Mount Saint Vincent University
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 119048049RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($79,846,264) as filed with the CRA.
Mount Saint Vincent University is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $88M in revenue and $79.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 39% from government. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $480K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 467 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 37 names.
In its own words
Mount saint vincent university ( the mount) provides post-secondary education to canadian and international students as a degree granting institution. The mount also offers it residence and instructional space for rent when not in use by students. The mount supports research and applied study carried on by is faculty members and graduate students. The mount porvides scholarships and bursaries as well as assistantships and suppports its students in their study and research. The mount provides distributed learning through distance education initiatives which reach and support students who are no…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $88M | $79.8M | $71.9M | $1M | — | $66.9M |
| 2023 | $79.4M | $77.5M | $68.9M | $704K | — | $58.7M |
| 2022 | $74.7M | $71.4M | $63.6M | $13K | — | $56.8M |
| 2021 | $75.5M | $63.6M | $53.2M | $21K | — | $53.5M |
| 2020 | $66.6M | $67.3M | $59.8M | $648K | — | $41.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $480K from 24 charities:
- Margaret and Wallace McCain Family Foundation Inc$150K
- BenefAction Foundation$55K
- Scholarship Trust Fund under the will of Marial Laura Morse Mosher$53K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- J and W Murphy Foundation$40K
- Walker Wood Foundation$30K
- The Bruce and Martha Jodrey Foundation$20K
- Harrison McCain Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent$10K
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$5,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,042
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$4,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,693
- Halifax Protestant Infants Foundation$1,300
- The Community Foundation of Prince Edward Island Inc.$1,142
- Sisters of Charity - Caritas Retirement Centre$272
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$200
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$67
- United Way of Cape Breton County$51
- The Phyllis Lambert Foundation/la Fondation Phyllis Lambert$50
- Mobile Giving Foundation Canada$10
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions467
- Total compensation, all staff$54M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Natasha Agnew (board member-comm at lar); Katerina Allen (board member-student); Susan Brigham (board member-faculty); Michelle Clare (board member-comm at lar); Tyrone Cotie (board member-chair); Amanda Dean (board member-comm at lar); Danielle Desjardins (board member-comm at lar); Joel Dickinson (board member-president); Sarah Elliot (board member-student); Ifeanyi Emesih (board member-comm at lar); Craig Ennis (board member-comm at lar); Margaret Fitzpatrick (chancellor); Jean Bflynn (board member-gov. in coun); Lori Francis (board member-vp academi); Tamara Franz-Odendaal (board member-faculty); Heather Hanson (board member-comm at lar); Hart Cherise (board member-gen. in coun); Penny Henneberry (board member-alumnae); Janice Keefe (board member-faculty); S.nuala Kenny (board member-s. of charity); Paul Macisaac (board member-comm at lar); S. Sheilagh Martin (board member-s. of charity); Joan McMullin (board member-s. of charity); Joseph (joe) Nahas (board member-comm at lar); Thomas(tom) Nicolle (board member-comm at lar); Isabelle Nault (board member-vp admin); Charys Payne (board member-comm at lar); Claudette Porter (board member-comm at lar); Dana Power (board member-alumnae); Mona Power (board member-comm at lar); Nola Sam (board member-student); Rosemarie Sampson (board member-s. of charity); Marie Scagliola (board member-s. of charity); William Squires (board member-comm at lar); Judith Sullivan-Corney (board member-order in counc); Patricia(patti) Towler (board member-vice chair); Faye Trim (board member-s. of charity).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mount Saint Vincent University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119048049RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.