Garden City Nursery School Inc.
Publicly funded institution · ST Catharines, Ontario · BN 101943157RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($926,736) as filed with the CRA.
Garden City Nursery School Inc. is a charitable organization based in ST Catharines, Ontario, 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $927K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $500.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 82% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 96% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $698K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Provide Montessori Education for pre-school children 3-6 years old and toddlers 18 months to 3 years old.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $927K | $891K | $6 | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $787K | $752K | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $822K | $708K | $702K | $5,667 | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $813K | $651K | $621K | $133 | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $698K | $574K | $516K | $1,729 | $0 | $980K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $500 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$631K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alison Sheehan-Paolone (president); David Yip (treasurer); Jenn Reid (secretary); Kyle Paul (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Garden City Nursery School Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 101943157RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.