Pomquet Fire & Emergency Services
Publicly funded institution · Pomquet Antigonish, Nova Scotia · BN 886176593RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($255,988) as filed with the CRA.
Pomquet Fire & Emergency Services is a charitable organization based in Pomquet Antigonish, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $380K in revenue and $256K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
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 4 names.
In its own words
Provision of civic emergency services by volunteers
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $380K | $256K | — | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $343K | $236K | $220K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $304K | $138K | $123K | — | — | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $272K | $282K | $268K | — | — | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $263K | $116K | $104K | — | — | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$19K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Pierre Venedam (fire chief); Doug Benoit (deputy fire chief); Daniel Landry (treasurer); Vince Hallett (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Pomquet Fire & Emergency Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886176593RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.