Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education
Publicly funded institution · Sydney, Nova Scotia · BN 897171641RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($198,467,868) as filed with the CRA.
Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education is a charitable organization based in Sydney, 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 $198.5M in revenue and $198.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5,385.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. The charity reported 2,237 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $198.5M | $198.5M | $187.6M | — | — | $8.4M |
| 2023 | $186M | $183.6M | $175.9M | — | — | $8.3M |
| 2022 | $175.9M | $174.1M | $166.8M | — | — | $7.9M |
| 2021 | $178.1M | $173.3M | $168M | — | — | $7.8M |
| 2020 | $174.4M | $172.2M | $165.2M | — | — | $6.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5,385 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions2,237
- Total compensation, all staff$165.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Susan Kelley (regional executive director); Nancy Dove (director of financial service).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cape Breton-Victoria Regional Centre for Education’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897171641RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.