South Shore Health Foundation
Public foundation · Bridgewater, Nova Scotia · BN 119158483RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,993,823) as filed with the CRA.
South Shore Health Foundation is a public foundation based in Bridgewater, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.9M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $663K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Financially support the fishermen's memorial hospital and the south shore regional hospital plus associated sites within lunenburg county by raising funds to enhance and improve the quality of health care services and equipment.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.9M | $2M | $436K | $73K | $1.1M | $23M |
| 2023 | $5.7M | $3.2M | $371K | $161K | $531K | $20.1M |
| 2022 | $5.7M | $2.1M | $327K | $224K | $1.2M | $17.6M |
| 2021 | $4.6M | $1.6M | — | $257K | $989K | $14M |
| 2020 | -$177K | $2.3M | — | $201K | $1.7M | $11M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $663K from 22 charities:
- South Shore Regional Hospital Auxiliary$256K
- BenefAction Foundation$183K
- The Robert Steele Foundation$50K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$45K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia$23K
- Fishermen's Memorial Hospital Auxiliary$15K
- South Shore Regional Hospital Auxiliary$15K
- J and W Murphy Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- The Rosewater Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Isles Foundation Incorporated$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,648
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,492
- Butterfield Family Foundation$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,025
- United Way of Greater Toronto$833
- Petite Riviere Pastoral Charge$350
- Emmanuel Baptist Church of Parkdale - Maplewood$300
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$294
- Bridgewater Senior Citizens Group$25
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2
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
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$482K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Eric Whynot (director); Heather Robertson (director); Tina Grace (secretary); Nick Saunders (past chair); Ben Anderson (director); Janice Tanner-Ernst (chair); Jeff Sabean (treasurer); Benjamin Carver (vice chair); Catherine Lynn Farrell (director); Pam Kennedy (director); Gregory McNally (director); Gretchen Gerhardt (director); Mildred Royer (director); Thomas Sullivan (director); Erica Kenny (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from South Shore Health Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119158483RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.