Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada - Nova Scotia Branch
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 751998493RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($145,708,828) as filed with the CRA.
Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada - Nova Scotia Branch is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $151.7M in revenue and $145.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $994K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 670 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Von has been leadingg home and community care in canada for over a century. We were amoung the first organizations in the country to offer home care and public health nursing and today we provide home and community support services to over 10 000 people every day across ontario and nova scotia. We are a highly trusted non-profit charity that works with our clients and their families employees volunteers and community partners to provide innovative clinical personal and social support to people in clinics vitually in congregate settings and in their homes and communities. Our mission is t…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $151.7M | $145.7M | $135.5M | $10K | $5,000 | $35.4M |
| 2023 | $148.1M | $138.7M | $129.7M | $54K | — | $31.9M |
| 2022 | $124.5M | $123M | $114.5M | $92K | — | $36.1M |
| 2021 | $121.5M | $116.1M | $107.6M | $162K | — | $29.9M |
| 2020 | $119.2M | $115M | $107.2M | $159K | — | $21.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $994K from 27 charities:
- Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada$287K
- The Sobey Foundation$224K
- Aberdeen Health Foundation Society$138K
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$69K
- The Windsor Foundation$57K
- River Philip Foundation$50K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$35K
- The DR. & MRS. H. E. Christie Community Foundation$25K
- Halifax Foundation$20K
- United Way of Cape Breton County$20K
- John and Elizabeth Godin Perpetual Charitable Trust$17K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- The Stevens Family Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$7,250
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$4,345
- The Margaret and Douglas Anderson Family Foundation Limited$3,500
- Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,035
- Walter C Sumner Foundation$800
- George F. Wade Foundation$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$280
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$234
- Port Williams Health Auxiliary$25
- United Baptist Church of Nuttby$25
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions670
- Total compensation, all staff$107.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cyndy De Giusti (chair of board); John Peddle (chair pension committee); Monique Porlier (vice-chair); Amy Lee (chair- quality risk & client…); Dafna Carr (chair hr committee); Marilyn Macdonald (director); Darrel Pink (director chair governance…); Cynthia Dorrington (chair-finance & audit…); Anna Babin (director); Frances Gregor (director); Peter Currie (past chair); Paul Alfred Maurice Glover (director); Neil Shah (director); Cathy Jordan (director); Maria Papadopoulos (director); Alison McKay (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Victorian Order of Nurses for Canada - Nova Scotia Branch’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 751998493RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.