East Preston Early Learning Centres
Publicly funded institution · East Preston, Nova Scotia · BN 129542999RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,606,754) as filed with the CRA.
East Preston Early Learning Centres is a charitable organization based in East Preston, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $3.6M in revenue and $3.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 83% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $129K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $3.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The east preston day care centre provides ongoing programs with prenatal care after school private/subsidized literacy. Parent education and provides a family resource centre for the atlantic immigration program new hires dartmouth east outreach nurturing strong african nova scotian families (provinical parenting program) senior support
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $3.6M | $3.1M | — | — | $307K |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.3M | $2M | — | — | $324K |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | — | $325K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.5M | — | — | $328K |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.2M | — | — | $310K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $129K from 8 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$30K
- Black Family Foundation$10K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$10K
- Halifax Protestant Infants Foundation$6,000
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$3,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$509
- Canadahelps Canadon$36
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$2.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brenda Brooks (personnel chair); Dolly Williams (fundraisingchair); Michael Brownlow (chair); Penny Wills (family resource chair); Jennifer Stonehouse (secretary); Joe Colley (member at large); Rejean Willis (member at large); Moashella Shortte (member at large); Brittni Deveau (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from East Preston Early Learning Centres’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129542999RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.