Souls Harbour Rescue Mission
Charitable organization · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 816097067RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($6,408,467) as filed with the CRA.
Souls Harbour Rescue Mission is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $7.8M in revenue and $6.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 38% from donations, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 74 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.5M.
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 22% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 54 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.6M in 2020 to $7.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Operation of community drop in centre providing food clothing and shelter to people struggling with food and housing insecurity. Provision of live-in addictions recovery programming. Provision of training opportunities for people with barriers to employment. Operation of social enterprise for new and ongoing programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.8M | $6.4M | $4.8M | $557K | — | $5.9M |
| 2023 | $5.7M | $4.7M | $3M | $528K | — | $4.7M |
| 2022 | $4.7M | $3.6M | $3.1M | $374K | — | $3.8M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $2.9M | $2.5M | $297K | — | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2M | $1.6M | $295K | — | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.5M from 74 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$866K
- Canadahelps Canadon$866K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$141K
- The Windsor Foundation$100K
- Walker Wood Foundation$100K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$76K
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$62K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$29K
- Aqueduct Foundation$28K
- The Holdsworth Foundation$25K
- River Philip Foundation$25K
- Cape Breton Christian Fellowship Church$18K
- Halifax Protestant Infants Foundation$10K
- Godin Family Foundation$10K
- The Swinamer Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$9,500
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$7,500
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$7,491
- Saint John's School of Alberta Legacy Foundation$5,300
- Deep Water Church$5,000
- South Shore Regional Hospital Auxiliary$5,000
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$5,000
- Black Family Foundation$5,000
- The Redeemed Christian Church of God-Jesus House Halifax$4,800
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$4,560
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions54
- Total compensation, all staff$3.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Foster Mackenzie (director); Sara Lewis (director); David Dwyer (chair); Jude Abbey (director); Jan Jenson (vice chair); James Cooper (director); Samuel Satish (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Souls Harbour Rescue Mission’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 816097067RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.