West River Fire Department
Publicly funded institution · Stellarton, Nova Scotia · BN 134125319RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($183,272) as filed with the CRA.
West River Fire Department is a charitable organization based in Stellarton, 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 $264K in revenue and $183K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% 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 93% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
In its own words
Provides fire protection services to pictou county district 6&7
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $264K | $183K | $183K | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $318K | $319K | $314K | $3,054 | — | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $226K | $110K | $91K | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $213K | $92K | $91K | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $182K | $86K | $86K | — | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from West River Fire Department’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 134125319RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.