Valley Mills & District Volunteer Fire Dept
Publicly funded institution · River Denys, Nova Scotia · BN 132796723RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($65,412) as filed with the CRA.
Valley Mills & District Volunteer Fire Dept is a charitable organization based in River Denys, 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 $121K in revenue and $65K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% 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 11% 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 $73K in 2020 to $121K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Fire response services of any kind medical response comfort center
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $121K | $65K | $38K | — | — | $731K |
| 2023 | $159K | $72K | $49K | — | — | $675K |
| 2022 | $114K | $48K | $48K | — | — | $588K |
| 2021 | $87K | $49K | $48K | — | — | $522K |
| 2020 | $73K | $33K | $26K | — | — | $464K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Justin Usher (fire chief); Barry Madill (deputy fire chief); Stephen Cummings (president); Marion Sauer (secretary); Michael Smith (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Valley Mills & District Volunteer Fire Dept’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132796723RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.