Public Schools Branch
Publicly funded institution · Summerside, Prince Edward Island · BN 808030647RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($394,599) as filed with the CRA.
Public Schools Branch is a charitable organization based in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $398K in revenue and $395K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from donations, 13% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $19K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers.
It reported gifts to 31 qualified donees totalling $395K in 2024, the largest being $108K to Queen Elizabeth Elementary. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $171K in 2020 to $398K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Donations are received and forwarded to schools for the purchase of educational materials and/or student supplies (and other items needed) to be distributed as graduation awards. Bursaries and scholarships.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $398K | $395K | — | — | $395K | $0 |
| 2023 | $236K | $242K | — | — | $242K | $0 |
| 2022 | $245K | $245K | — | — | $245K | $0 |
| 2021 | $153K | $153K | — | — | $153K | — |
| 2020 | $171K | $171K | — | — | $171K | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $395K to 31 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Queen Elizabeth Elementary$108K
- Engelwood School$67K
- East Wiltshire Intermediate$50K
- Souris Consolidated Regional High$38K
- Montague Regional High$32K
- Sherwood Elementary$25K
- Charlottetown Rural Senior High School$22K
- Westwood Primary School$12K
- Bluefield Senior High$11K
- Morell Regional High$7,613
- Colonel Gray Senior High$4,515
- Somerset Elementary$2,500
- West Royalty Elementary$2,250
- Three Oaks Senior High$2,200
- Kinkora Regional High School$2,065
- West Kent Elementary$1,700
- Amherst Cove Consolidated$1,550
- Elm Street Elementary$1,450
- Prince Street Elementary$1,224
- ST. Jean Elementary$1,000
- Parkdale Elementary$855
- Central Queens Elementary$700
- Montague Consolidated$275
- Queen Charlotte Intermediate$266
- Westside Composite High School$200
Received $19K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wade Czank (board member); Rachel McCarthy (board member); Jaclyn Massey (board member); Heather Mullen (board chair); Stephanie Arnold (board vice chair); Jodi Zver (board member); Amanda Blakeney (board member); Beverley Boulter (board member); Rebecca Keezer (board member); Jacob Jadis (board member); Jocelyne Ludgate (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Public Schools Branch’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 808030647RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.