The Sacred Heart School of Halifax
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 108097825RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($11,438,843) as filed with the CRA.
The Sacred Heart School of Halifax is a charitable organization based in Halifax, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $12.3M in revenue and $11.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $148K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 82 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The operation of an independent school to provide secular academic studies and Roman Catholic instruction for the advancement of Christian principals.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.3M | $11.4M | $9.8M | $189K | — | $4.8M |
| 2023 | $12.3M | $11M | $9.5M | $185K | — | $4.5M |
| 2022 | $11.6M | $9.9M | $8.6M | $164K | — | $3.9M |
| 2021 | $11.3M | $9.9M | $8.6M | $151K | — | $3.5M |
| 2020 | $10.7M | $9.6M | $8.3M | $134K | — | $3.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $148K from 8 charities:
- Residual Trust Under the Will of Patrick Power$115K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,038
- Ladies of the Sacred Heart at Halifax$1,000
- Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent$800
- Canadahelps Canadon$410
- Saint Mary's University$50
- Society of the Sacred Heart (canada) /societe du Sacre-Coeur(canada)—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions82
- Total compensation, all staff$8.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sacred Heart School of Halifax’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108097825RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.