South Shore Regional Centre for Education
Publicly funded institution · Bridgewater, Nova Scotia · BN 858509540RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($111,216,131) as filed with the CRA.
South Shore Regional Centre for Education is a charitable organization based in Bridgewater, 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 $110.2M in revenue and $111.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $121K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 1,157 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $190K in 2020 to $110.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Various school programs and scholarship funds received donations to contribute for the purpose of furthering students under the centre's jurisdiction purchase and/or contribute to special projects of the regional centre
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $110.2M | $111.2M | $106.2M | — | — | $4.6M |
| 2023 | $106M | $105.1M | $100.7M | — | — | $5.7M |
| 2022 | $276K | $211K | — | — | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $218K | $215K | $215K | — | — | $938K |
| 2020 | $190K | $209K | $209K | — | — | $935K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $121K from 13 charities:
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$33K
- J and W Murphy Foundation$32K
- Aqueduct Foundation$20K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$11K
- United Way of Lunenburg County$6,900
- Milton Christian Church (disciples of Christ)$6,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,633
- The Rosewater Charitable Foundation$2,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,250
- Mahone Bay Area Food Bank Association$1,000
- Breakfast Club of Canada$612
- Parish of ST. James' Church$350
- New Cornwall Baptist Church$280
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,157
- Total compensation, all staff$93.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Becky Druham (minister of eecd); Elwin Leroux (deputy minister of eecd); Angela Gladwin (regional executive director); Tiffany Joudrey (director of finance).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from South Shore Regional Centre for Education’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 858509540RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.