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Registered charity

Cape Breton University

Legal name on the register: CAPE BRETON UNIVERSITY

CA-E-QRET-6PT1CurrentCanada (federal)3 independent sources
$187.5MRevenue reported
$9.5MPublic money on record
5On the board
3Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
86/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-QRET-6PT1
Address
PO BOX 5300, SYDNEY, NS, B1P 6L2
Earliest record
January 10, 2000
Also known as
Deanne van Rooyen, Associate Professor · Cape Breton · Purdy Crawford Chair in Aboriginal Business Studies · College of Cape Breton · University College of Cape Breton
Identifiers held
Charity registration
119279032RR0001
Business number
100007549
Business number
119279032
Legal Entity Identifier
549300QNOZ7R8KYY5129
Global legal identity. This organisation carries a Legal Entity Identifier in the GLEIF system. The LEI is evidence attached to this entities.ca record; it does not replace the permanent Canadian Entity Identifier. Open the GLEIF source record.
Evidence depth
86/100
Deep record

This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.

Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates

Additional graph evidence outside the score: 3 organisation connections.

Public footprint · version 1

Where this organisation appears in public records

Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.

Footprint is not performance.

A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.

Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
100
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
85
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
55
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
93

Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.

Registrations
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity119279032RR0001—Registered
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)Legal Entity Identifier549300QNOZ7R8KYY5129May 12, 2015ACTIVE — LEI LAPSED · GLEIF FULLY_CORROBORATED
Board and officers on record (5)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Denise AllenCHAIRJanuary 1, 2024current
Kirk MacraeVICE CHAIRJanuary 1, 2024current
David DingwallPRESIDENT & VICE CHANCELLORMarch 31, 2018current
Gordon MacinnisTREASURERJanuary 10, 2000current
Roderick NichollsSECRETARY—current

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Organisations sharing a filed director name (3)

Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.

OrganisationKindNames in common
Gaelic College Foundation
CA-E-49WE-JVJ8
Registered charity1
Hospice Palliative Care Society Of Cape Breton County
CA-E-4HNR-VXBR
Registered charity1
Taback Charitable Foundation
CA-E-PEQX-VBH5
Registered charity1
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.

The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
What it raised and spent — year ended March 31, 2024
Total revenue
$187,540,732
Total spending
$139,735,387
Total assets
$465,632,750
Total liabilities
$249,265,754
Receipted donations
$3,893,685
From other charities
$570,957
Charitable programs89.9% · $125.7M · line 5000
Management and administration10.1% · $14.1M · line 5010
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.

A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
Public money on record
Federal contracts
$1,098,513

across 15 awards, 2008–2021

2008$506K
2009$24K
2010$24K
2011$56K
2013$22K
2015$165K
2016$15K
2017$187K
2019$78K
2021$23K
Federal grants and contributions
$8,432,671

across 61 agreements, 2009–2026

2009$170K
2010$89K
2013$115K
2014$89K
2015$187K
2016$180K
2017$255K
2018$242K
2019$548K
2020$2.0M
2021$529K
2022$968K
2023$1.3M
2024$965K
2025$578K
2026$200K
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
What it does
Industry code
611310
North American Industry Classification System
Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.
Timeline
  1. Federal grant — Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency$200,000
  2. Federal grant — Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency$40,000
  3. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$6,594
  4. Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$531,841
  5. Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$326,614
  6. Federal grant — Canada Revenue Agency$985
  7. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$6,384
  8. Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$510,819
  9. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$100,000
  10. Federal grant — Parks Canada$20,000
  11. Federal grant — Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada$487,500
  12. Federal grant — Canada Revenue Agency$3,200
  13. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$8,120
  14. Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$150,000
  15. Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$454,225
  16. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$21,685
  17. Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$222,050
  18. Federal grant — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$296,132
  19. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$14,696
  20. Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$50,000
  21. Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$465,896
  22. Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$50,000
  23. Federal grant — Natural Resources Canada$91,000
  24. Federal grant — Natural Resources Canada
  25. Federal grant — Veterans Affairs Canada$9,960
  26. Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$22,585
  27. Federal grant — Veterans Affairs Canada$9,750
  28. Federal grant — Veterans Affairs Canada$9,950
  29. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$21,751
  30. Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$50,000
  31. Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$428,085
  32. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$31,626
  33. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$35,869
  34. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$10,559
  35. Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$50,000
  36. Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$481,838
  37. Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$50,000
  38. Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$1,308,314
  39. Federal grant — Parks Canada$3,000
  40. Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$100,000

Showing the 40 most recent of 77 dated events.

Why this is one record

6 public datasets from 3 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

  • Same name and postal code B1P 6L2
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 2, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 5, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 8, 2026P1Y2 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 1, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Global LEI Index — Canadian legal entities
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) · Public Domain — CC0 1.0 Universal
October 24, 2026P1D5 captures · 4 comparisonsdue
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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