Riverview Enhanced Living Society
Publicly funded institution · Bridgewater, Nova Scotia · BN 801239922RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,492,378) as filed with the CRA.
Riverview Enhanced Living Society is a charitable organization based in Bridgewater, 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 $10.5M in revenue and $10.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $192.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 0% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 55 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.8M in 2020 to $10.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
To provide services care and housing for adults with special needs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.5M | $10.5M | $845 | — | — | $824K |
| 2023 | $7.9M | $7.9M | $6.7M | — | — | $838K |
| 2022 | $7.8M | $7.7M | $6.7M | — | — | $829K |
| 2021 | $7.6M | $7.8M | $7.1M | — | — | $790K |
| 2020 | $6.8M | $7M | $6.4M | — | — | $615K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $192 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions55
- Total compensation, all staff$8.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Robart (chair); Cathy Maclean (vice chair); John Biddle (treasurer); Arthur Young (board member); Ethel Smith (board member); Craig Collins (board member); Debra Gowan (board member); Helen Croft (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Riverview Enhanced Living Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 801239922RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.