The Nova Scotian Institute of Science
Publicly funded institution · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 119247971RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
No spending breakdown could be derived from this charity’s most recent filing — the receipt can’t be printed. The figures it did file are below.
The Nova Scotian Institute of Science is a charitable organization based in Dartmouth, 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 $6,073 in revenue and $9,627 in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2,282 in 2020 to $6,073 in 2024.
In its own words
The nova scotian institute of science was founded in 1862. Science lectures are organized and open to public; publishes a scientific journal 'proceedings of the nova scotian institute of science (pnsis) and it is distributed to members and libraries and exchanged with international journals
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6,073 | $9,627 | — | — | — | $29K |
| 2023 | $4,543 | $6,340 | — | — | — | $33K |
| 2022 | $4,578 | $5,918 | — | — | — | $35K |
| 2021 | $6,246 | $8,439 | — | — | — | $36K |
| 2020 | $2,282 | $7,052 | — | — | — | $38K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Nova Scotian Institute of Science’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119247971RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.