Salmon River Volunteer Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · Salmon River, Nova Scotia · BN 892406588RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($153,885) as filed with the CRA.
Salmon River Volunteer Fire Department is a charitable organization based in Salmon River, 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 $160K in revenue and $154K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $480.
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 79% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 82% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $273K in 2020 to $160K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Provide fire services and medical first response to the surrounding communities comfort centre for emo. The department also provides facilities for communities events and it provides education services to the community on fire prevention.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $160K | $154K | $146K | $7,442 | — | $295K |
| 2023 | $154K | $168K | $163K | $4,811 | $150 | $289K |
| 2022 | $119K | $143K | $132K | $7,959 | — | $281K |
| 2021 | $114K | $84K | $55K | — | — | $304K |
| 2020 | $273K | $58K | — | — | — | $274K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $480 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tony Van Den Broek (president); Julee Pearson (treasurer); James Pearson (vice-president); Wanda Rodgerson Fuller (secretary); Devon Long (fire chief).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Salmon River Volunteer Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892406588RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.