Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design - Cape Breton School of Crafts
Publicly funded institution · Sydney, Nova Scotia · BN 106881808RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,379,043) as filed with the CRA.
Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design - Cape Breton School of Crafts is a charitable organization based in Sydney, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under arts. 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 $1.3M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $65K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $695K in 2020 to $1.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The centre serves the craft community of cape breton island from beginners and recreational practitioners to highly accomplished professionals offering instruction as well as resource and support services. The centre offers a variety of educational opportunities in both contemporary and traditional craft promotes and markets cape breton craft through exhibitions special events and a variety of traditional and social media platforms and operates a permanent year-round store-front gallery and gallery shop representing over 110 cape breton artisans.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.4M | — | — | — | $423K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $743K | — | — | $507K |
| 2022 | $744K | $736K | $569K | — | — | $411K |
| 2021 | $827K | $722K | $602K | $261 | $240 | $403K |
| 2020 | $695K | $685K | $557K | $1,021 | $250 | $310K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $65K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$639K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michelle Lahey (vice chair); Sylvie Gerbasi (chair); Kale O'Tool (treasurer); Paula Davis (director); Eileen Paul (director); Kelsey Watson (director); Nadia Bello (director); Andrew Skinner-Ryan (director); Keli Brewer (director); Kristi Fraser (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design - Cape Breton School of Crafts’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106881808RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.