Yarmouth Life Skills for Disabled Adults Association
Publicly funded institution · Yarmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 829229756RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($584,425) as filed with the CRA.
Yarmouth Life Skills for Disabled Adults Association is a charitable organization based in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under supportive 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $527K in revenue and $584K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $53K.
Compared with 739 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Enhancing social and life skills through small groups or individualized programming provide community integration opportunities through leisure and community based services and to recognize and address individual accomplishments and needs through the effective partnering of internal and external agencies.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $527K | $584K | $513K | $1,129 | — | $153K |
| 2023 | $502K | $479K | $478K | $1,257 | $0 | $211K |
| 2022 | $367K | $355K | $313K | $781 | $0 | $247K |
| 2021 | $468K | $367K | $324K | $261 | — | $176K |
| 2020 | $365K | $309K | $276K | $1,920 | — | $75K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $53K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$415K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nadine Doucette-Melanson (secretary); Denise Ouellette (director); David Ollie (director); Sherry Robertson (executive director); Carol Bojarski (director); Robert Shaw (director); Sara Amon (treasurer); Karen Gaudet (director); Rhonda Zasitko (chairperson).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Yarmouth Life Skills for Disabled Adults Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829229756RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.