundation
Public foundation · Chester, Nova Scotia · BN 826641102RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($159,471) as filed with the CRA.
Our Health Centre Foundation is a public foundation based in Chester, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $679K in revenue and $159K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 59% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $15K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 77% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $90K in 2024, the largest being $90K to Our Health Centre Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $72K in 2020 to $679K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
To improve the health and health care of people of the municipality of the district of chester and surrouding area and specifically to provide support to our health centre association and other health facilities that are registered charities. The foundation receives donations and undertakes fundraising activities for the purpose of program development and operation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $679K | $159K | — | $23K | $90K | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $493K | $74K | — | $3,560 | $45K | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $679K | $53K | — | $1,803 | $30K | $867K |
| 2021 | $107K | $51K | $43K | — | — | $241K |
| 2020 | $72K | — | — | — | — | $184K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $90K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $15K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ronald McDonald (chair); Janice Moreside (secretary); Robert Fraser (treasurer); Cathy Ross (director); Lisa Aiken (director); Katie Macdonald (director); Jeff Sommerville (vice- chair); Katherine Ryder-Burbidge (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Our Health Centre Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 826641102RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.