St. Margaret's Bay Community Transportation Society
Publicly funded institution · Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia · BN 816753305RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($375,549) as filed with the CRA.
St. Margaret's Bay Community Transportation Society is a charitable organization based in Upper Tantallon, 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 $356K in revenue and $376K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $14K.
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 72% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Program purpose: to provide and/or to promote a community transportation service to meet the needs and improve the welfare of residents of the st. Margaret's bay area. St. Margaret's bay community transportation society (smbcts) operating under the name bayrides is a community-based transportation service that provide affordable accessible door-to-door transportation in the real st. Margaret's bay catchment area of halifax regional municipality nova scoita with special focus on seniors and individuals who are marginalized financially or who have mobility or medical issues. The smbcts prov…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $356K | $376K | $347K | — | — | $298K |
| 2023 | $344K | $346K | $315K | — | — | $318K |
| 2022 | $198K | $292K | $247K | — | — | $265K |
| 2021 | $208K | $248K | $216K | — | — | $214K |
| 2020 | $278K | $334K | $270K | — | — | $163K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $14K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$248K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Benjamin Corkum (director); Ian Shawcross (director); Mary Agnes Moar (president); Cynthia Weahterston (secretary); Meghan Maher (vice-president); Neil Everton (director); Trevor Magarvey (director); Kevin Alexander (director); Megan Harris (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from St. Margaret's Bay Community Transportation Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 816753305RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.