Second Stage Housing Association of Dartmouth
Charitable organization · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 119298693RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,176,988) as filed with the CRA.
Second Stage Housing Association of Dartmouth is a charitable organization based in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 29% from donations, 30% from government, 21% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $536K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Alice housing is a non-profit housing program which offers a safe non-judgemental environment for women leaving abusive relationships (with or without children) who have identified their own need for ongoing support and counseling. Alice housing can provide secure and affordable housing for up to one year. Women living at alice housing are encouraged to take charge of their lives and develop to their fullest potential. Alice housing offers women and their children an opportunity to overcome the devastating effects of abuse to deal with the past to address the present and plan
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $968K | $5,433 | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1M | $838K | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $980K | $784K | — | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $988K | $829K | $707K | — | — | $950K |
| 2020 | — | $650K | $529K | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $536K from 29 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$112K
- Canadahelps Canadon$112K
- TJX Canada Foundation$50K
- Toronto Foundation$50K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$26K
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$22K
- The McCain Foundation$20K
- The Windsor Foundation$20K
- Halifax Protestant Infants Foundation$16K
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$13K
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canada$10K
- The George W. Wilson and Teresa Madelyn (merriam) Wilson Foundation$10K
- The Canadian Tilling Foundation$10K
- Air Canada Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$10K
- Flemming Charitable Foundation$8,000
- Halifax Youth Foundation$8,000
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor$5,000
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$3,245
- Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent$3,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,935
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$1,481
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,310
- The Georgina Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$668K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2022)
Sarah Simpson (past chair); Donna Gallant (secretary); Lorie Collins (director); Tanya Colbo (director); Daniel Mackenzie (director); Sara Colburne (director); Erin Blay (director); Heather Byrne (executive director); Erika Hildebrand (director); Stephanie Walker (director); Anna Marenick (director); Belinda Smith (director); Olivia Macdonald (treasurer).
As listed on its 2022 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Second Stage Housing Association of Dartmouth’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119298693RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.