The Brookfield Fire Commissioners
Publicly funded institution · Brookfield, Nova Scotia · BN 119217461RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($279,836) as filed with the CRA.
The Brookfield Fire Commissioners is a public foundation based in Brookfield, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $270K in revenue and $280K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
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 92% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $268K in 2024, the largest being $268K to Brookfield Fire & Emergency Services. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The brookfield fire commission is a body set up by an act of the province of nova scotia that organized the brookfield fire department. The commission ensures the brookfield fire department has funds to carry out its obligations which includes charity work and emergency services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $270K | $280K | $11K | — | $268K | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $422K | $330K | $16K | — | $314K | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $385K | $159K | $19K | — | $140K | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $358K | $295K | $19K | — | $276K | $837K |
| 2020 | $349K | $361K | $20K | — | $341K | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $268K to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hugh Matheson (director); Terry Canning (chairperson); Philip McMullin (director); David Cross (treasurer); Roderick Nielsen (director/fire chief).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Brookfield Fire Commissioners’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119217461RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.