Happy Face Nursery School (winchester & District)
Publicly funded institution · South Mountain, Ontario · BN 888112943RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,854,755) as filed with the CRA.
Happy Face Nursery School (winchester & District) is a charitable organization based in South Mountain, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $4.1M in revenue and $3.9M 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 $600.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 107 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $4.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Toddler pre-school-18 months to 6 years of age infant program- 0 to 18 months before and after school program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $3.9M | $3.7M | $11K | — | $838K |
| 2023 | $3.6M | $3.5M | $3.4M | $11K | — | $601K |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.9M | $2.6M | $585 | — | $573K |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $2,848 | — | $852K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | — | $692K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $600 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
- $40,000–79,99921 positions
- $1–39,99978 positions
- Permanent full-time positions107
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joseph Brennan (president); Lisa Murphy (secretary); Nicole Lewandowski (vice president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Happy Face Nursery School (winchester & District)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888112943RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.