University of King's College
Publicly funded institution · Halifax, Nova Scotia · BN 121726863RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($28,068,345) as filed with the CRA.
University of King's College 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $25.7M in revenue and $28.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 35% from government. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.2M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 86% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 108 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $98K in 2024, the largest being $98K to Diocesan Synod of Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island.
In its own words
The university of king's college is a fully-accredited degree-granting post-secondary educational institution offering undergraguate degrees in the humanities and journalism and graduate degrees in journalism and fine arts.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.7M | $28.1M | $21.7M | $85K | $98K | $47.2M |
| 2023 | $24.7M | $25.3M | $20.6M | $51K | $145K | $46.8M |
| 2022 | $22.6M | $23.3M | $18.7M | $42K | $121K | $48.1M |
| 2021 | $24.2M | $21.6M | $17.6M | $39K | $120K | $44.7M |
| 2020 | $23M | $21.8M | $17.5M | $87K | $153K | $37.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $98K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $2.2M from 14 charities:
- Aqueduct Foundation$1M
- The Joyce Family Foundation$1M
- Donald and Florence Forrester Foundation$131K
- Trust Under Will of F C Manning$16K
- Harrison McCain Foundation$16K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,104
- The Glenboro Area Foundation Inc$5,443
- Bowen Island Community Foundation$5,000
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$5,000
- The Diocesan Synod of Fredericton$4,500
- J and W Murphy Foundation$3,500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$520
- Cseg Foundation$500
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$52
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9998 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions108
- Total compensation, all staff$13.7M
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 University of King's College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 121726863RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.