The Debert Fire Brigade
Publicly funded institution · Debert, Nova Scotia · BN 119229581RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($340,664) as filed with the CRA.
The Debert Fire Brigade is a charitable organization based in Debert, 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 $328K in revenue and $341K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% 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 1% 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 $179K in 2020 to $328K in 2024.
In its own words
The brigade responds to fire motor vehicle medical and other public assistance emergency situations in our response area. The brigade also responds to mutual aid requests from neighboring fire brigades when requested.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $328K | $341K | $9,780 | — | — | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $326K | $284K | $23K | — | — | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $749K | $902K | $35K | — | — | $174K |
| 2021 | $232K | $269K | $233K | — | — | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $179K | $139K | $85K | — | — | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Debert Fire Brigade’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119229581RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.