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Registered as SPECIAL OLYMPICS SOCIETY OF NOVA SCOTIA
$1,427,131
$1,239,573
It took in $187,558 more than it spent, and retained the difference. Neither is good or bad on its own — charities hold reserves, run capital campaigns, and spend down endowments, and the return does not say which.
| Year | Money in | Money out |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | $1.1M | $976K |
| 2018 | $1.0M | $984K |
| 2019 | $1.1M | $825K |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.0M |
| 2021 | $969K | $546K |
| 2022 | $990K | $590K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.0M |
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.2M |
| What it went on | CRA line | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charitable programs | 5000 | $436,633 | 35.2% |
| Management and administration | 5010 | $500,673 | 40.4% |
| Fundraising | 5020 | $251,063 | 20.3% |
| Not allocated to a line | $51,204 | 4.1% | |
| Total expenditures excluding gifts | 4950 | $1,239,573 |
The reported lines do not add up to the total. The difference is spending the charity did not assign to any of them — the CRA return treats these lines as optional components of the total, not as a complete breakdown of it.
Special Olympics Society of Nova Scotia reported spending 35.2% of its expenditure on charitable programs. Among the 117 charities registered under complementary or alternative health care that reported the same line for 2024, the middle of the range is 86.6%, and this charity sits at the 10th percentile — below 90% of them.
That is a position in a distribution, not a verdict. Charities allocate costs differently on the same form, and a lower share often reflects how a return was filled in rather than how the money was spent. The cohort counts only charities that reported this line — about a quarter of the register does not, and they are not in the comparison at all.
Canadian charities report how many of their ten highest-paid positions fall in each pay band. Not who they are, and not what any one person earns — the return does not collect that, and it cannot be worked out from what follows.
5 positions reported in total. The form asks only about the ten highest-paid, so a smaller number means the charity reported fewer compensated positions than that.
| Permanent full-time positions | 300 | 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Part-time or part-year employees | 370 | 1 |
| Total spent on all compensation | 390 | $425,817 |
Charities that hold significant property not used in their programs must spend a minimum amount each year — the disbursement quota. Special Olympics Society of Nova Scotia files this schedule; most charities do not.
| Required to spend | 840 | $110,899 |
|---|---|---|
| Counted toward the quota | 860 | $436,633 |
| Difference | 865 | $325,734 above the quota |
Charities may also carry a disbursement excess forward for five years, so a single year is a slice of a longer calculation rather than the whole of it.
The most recent return this charity has filed — not its position today. Charities have six months to file and the CRA publishes annually.
These are the charity’s own figures. A surprising figure is at least as likely to be a filing error as a finding.
This site cannot confirm whether 119159309 RR 0001 is registered today. Its filings are public open data; current registration status is not, and the CRA’s own listing is the only authoritative source. Check this charity on the CRA Charities Listing.
Source: Canada Revenue Agency — List of charities (T3010). Data current as of 2024 filing year. Filed by the charity and not audited by the CRA. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada.