Cunard Street Children's Centre
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 106914591RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($895,623) as filed with the CRA.
Cunard Street Children's Centre is a charitable organization based in Halifax, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $825K in revenue and $896K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $140.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
It Provides daycare services for low income families.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $825K | $896K | $854K | — | — | -$72K |
| 2023 | $964K | $1M | $944K | — | — | -$1,446 |
| 2022 | $814K | $813K | $743K | — | — | $52K |
| 2021 | $585K | $593K | $519K | — | — | $51K |
| 2020 | $586K | $543K | $478K | — | — | $59K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $140 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$655K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Denise Watters (director); Rachel Farrall (chairperson); Amy Richardson (treasurer); Marika Paris (board member); Andrea MacNevin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cunard Street Children's Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106914591RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.