The Nova Scotia Youth Project Society
Publicly funded institution · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 865991913RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,166,978) as filed with the CRA.
The Nova Scotia Youth Project Society is a charitable organization based in Dartmouth, 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 $1.6M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 68% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $111K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $651K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Supporting lgbtq2+ youth mental health services public education school education gender and sexually alliance support. Youth leadership youth support youth social developmnet and recreation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.2M | $973K | — | — | $525K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $1.2M | — | — | $175K |
| 2022 | $909K | $999K | $795K | — | — | $325K |
| 2021 | $785K | $496K | $366K | — | — | $436K |
| 2020 | $651K | $622K | $450K | $234 | — | $127K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $111K from 14 charities:
- Mental Health Foundation of Nova Scotia$35K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- United Way of Cape Breton County$13K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$3,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,449
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$2,355
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,931
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,506
- First Baptist Church$800
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$710
- 14 Wing Combined Charities$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$200
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$113
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$975K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Clancey Rebecca (outgoing chair); Michelle Willow Christina Ladouceur (general member); Shannon Clancey (general member); Raine Sparkling (general member); Marcie Casler (general member); Ellis Pickersgill (co chair); Philip Campbell (treasurer); Jodie Holman (secretary); Michelle Munro (funding kcommittee chair); Krys Maher (chair of governance); Craig Bernard Besaw (co chair); Michelle Ladouceur (general member); Shannon Clancey (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Nova Scotia Youth Project Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865991913RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.