The Ship's Company Society
Charitable organization · Parrsboro, Nova Scotia · BN 119254019RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($574,354) as filed with the CRA.
The Ship's Company Society is a charitable organization based in Parrsboro, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $535K in revenue and $574K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 39% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $108K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Ship's Company Theatre's 2023 season held two large mainstage productions our music series two presentations our drama camps and our BIPOC playwright residency. Our mainstage productions hired 32 workers residing in Atlantic Canada including actors directors stage managers technicians crew carpenters and designers (set costume lighting sound). Crypthand by Lily Falk ran for 2 weeks with 12 performances and was about the imagined early life of Anne Lister including 2SLGBTQIA+ themes. Downed Hearts by Catherine Banks was a world-premiere and ran for 2 weeks with 12 performances a…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $535K | $574K | $368K | $16K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $390K | $457K | $282K | $6,692 | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $442K | $485K | $332K | $1,746 | $0 | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $240K | $361K | — | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $361K | $459K | $354K | $2,423 | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $108K from 11 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- River Philip Foundation$13K
- The DR. & MRS. H. E. Christie Community Foundation$10K
- J and W Murphy Foundation$10K
- RBC Foundation$5,000
- The David and Faye Sobey Foundation$5,000
- Craig Foundation$5,000
- Black Family Foundation$4,000
- WCPD Foundation$1,000
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$101K
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lisa Smith (board chair); Lori Kyle (board secretary); Martha Irving (director); Rena Kossatz (director); Carlos Serratos (director); Regan Maloney (director); Andrea Cunningham (treasurer); Jade Atkins (secretary); Cameron McKay (director); Heather Scott (director); Lenore Zann (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Ship's Company Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119254019RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.