Tri-County Regional Centre for Education
Publicly funded institution · Bridgewater, Nova Scotia · BN 858508542RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($108,552,391) as filed with the CRA.
Tri-County Regional Centre for Education is a charitable organization based in Bridgewater, 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 $108.5M in revenue and $108.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $32K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 1,027 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $51K in 2020 to $108.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Various school programs and scholarship funds received donations to contribute for the purpose of futhering students under the centre's jurisdiction purchase and/or contribute to special projects of the regional centre
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $108.5M | $108.6M | $5.1M | — | — | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $102.2M | $102.7M | $4.5M | — | — | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $287K | $123K | — | — | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $183K | $108K | $108K | — | — | $872K |
| 2020 | $51K | $72K | $72K | — | — | $797K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $32K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,027
- Total compensation, all staff$88.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Becky Druham (minister of eecd); Elwin Leroux (deputy minister of eecd); Jared Purdy (regional executive director); Tiffany Joudrey (director of finance).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Tri-County Regional Centre for Education’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 858508542RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.