Sherbrooke & Area Volunteer Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia · BN 888627460RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($93,152) as filed with the CRA.
Sherbrooke & Area Volunteer Fire Department is a charitable organization based in Sherbrooke, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $104K in revenue and $93K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2020, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $1,000.
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 92% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
In its own words
Fire protection prevention and emergency response in District 1 and 4 of the Municipality of the District of St. Mary's Guysborough County Nova Scotia. Also providing mutual aid and response in surrounding areas.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $104K | $93K | $92K | — | $584 | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $85K | $82K | $81K | — | $562 | $1M |
| 2022 | $51K | $57K | $56K | — | $1,358 | $958K |
| 2021 | $58K | $41K | $40K | — | $160 | $943K |
| 2020 | $70K | $68K | $67K | — | $744 | $873K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Received $1,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sherbrooke & Area Volunteer Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888627460RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.