L'Arche Cape Breton Society
Publicly funded institution · Iron Mines, Nova Scotia · BN 130806227RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,170,346) as filed with the CRA.
L'Arche Cape Breton Society is a charitable organization based in Iron Mines, 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 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $265K.
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 84% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (9 positions in that band). The charity reported 45 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Providing assisted living accomadations and social enterprise programs to individuals with disabilities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.3M | $4.2M | $4M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.6M | $3.4M | — | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $3.1M | $2.8M | — | — | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $3.4M | $3.1M | $3.1M | — | — | $2.3M |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $2.8M | $2.8M | — | — | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $265K from 18 charities:
- The Ark-Community Initiatives Society$135K
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$50K
- John Carl Macisaac Foundation$25K
- The Harry E Foster Charitable Foundation$15K
- The Windsor Foundation$15K
- River Philip Foundation$8,000
- CGC Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,263
- The O'Neill Foundation Inc.$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,233
- Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent$1,000
- The Retired Teachers Foundation$785
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$670
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$520
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$300
- United Way of Colchester County$90
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1
- Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc.—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions45
- Total compensation, all staff$3.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mukthar Limpao (executive director/owner); Leo McCann (director); Charlotte Miller (director); Charles Robicheau (director); Carol Urquhart (director); Marcel Doucet (treasurer); Sheila Cannon (director); Fiona Macleod (director); Elliot Fraser (director); Judity Hart (director); Roderick Campbell (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from L'Arche Cape Breton Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130806227RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.