The Abercrombie Volunteer Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · New Glasgow, Nova Scotia · BN 119211035RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($84,711) as filed with the CRA.
The Abercrombie Volunteer Fire Department is a charitable organization based in New Glasgow, 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 September 30, 2024, it reported $220K in revenue and $85K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 63% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,344.
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 59% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $139K in 2020 to $220K in 2024.
In its own words
Provide firefighting services to community and assist other fire departments in surrounding area. Public education services to schools clubs and associations. Fire safety inspections.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $220K | $85K | $76K | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $218K | $70K | $69K | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $182K | $79K | $66K | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $159K | $63K | $55K | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $139K | $65K | $53K | — | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1,344 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Abercrombie Volunteer Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119211035RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.