Strait Area Transit Co-Operative Ltd.
Publicly funded institution · Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia · BN 854109394RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($547,335) as filed with the CRA.
Strait Area Transit Co-Operative Ltd. is a charitable organization based in Port Hawkesbury, 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 $468K in revenue and $547K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $48.
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 76% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $291K in 2020 to $468K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Provide an accessible and affordable public transportation service to the rural communities of the strait area.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $468K | $547K | $517K | — | — | $294K |
| 2023 | $613K | $417K | $410K | — | — | $374K |
| 2022 | $301K | $373K | $364K | — | — | $118K |
| 2021 | $430K | $262K | $252K | — | — | $190K |
| 2020 | $291K | $619K | $589K | — | $0 | $353K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $48 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$212K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hughie Macdougall (board member); Melanie Sampson (chair); Amanda Mom Bourguette (director); Blaine Macquarrie (director); Claude Poirier (director); Kara-Leigh Burke (director); John Maclellon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Strait Area Transit Co-Operative Ltd.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 854109394RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.