Acadia University
Publicly funded institution · Wolfville, Nova Scotia · BN 106681893RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($125,300,000) as filed with the CRA.
Acadia University 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 $124.8M in revenue and $125.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from government. In 2024, 50 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 528 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The organization is a post secondary educational institution whose activities include instructing and research. The institution also provides the option for students to live in a residence room with meals.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $124.8M | $125.3M | $112.3M | $933K | — | $137.7M |
| 2023 | $116.9M | $113.8M | $103.9M | $565K | — | $124.7M |
| 2022 | $112M | $104.5M | $95.4M | $532K | — | $119M |
| 2021 | $108.7M | $95.4M | $86.7M | $902K | — | $106.8M |
| 2020 | $114M | $104.9M | $89.9M | $1.2M | — | $77.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.1M from 50 charities:
- Faye and David Huestis Family Foundation Inc.$385K
- Faye and David Huestis Family Foundation Inc.$250K
- Arthur Irving Academy Foundation$227K
- Trust Under Will of F C Manning$215K
- Ducks Unlimited Canada - Canards Illimites Canada$165K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- The David and Faye Sobey Foundation$100K
- The J.T. Clark Family Foundation Inc.$100K
- BenefAction Foundation$100K
- Walker Wood Foundation$63K
- The African United Baptist Association of Nova Scotia Incorporated$56K
- Scholarship Trust Fund under the will of Marial Laura Morse Mosher$53K
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$46K
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$39K
- The Bert and Shari Frizzell Family Foundation$25K
- Abundance Canada$20K
- Harrison McCain Foundation$20K
- Dr. Jack and Fanor Hilton and Sons Foundation$15K
- Hugh & Linda Brown Educational Foundation$15K
- Aqueduct Foundation$15K
- Trust Under the Will of Charlotte Elizabeth Baker for Acadiauniversity Wolfville Nova Scotia$14K
- Supporting Enhancements for Educational Diversity (S.E.E.D.)$10K
- Harrison McCain Foundation$10K
- Wesley M Nicol Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,755
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9995 positions
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions528
- Total compensation, all staff$69.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mark Adam (member); Jeff Banks (member); Bruce Galloway (university chancellor); Jeffrey Hennessy (university president); Christine Luckasavitch (member); Allan Macdonald (member); Sadie McAlear (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Acadia University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106681893RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.