Halifax Regional Centre for Education
Publicly funded institution · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 883259236RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($770,049,484) as filed with the CRA.
Halifax Regional Centre for Education is a charitable organization based in Dartmouth, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $773.5M in revenue and $770M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $349K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 6,772 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Normal operations of a public school system offering programs from pre-primary through grade 12 in more than 139 schools throughout halifax regional municipality.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $773.5M | $770M | $734.6M | — | — | $9.6M |
| 2023 | $716.7M | $726.7M | $700M | — | — | $6.1M |
| 2022 | $682.4M | $681.5M | $657.1M | — | — | $16.1M |
| 2021 | $652.2M | $649.4M | $626.1M | — | — | $15.3M |
| 2020 | $606.8M | $610.1M | $588.9M | — | — | $12.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $349K from 16 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$116K
- Fine Arts Parents' Association$69K
- Halifax Youth Foundation$42K
- Brian Dickie Scholarship Fund$41K
- Halifax Association for Improving the Conditions of the Poor$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- BenefAction Foundation$9,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,000
- ST. Andrew's Presbyterian Church$4,000
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$3,565
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$2,500
- Kings Church$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,701
- ST Luke's United Church$1,360
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 positions6,772
- Total compensation, all staff$636.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Minister of Eecd (minister); Deputy Minister of Eecd (deputy minister); Meaghen Powell (director financial services); Steven Gallagher (regional executive director of).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Halifax Regional Centre for Education’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 883259236RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.