Walton Shore Fire Department Association
Publicly funded institution · Walton, Nova Scotia · BN 890743586RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($125,099) as filed with the CRA.
Walton Shore Fire Department Association is a charitable organization based in Walton, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under protective 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 $246K in revenue and $125K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5,288.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 86% of that peer group. 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 $127K in 2020 to $246K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Covid rules prevented majority of events. Normally we would hold weekly senior walking times / july weekend fundraising event / flea markets. All are 100% volunteer organized I facilitated
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $246K | $125K | $36K | $9,244 | — | $542K |
| 2023 | $180K | $116K | $45K | $13K | — | $396K |
| 2022 | $241K | $108K | — | $6,611 | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $134K | $152K | $200 | $6,337 | — | $928K |
| 2020 | $127K | $102K | — | $52K | — | $919K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $5,288 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Larry Beck (director); Raymond Ross (director); Martin Ross (director); Daniel Gavel (director); Danny Patterson (director/chief officer); Barb Taylor (director); William Thompson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Walton Shore Fire Department Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890743586RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.