Sackville Lakes Park and Trails Association
Publicly funded institution · Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia · BN 871654661RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($668,824) as filed with the CRA.
Sackville Lakes Park and Trails Association is a charitable organization based in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $646K in revenue and $669K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $27K.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $24K in 2020 to $646K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
We performed regular maintenance on the trails such as repairing damage from washouts after heavy rainfalls removing dangerous fallen trees and cleaning up after vandals. We continued to arrange and supervise garbage removal washroom cleaning services and doggie bag purchase and dispensing. We maintained our website replaced old signage researched and applied for new funding opportunities. The Board of Directors held online monthly meetings. We paid our annual dues to the Nova Scotia Trails Federation purchased insurance from them and additional Directors and Officers Liability coverage …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $646K | $669K | $666K | $0 | $0 | $136K |
| 2023 | $450K | $374K | $371K | $0 | $0 | $159K |
| 2022 | $51K | $56K | $52K | — | $0 | $83K |
| 2021 | $26K | $21K | — | — | $250 | $88K |
| 2020 | $24K | $26K | $24K | — | $0 | $82K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $27K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dan Baur (director); Shane O`Neil (co-chair); Catherine Baur (treasurer); Debbie O`Leary (director); Gord Kyle (director); Theresa Scratch (secretary); Dan Jennings (director); Matthew Spicer (co-chair); David Comeau (director); David Hughes (director); Janey Hughes (director); James Coleman (director); Melissa Boland (director); Bruce Batstone (director); Stephen Annis (director); Troy Hall (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sackville Lakes Park and Trails Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 871654661RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.