Plympton & Gilberts Cove Volunteer Fire Dept.
Publicly funded institution · Plympton, Nova Scotia · BN 731865358RR0001 · Protective Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($81,077) as filed with the CRA.
Plympton & Gilberts Cove Volunteer Fire Dept. is a charitable organization based in Plympton, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under protective health care. 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 $108K in revenue and $81K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 89% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Firefighting: structural vehicle grass/wildfire medical response: providing first-response in advance of ambulance arrival motor vehicle collision (mvc): freeing entrapped passengers managing scene containing fluid leaks
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2024–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $108K | $81K | $57K | $1,539 | — | $888K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Amero (fire chief); Robert Sweeney (deputy chief); Kaitlin Slack (president); Wendy Amero (vice president); Jeff Shepherd (secretary-treasurer); Ryan Robicheau (voting member); Dianne Thurber (voting member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Plympton & Gilberts Cove Volunteer Fire Dept.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 731865358RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.