The Hastings and Prince Edward Learning Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Belleville, Ontario · BN 861058113RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,609,910) as filed with the CRA.
The Hastings and Prince Edward Learning Foundation is a public foundation based in Belleville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 52% from government, 10% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $491K.
Compared with 47 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $115K in 2024, the largest being $75K to Hastings and Prince Edward District School Board. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
The hastings and prince edward learning foundation is the charitable arm of the hastings and prince edward district school board. It was established for the purpose of raising funds that will promote success and enhance educational activities for all students in the hastings and prince edward district. The on-going programs are: food for learning the food sharing project lead agency of the school nutrition program (snp) student emergency fund and sharing cupboards. As the lead agency of mycs the learning foundation has the responsibility for the administration of school nutrition programs…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $2.6M | $2.1M | $50K | $115K | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.6M | $2.2M | $26K | — | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $2.9M | $2.5M | $29K | — | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $2.9M | $2.4M | $2.1M | $27K | — | $2M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $22K | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $115K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $491K from 20 charities:
- The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industry$116K
- John M. & Bernice Parrott Foundation Inc.$100K
- Breakfast Club of Canada$86K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Canadahelps Canadon$41K
- Centre Hastings Community Support and Education Inc.$32K
- The Alva Foundation$30K
- Abundance Canada$13K
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$10K
- Senators Community Foundation$5,691
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,621
- BenefAction Foundation$3,000
- The Calgary Foundation$2,000
- ST. Mark's United Church Cannifton$1,310
- Eastside Community Baptist Church$878
- Westminster United Church$765
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$140
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$100
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$67
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Total compensation, all staff$414K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Geoff Cudmore (chair); June Hagerman (director); Katherine Maciver (director); Lucille Kyle (vice chair); Spencer Hutchinson (treasurer); Nancy Roberts (director); Loris Clarke (director); Wendy Osborne (director); Shannon Binder (director); Bryce Wilson (director); Eric Fetterley (director); Vicki Wood (director); Cheryl Whiteman (director); Kellie Brace (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Hastings and Prince Edward Learning Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861058113RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.