Our Neighbourhood Living Society
Publicly funded institution · Bedford, Nova Scotia · BN 890645476RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,803,078) as filed with the CRA.
Our Neighbourhood Living Society is a charitable organization based in Bedford, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $5.8M in revenue and $5.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
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 12% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 26 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Onls provides community living needs to those in the halifax regional municipality that are intellectually challenged and need individualized
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.8M | $5.8M | $4.4M | — | — | $252K |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $4.6M | $4M | — | — | $259K |
| 2022 | $4.4M | $4.4M | $3.9M | — | — | $343K |
| 2021 | $4.4M | $4.5M | $3.9M | — | — | $360K |
| 2020 | $4.5M | $4.5M | $4M | — | — | $443K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions26
- Total compensation, all staff$4.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Les Beaver (chair); Michelle Stapleton (treasurer); Carol-Anne Larade (secretary); Mark Macleod (member at large); Lorraine Bartlett (member at large); Jim Snair (member at large); Roberta Deering (member at large); Maureen Carew (member at large); Barry Jack (executive diretor).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Our Neighbourhood Living Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890645476RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.