Portal Youth Outreach Association
Publicly funded institution · Kentville, Nova Scotia · BN 853663664RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($785,847) as filed with the CRA.
Portal Youth Outreach Association is a charitable organization based in Kentville, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $828K in revenue and $786K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $83K.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 28 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $469K in 2020 to $828K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Provides program for youth that are at risk-after school sports life skills housing support referral supportive counseling and case management
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $828K | $786K | $786K | — | — | $367K |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $2.2M | $81 | — | $325K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $210K |
| 2021 | $796K | $815K | $768K | — | — | $125K |
| 2020 | $469K | $501K | $475K | $293 | — | $119K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $83K from 10 charities:
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$30K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$19K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,930
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$7,500
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$3,117
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$1,500
- Kentville United Baptist Church$900
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$363
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$63
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions28
- Total compensation, all staff$518K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Melanie McCulloch (chairperson); Allan Galbraith (treasurer); Michele Sherman (secretary); Ann Greene (directrpor); Barry Hennigar (director); David Brewster (director); Angela Pound (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Portal Youth Outreach Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 853663664RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.