The Canadian Association of Science Centres
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 875439861RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,135,422) as filed with the CRA.
The Canadian Association of Science Centres is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, 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 $3.2M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 26 qualified donees totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $116K to Dalhousie University. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $296K in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
The canadian association of science centres builds capacity for its members to inspire a creative and prosperous canada through science and technology engagement. The association organizes an annual conference each year for the network of science centres.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $4.1M | $2.5M | — | $1M | $661K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1M | — | $70K | $530K |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $3.1M | $2M | — | $596K | $443K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $788K | — | — | $288K |
| 2020 | $296K | $283K | $230K | — | — | $141K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1M to 26 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Dalhousie University$116K
- The Science East Association Inc.$111K
- Saskatchewan Science Centre Inc.$96K
- Centre d'Interpretation de l'Eau de Laval$69K
- Fraser-Fort George Museum Society$69K
- A.s.t.c. Science World Society$61K
- Science North-Science Nord$59K
- Fraser River Discovery Centre Society$57K
- THEMUSEUM of Ideas Transcending Objects$56K
- Steamlabs (ap)$50K
- The Edmonton Space & Science Foundation$45K
- Meewasin Valley Authority$45K
- The Manitoba Museum$37K
- Indus Space Inc.$26K
- Canada Science and Technology Museum Corporation Foundation$20K
- Science North-Science Nord$18K
- Manuels River Community Inc.$17K
- The University of British Columbia$16K
- Calgary Science Centre Society$12K
- Societe du Vieux-Port de Montreal Inc.$9,450
- London Regional Children's Museum$9,112
- Luanch Waterloo$6,700
- Ubc (earth Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences)$5,488
- Ripley's Aquarium of Canada$5,400
- Manitoba Children's Museum Inc.$4,140
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
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Guylaine Archambault (director); Jordan Baker (director); Sandy Baumgartner (president); Sandra Corbeil (director); Tobi Day-Hamilton (director); Katie Gray (director); Richard Julius Obania Del Rosario (director); Paul Kortenaar (director); Katie McMahon (director); Julie Moskalyk (treasurer); Alan Nursall (director); Jennifer Punch (vice-president); Cybele Robichaud (director); Turfah Tabish (director); Pamela Todd (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Canadian Association of Science Centres’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 875439861RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.