The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centre - Valley of Barrie
Publicly funded institution · Barrie, Ontario · BN 823043666RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($109,045) as filed with the CRA.
The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centre - Valley of Barrie is a charitable organization based in Barrie, Ontario, 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 $139K in revenue and $109K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $116K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $211K in 2020 to $139K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The foundation's purpose is to provide remedial tutoring to children with a learning disability formally identified as dyslexia without any charge to the families of children accepted for the tutoring program in the barrie and surrounding area.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $139K | $109K | $67K | $21K | — | $550K |
| 2023 | $120K | $108K | $62K | $24K | — | $521K |
| 2022 | $67K | $84K | $64K | $387 | — | $508K |
| 2021 | $114K | $433K | $413K | $668 | — | $525K |
| 2020 | $211K | $174K | $127K | $19K | — | $845K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $116K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Boyd (president/chairman); Robert Brethour (director); Joe Demello (director); Rodney Greer (secretary); John Harrison (director); Brian Laporte (director); Ross Martin (director of operations); John McKillip (director); Sheila West-Merker (vice chairman); Robert Murdock (director); Elizabeth Rebelo (assistant to director); Steve Barendregt (treasurer); Jim Anderson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Scottish Rite Charitable Foundation Learning Centre - Valley of Barrie’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 823043666RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.