Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship - ACSBE
Publicly funded institution · Wolfville, Nova Scotia · BN 127411296RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2021-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($705,993) as filed with the CRA.
Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship - ACSBE is a charitable organization based in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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, 2021, it reported $683K in revenue and $706K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 1,552 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
We provide advisory services to business owners/start-ups strategic planning for nfps professional development programs career services student programming incubation & innovation services provide older worker training and community development. We also offer a new e-cert program (entrepreneurship certificate) more customized two-day training programs like financial analysis business plan analysis etc.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2021
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | $683K | $706K | $570K | — | — | $139K |
| 2020 | $814K | $791K | $656K | — | — | $161K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$615K
Schedule 3 of its 2021 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2021)
Chris Atwood (secretary); Jeffery Banks; Amelia Bishop; Glyn Bissix (vice chair); Chris Callbeck; Craig Collins (chair); Paul Callaghan; Fred Morley (past chair); Ari Najarian; Michael Peters; Anna Redden.
As listed on its 2021 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Acadia Centre for Social and Business Entrepreneurship - ACSBE’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 127411296RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.