Sydney Mines Community Heritage Society
Publicly funded institution · Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia · BN 879269629RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($79,646) as filed with the CRA.
Sydney Mines Community Heritage Society is a charitable organization based in Sydney Mines, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 $73K in revenue and $80K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 521 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $300 in 2020, the largest being $300 to Combined Christmas Cheer Committee of Sydney Mines. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $117K in 2020 to $73K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Heritage Centre tours for adults and children; collecting and cataloguing fossils for display and research; conducting educational programs in the public school system regarding the heritage of the community; operating the fossil museum; Geomatic mapping information available; Fossil museum tours
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $73K | $80K | $77K | — | $0 | $84K |
| 2023 | $88K | $96K | $92K | — | — | $91K |
| 2022 | $105K | $86K | $83K | — | — | $98K |
| 2021 | $110K | $94K | $91K | — | — | $78K |
| 2020 | $117K | $109K | $106K | — | $300 | $63K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Granted $300 to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$13K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James Romeo (chairperson); Lloyd Bailey (vice chairperson); Maude Bailey (secretary); Gary MacKeigan (treasurer); John Scott (director); Kathy Scott (director); Jason Loxton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sydney Mines Community Heritage Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 879269629RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.