Nova Scotia Community College Foundation
Public foundation · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 887210318RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,192,201) as filed with the CRA.
Nova Scotia Community College Foundation is a public foundation based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $10.1M in revenue and $8.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 28% from government, 35% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.1M.
Compared with 74 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.2M in 2024, the largest being $1.2M to Nova Scotia Community College.
In its own words
NSCC Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the NSCC supporting the College's vision and mission to transform Nova Scotia one learner at a time build Nova Scotia's economy and quality of life through education and innovation and promise to empower those who strive to know more do more and be more. Dedicated to helping students in financial need and improving access to education. Matching philanthropic interests of donors with priority needs of NSCC lead fundraising initiatives across 14 campuses ensure responsible management and stewardship of all donor funds and direct the administratio…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.1M | $8.2M | $6.1M | $976K | $2M | $1M |
| 2023 | $8.1M | $6.1M | $4.4M | $867K | $1.3M | $700K |
| 2022 | $6.9M | $5.3M | $3M | $710K | $845K | $484K |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $5.5M | $2.1M | $667K | $2M | $462K |
| 2020 | $7M | $4.9M | $2.5M | $824K | $1M | $479K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.2M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $3.1M from 26 charities:
- Nova Scotia Community College$1.8M
- Aqueduct Foundation$296K
- D.R. Sobey Foundation$250K
- RBC Foundation$225K
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$159K
- River Philip Foundation$100K
- Walker Wood Foundation$68K
- Hugh & Linda Brown Educational Foundation$60K
- Harrison McCain Foundation$40K
- The DR. & MRS. H. E. Christie Community Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$16K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$10K
- J and W Murphy Foundation$10K
- Trust under the Will of Walter Kenneth Morrison$9,052
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$8,574
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$6,500
- The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundation$6,000
- The John and Jeanne Eyking Family Foundation$5,000
- Yarmouth Hospital Foundation$5,000
- Middleton Rotary Club Community Services Association$2,000
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia$2,000
- Ladies Auxiliary to the Aberdeen Hospital$1,000
- Slow Motion Food Film Fest Society$1,000
- Fundy Community Foundation$250
- Canadahelps Canadon$86
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
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 Nova Scotia Community College Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887210318RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.