Cape Breton Christian Education and Service Association
Publicly funded institution · Balls Creek, Nova Scotia · BN 856717053RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,848,068) as filed with the CRA.
Cape Breton Christian Education and Service Association is a charitable organization based in Balls Creek, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $2.8M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 17% from government. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $48K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (9 positions in that band). The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $2.8M in 2024.
In its own words
Purpose 1) establishment operations and oversight of alternative education initiatives promotion of excellence in education: operation of the 'munro academy' (trade name) a pre-primary to grade 12 independent day school munro academy offcer quality education from a christian world view. Munro academy provides as variety of academic courses including math science language arts history georgraphy bible physical education service and fine arts. Munro academy admits studnets of any race color national and ethnic origin and religious background. Munro academy provides a before and …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $2.8M | $2.5M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $1.9M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.7M | $1.4M | — | — | $590K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.4M | — | — | — | $890K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $3,104 | — | $642 | $818K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $48K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- $1–39,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cape Breton Christian Education and Service Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 856717053RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.