Madagascar School Project Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Cornwall, Ontario · BN 857467625RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($299,169) as filed with the CRA.
Madagascar School Project Inc. is a charitable organization based in Cornwall, 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 $352K in revenue and $299K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $219K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 0% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 81 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
During 2023 we continued to grow our Tenaquip school in Madagascar. We now have over 776 students and 86 staff. We provide each student and staff member with a warm meal each day to ensure that they receive at least one healthy meal a day. We also serve breakfast to many children students and elders at times of the year when food is scarce. We grow our own gardens and rice fields to supplement our feeding program and also raise chickens and pigs to provide protein. We have a rice mill that we operate to mill our own rice we grow our own rice in rice fields that we have purchased. We provi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $352K | $299K | — | $18K | $0 | $356K |
| 2023 | $288K | $300K | $246K | $25K | — | $302K |
| 2022 | $219K | $265K | $199K | $18K | — | $314K |
| 2021 | $232K | $206K | $182K | — | — | $365K |
| 2020 | $237K | $192K | $178K | $5,950 | — | $339K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $219K from 15 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$81K
- Canadahelps Canadon$81K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$50K
- Oakville Community Foundation$2,000
- ST. Andrew's and Knox United Church$2,000
- The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa$960
- Anglican Parish of South Queens$746
- Milton Christian Church (disciples of Christ)$515
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$387
- United Way of Greater Toronto$366
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$300
- Hope Springs United Church$150
- The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa$100
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$80
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions81
- Total compensation, all staff$96K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Deborah Tropea (chair); Chelsey Cook (director); Graham Wells (director); Kathryn Lucking (director); Peter Ross (vice-chair); Alexandra Blair (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Madagascar School Project Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857467625RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.