The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centre For Halifax Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Dartmouth, Nova Scotia · BN 838413854RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($304,011) as filed with the CRA.
The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centre For Halifax Inc. 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 May 31, 2024, it reported $355K in revenue and $304K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% from donations, 35% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $312K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Delivering remedial tutoring to children who have been formally identified as being dyslexic without any charge to the family of the children being tutored.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $355K | $304K | $264K | — | — | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $327K | $258K | $226K | — | — | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $550K | $227K | $198K | — | — | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $531K | $210K | $188K | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $286K | $190K | $165K | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $312K from 10 charities:
- Masonic Foundation of Nova Scotia$117K
- The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation of Canada$110K
- Halifax Youth Foundation$50K
- The Christina and Hedley G. Ivany Charitable Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,887
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,429
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$3,800
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$243
- ST Andrew's Lodge Sunshine Fund$100
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$52
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Total compensation, all staff$51K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kent Clarke (president); Harold Crosby (treasurer); Daniel Campbell (secraeary); Carson Jackson (vice president); Jackie Cody (director); Rebecca McNiven (director); Roderick Macdonald (director); Catherine Rissanen (director); Steven Warnell (director); Bonnie Waugh (director); Matthew Todd (director); Caitlin Neily (directot); James Stanley (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centre For Halifax Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 838413854RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.