Centre de services scolaire des Hauts-Cantons
Publicly funded institution · Lac-Mégantic, Quebec · BN 142419423RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($140,356,697) as filed with the CRA.
Centre de services scolaire des Hauts-Cantons is a charitable organization based in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $141.8M in revenue and $140.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $39K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 843 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $26K in 2024, the largest being $15K to Fondation Louis-ST-Laurent. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Activités et sorties éducatives; acquisition de matériel; financement des parcs-écoles; activités méritas et galas; aide aux enfants moins bien nantis
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $141.8M | $140.4M | $126.6M | $317K | $18K | $14M |
| 2023 | $152.7M | $128.5M | $115M | $234K | $18K | $12.6M |
| 2022 | $120.9M | $115.3M | $104.1M | $196K | $32K | $11.4M |
| 2021 | $107.3M | $109.8M | $99.6M | $49K | $8,283 | $5.8M |
| 2020 | $100.3M | $99.5M | $89.1M | $244K | $6,549 | $8.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $26K to 5 qualified donees:
Received $39K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions843
- Total compensation, all staff$99.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Christopher Huard-Lamothe (vice-président); Maxime Paradis (président); Annie Hébert (administrateur); Kim Rousseau (administrateur); François Lessard (administrateur); Carole Bourgault (administrateur); Nadia Cloutier (administrateur); Daphnée Lebrun (administrateur); France Dumont (administrateur); Alexandre Dumas (administrateur); Cléo Guillemette (administrateur); Alexis Perrault (administrateur); Martin Thériault (administrateur); Luc Grandchamp (administrateur); Martial Gaudreau (directeur général).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre de services scolaire des Hauts-Cantons’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 142419423RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.