Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education
Publicly funded institution · Berwick, Nova Scotia · BN 872744339RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($415,124) as filed with the CRA.
Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education is a charitable organization based in Berwick, 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 $309K in revenue and $415K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations, 25% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $490K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 2,136 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $166.8M in 2020 to $309K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
To support the normal operations of public regional centre for education offering programs form pre-primary to grade 12 in 40 schools and two adult learning centres
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $309K | $415K | $415K | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $178K | $123K | $123K | — | — | $2M |
| 2022 | $178.1M | $176.8M | $154.8M | — | — | $11.9M |
| 2021 | $174.4M | $173.9M | $148.5M | — | — | $10.6M |
| 2020 | $166.8M | $165.2M | $145.1M | — | — | $10.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $490K from 16 charities:
- Supporting Enhancements for Educational Diversity (S.E.E.D.)$302K
- River Philip Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$37K
- Campaign for Kids Foundation$23K
- The Rotary Clubs of Kings County Charitable Foundation$20K
- BenefAction Foundation$19K
- The Robert P. Patterson Memorial Fund$8,503
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia$8,000
- E K M Health Foundation$7,060
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,048
- Hall's Harbour Baptist Church$2,000
- 14 Wing Combined Charities$1,500
- 14 Wing Combined Charities$1,500
- 14 Wing Combined Charities$1,500
- Bridgetown Baptist Church$1,105
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,042
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,136
- Total compensation, all staff$149.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Becky Druham (minister of educaiton); Dave Jones (reg exe director of education); Patrick Murphy (director of programs & service); Sarah Kenny (director of finance); Paul Lincoln (director of operations); Steve Snell (director of human resources).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872744339RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.