Acadia Divinity College
Publicly funded institution · Wolfville, Nova Scotia · BN 118776723RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,202,446) as filed with the CRA.
Acadia Divinity College 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, 2024, it reported $3.5M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from donations, 21% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 87 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $258K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 8% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
The primary mission or purpose of Acadia Divinity College is to prepare ministers missionaries and other religious workers for Christian Service by providing theological education and training for specific forms of ministry affiliated or related to the life of the church military urban and overseas ministries.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $3.2M | $2M | $311K | — | $27M |
| 2023 | $3M | $2.9M | $1.9M | $305K | — | $22.3M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $2.8M | $2.8M | $287K | — | $21.4M |
| 2021 | $2.9M | $2.7M | $1.8M | $242K | — | $18.9M |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $2.8M | $1.8M | $267K | — | $17M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $258K from 87 charities:
- Weston Family Foundation$65K
- Canadian Baptists of Atlantic Canada$49K
- Trust Under the Will of Evelyn P. Matheson$33K
- Pugwash Memorial Baptist Church$20K
- Moncton First United Baptist Church$12K
- Kentville United Baptist Church$5,208
- Brunswick Street Baptist Church Ltd.$4,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,716
- Middleton Baptist Church$3,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- New Minas Baptist Church$2,500
- Springfield West - O'Leary Baptist Church Inc.$2,500
- The Journey Church Inc.$2,400
- First Baptist Church$2,351
- The Crossing Church Inc.$2,000
- Rusagonis Baptist Church Inc.$2,000
- Douglas Baptist Church Inc.$2,000
- Immanuel United Baptist Church$2,000
- Oromocto United Baptist Church$1,500
- Hillside Baptist Church Inc.$1,500
- Centreville Baptist Church$1,500
- Kingsboro Baptist Church Inc.$1,250
- Grace Memorial Baptist Church Inc.$1,250
- Jacksonville United Baptist Church$1,200
- Petitcodiac Baptist Church$1,142
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$2.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anna Robbins (ex-officio); Stan Thomas (trustee); Perry Hanley (trustee); Greg Cox (trustee); Airdrie Miller (trustee); Mark Jelley (trustee); Tom Rice (trustee); Dan Green (trustee); Helen Chan (trustee); Cora Tolliver (trustee-appointment); Garnet Wheaton (trustee); Jeff Hennessy (ex-officio); Kathy Watt (trustee); Renee MacVicar (ex-officio); Andrea Anderson (trustee); Susan Crouse-Crompton (trustee); Mercy Mutale Motey (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Acadia Divinity College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118776723RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.