Horizon Achievement Centre Society
Publicly funded institution · Sydney, Nova Scotia · BN 108057670RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,180,564) as filed with the CRA.
Horizon Achievement Centre Society is a charitable organization based in Sydney, 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 $4.3M in revenue and $4.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $15K.
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 87% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $50 in 2024, the largest being $50 to UHN Foundation.
In its own words
The horizon achievement centre is a vocational training and employment service centre for adults with mental disabilities or those facing multiple barriers to employment residing within the cape breton regional municipality. Our mandate is to promote and enhance the independence choice and employability of those we serve. We accomplish this through training and employment opportunities in various on-site and off-site businesses services and programs all designed to enhance individual growth personal achievement and employment potential. We offer training and employment in the following disc…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $4.2M | $4.1M | $883 | $50 | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $3.9M | $3.7M | $3.6M | $11K | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $3M | $3M | $1,658 | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $2.9M | $2.9M | $1,164 | $245 | $950K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $50 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $15K from 6 charities:
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 positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$2.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Horizon Achievement Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108057670RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.