Saint Mary's University
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 119189900RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($183,562,098) as filed with the CRA.
Saint Mary's 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 $176.6M in revenue and $183.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from government. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 838 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $56K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Mi'Kmawey Debert Cultural Centre.
In its own words
Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate graduate and professional post-secondary education. Our programs in Arts Science Graduate Studies and the Sobey School of Business are among Canada’s best and feature professors who are committed to the success of their students. Saint Mary’s provides our students with a place that fosters possibility excellent research opportunities and distinguishe…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $176.6M | $183.6M | $158.3M | $2.3M | $228K | $428M |
| 2023 | $192.9M | $179.7M | $153.9M | $2.6M | $3,569 | $456.9M |
| 2022 | $163.4M | $165.9M | $142.6M | $2.6M | $500 | $382.7M |
| 2021 | $162.1M | $145.6M | $124.3M | $2.6M | $26K | $231.7M |
| 2020 | $157.6M | $156.6M | $135.3M | $2.8M | $48K | $212.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $56K to 10 qualified donees:
- Mi'Kmawey Debert Cultural Centre$50K
- Dalhousie University$5,125
- Ridge Meadows Hospital Foundation$50
- The Janeway Children's Hospital Foundation$50
- The Sacred Heart School of Halifax$50
- MS Canada SP Canada$50
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$50
- Erie Shores Health Foundation$50
- Hospice Society of Greater Halifax$50
- Canadahelps Canadon$50
Received $1.1M from 30 charities:
- The Durland Learning Foundation$345K
- Hewitt Foundation$128K
- Residual Trust Under the Will of Patrick Power$120K
- Aqueduct Foundation$94K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$66K
- The Windsor Foundation$50K
- Harrison McCain Foundation$36K
- Taleb Abidali's Foundation$35K
- Enactus Canada$27K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$26K
- The John Dobson Foundation$25K
- The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society$24K
- The Bruce and Martha Jodrey Foundation$20K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$20K
- Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$10K
- The Edwards Family Charitable Foundation$10K
- J and W Murphy Foundation$7,200
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,570
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,189
- The Leonard Foundation$3,462
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,500
- EastCoast Lifestyle Foundation Inc.$2,500
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9993 positions
- $250,000–299,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions838
- Total compensation, all staff$108.6M
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 Saint Mary's University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119189900RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.