Cape - Centre for Academic and Personal Excellence Institute
Publicly funded institution · Medicine Hat, Alberta · BN 140650771RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,913,704) as filed with the CRA.
Cape - Centre for Academic and Personal Excellence Institute is a charitable organization based in Medicine Hat, Alberta, 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 $4M in revenue and $3.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $480.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 38 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $1,500 in 2024, the largest being $750 to Root Cellar Food and Wellness Hub.
In its own words
K-9 education: Alberta education programs of study Pre-reading & Pre-math (K) Literacy and Numeracy (1-9) Integrated Setting for Enrichment Education (ISEE) (4-9) One-on-one Computing (4-9) Community Partnerships (1-9) Individual Personalized Programs (K-9).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4M | $3.9M | $3.7M | $3,856 | $1,500 | $6.9M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.9M | $3.7M | $5,213 | $2,053 | $7.1M |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $3.7M | $3.5M | $3,167 | $3,868 | $7.4M |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $3.3M | $3.1M | $7,094 | — | $7.5M |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $2.8M | $2.6M | $3,017 | — | $7.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,500 to 2 qualified donees:
- Root Cellar Food and Wellness Hub$750
- Medicine Hat Women's Shelter Society$750
Received $480 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions38
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8M
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 - Centre for Academic and Personal Excellence Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140650771RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.