Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia
Public foundation · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 119034510RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($661,698) as filed with the CRA.
Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia is a public foundation based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $817K in revenue and $662K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2,979.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 61 qualified donees totalling $385K in 2024, the largest being $117K to The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centre For Halifax Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Bursary program for graduating high school students to financially assist with their post secondary education in atlantic canada financial support for needy welfare poverty and charitable purposes grants to a broad range of registered charities provining youth and community programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $817K | $662K | $216K | — | $385K | $14.8M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $693K | $220K | — | $417K | $13.3M |
| 2022 | $686K | $533K | $192K | — | $289K | $13.5M |
| 2021 | $886K | $404K | $176K | — | $188K | $14.9M |
| 2020 | $689K | $385K | $170K | — | $171K | $12.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $385K to 61 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centre For Halifax Inc.$117K
- The Pictou County Fuel Fund Society$25K
- South Shore Health Foundation$23K
- Cobequid Community Health Centre Foundation$17K
- The Fidelis House Society$15K
- Saint Leonard's Society of Nova Scotia$15K
- Queens General Hospital Auxiliary$15K
- Iwk Health Centre Charitable Foundation$15K
- Colchester East Hants Health Center FDN.$15K
- Canadian National Institute for the Blind$15K
- Strait Regional Centre for Education$14K
- Municipality of Pictou County$10K
- Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education$8,000
- Special Olympics Society of Nova Scotia$7,800
- Colchester Community Support Society$7,800
- Colchester East Hants Hospice Society$7,000
- Mission to Seafarers$6,250
- Chignecto-Central Regional Centre for Education$6,000
- Hospice Palliative CARE Society of Cape Breton County$5,000
- Halifax West Ecumenical Food Bank Association$2,400
- South West Nova Transition House Association$2,100
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/conseil de Direction de l'Armée du Salut du Canada$2,000
- Pictou (west) Food Bank Society$2,000
- Nova Scotia Community College Foundation$2,000
- New Boundaries Society$2,000
Received $2,979 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Cowley (director); Frank Gammell (director); Harold Crosby (treasurer); John Dolimount (secretary); Rick McCulloch (director); Kenneth Simmons (director); Michael Lutes (chairman); David White (director); Gerald Settle (director); Thomas Wallace (director); Gordon Macdonald (director); Alan Pace (director); Andrew Beeler (director); James Luddington (director); Roger Bronson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119034510RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.