Yarmouth Association for Community Residential Options
Publicly funded institution · Yarmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 136122116RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($22,153,044) as filed with the CRA.
Yarmouth Association for Community Residential Options is a charitable organization based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $22.2M in revenue and $22.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3,279.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 143 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The Association provides community based residential services for the mentally and physically disabled as well as life skill workshops and social enterprises designed to provide training and work opportunities for clients and employees that meet the Organization's mandate.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $22.2M | $22.2M | $20.1M | $0 | $0 | $813K |
| 2023 | $21.2M | $21.1M | $19.2M | — | — | $754K |
| 2022 | $17.4M | $17.5M | $1.8M | $0 | $0 | $632K |
| 2021 | $16.6M | $16.6M | — | $1,074 | — | $572K |
| 2020 | $15.9M | $16.1M | — | $29K | — | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3,279 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions143
- Total compensation, all staff$18.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karen Crossley (vice chair); Alan Hamilton (chair); Donald Gillis (director); Jean Paul Comeau (director); Nancy Lesser (secretary); Janet Sollows (director); Linda Sutton (director); Tasha Smith (director); Adam Axworthy (treasurer); Gail Kaiser (director); Marcel Muise (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Yarmouth Association for Community Residential Options’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136122116RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.