Senior Wheels Association
Publicly funded institution · Bridgewater, Nova Scotia · BN 131666489RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($305,175) as filed with the CRA.
Senior Wheels Association 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 $405K in revenue and $305K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $28K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $40K in 2020 to $405K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The mission of lunenburg county wheels is that everyone deserves to have access to transportation. Our goal is to ensure that residents have a reliable form of transportation to help you get to appointments work shopping and recreation. We are here to help you stay connected to your community. Lunenburg county wheels is growing to provide a pre-booked door-to-door service to areas throughout western lunenburg county: the municipality of the district of lunenburg bridgewater and the towns of lunenburg and mahone bay.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $405K | $305K | $295K | — | — | $321K |
| 2023 | $130K | $122K | $119K | — | — | $221K |
| 2022 | $39K | $53K | $53K | — | — | $213K |
| 2021 | $8,421 | $45K | $45K | — | — | $227K |
| 2020 | $40K | $53K | $53K | — | — | $264K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $28K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$116K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dawn Zwicker (director); Brian Carver (director); Eric Hustvedt (director); Melba Lantz (director); Frank Zwicker (past president); Jerome Tanner (president); Harry Beach (treasurer); Peter Wagner (secretary); Ewart Morse (vice-president); Diane Lutley (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Senior Wheels Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131666489RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.