Society for Enterprise Education and Development SEED
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 834772303RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($639,497) as filed with the CRA.
Society for Enterprise Education and Development SEED is a charitable organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $636K in revenue and $639K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3,002.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $278K in 2020 to $636K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The society operates to deliver educational programs to those individuals who are socially and economically marginalized to maintain and operate a resource mentorship framework that links employers to socially and economically marginalized youths and to undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the above objectives throughout atlantic canada.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $636K | $639K | $549K | — | — | $55K |
| 2023 | $620K | $613K | $539K | — | — | $59K |
| 2022 | $581K | $543K | $489K | — | — | $51K |
| 2021 | $370K | $355K | $290K | — | — | $14K |
| 2020 | $278K | $275K | $241K | — | — | -$1,047 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $3,002 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$367K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Berard (director); Craig Macmullin (president); Stewart Zaun (chair); Hailey Vildler (treasurer); Kathy Murphy (secretary); Calla Farn (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Society for Enterprise Education and Development SEED’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 834772303RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.