Registered charity
The Discovery Centre
Legal name on the register: THE DISCOVERY CENTRE
CA-E-YNMV-SJEEFormerCanada (federal)2 independent sources
$5.0MRevenue reported
$627KPublic money on record
16On the board
19Organisations connected
2Independent publishers
67/100Evidence depth
September 8, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-YNMV-SJEE
- Address
- 1215 LOWER WATER ST, HALIFAX, NS, B3J 3S8
- Earliest record
- May 13, 2019
- Also known as
- Discovery Centre
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 108076662RR0001
- Business number
- 108076662
Evidence depth
67/100
Layered recordThis 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: 19 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
60
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
50
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
75
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
61
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
| Registrar | Instrument | Number | Registered | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canada Revenue Agency | Registered charity | 108076662RR0001 | — | Registered |
Board and officers on record (16)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jane Crowell | Board Member | June 20, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Dov Bercovici | President & CEO | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Colin Dodds | Past Chair | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Steve Rankin | Director | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Richard Butts | Board Member | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Gerald LaCroix | Treasurer | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Myra Freeman | Chair | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Danielle Comeau | Board Member | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Simone Le Gendre King | Board Member | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Matthew Newell | Board Member | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Sidney Idemudia | Board Member | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Isaac Cook | Board Member | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Templeton Sawyer | Board Member | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Dawn Delaney | Board Member | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Doug Jones | Vice Chair | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
| Matthew Johnson | Ex-Officio | April 1, 2023 | ended March 31, 2024 |
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 (19)
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.
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.
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
- $5,005,671
- Total spending
- $7,345,588
- Total assets
- $16,103,040
- Total liabilities
- $3,705,598
- Receipted donations
- $32,287
- From other charities
- $56,084
Charitable programs84.0% · $6.2M · line 5000
Management and administration13.5% · $989K · line 5010
Fundraising1.4% · $106K · line 5020
Not broken down in the return1.1% · $81K
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.
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 grants and contributions
$627,292
across 11 agreements, 2019–2025
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Natural Resources Canada | 1 | $300,000 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 7 | $257,292 |
| Canadian Heritage | 3 | $70,000 |
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.
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.
Timeline
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$40,139
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$38,871
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$15,000
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$15,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$41,699
- Federal grant — Natural Resources Canada$300,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$46,786
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$59,689
- Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$40,000
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$17,919
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$12,189
Where this record comes from
| Dataset | Last captured | Cadence | Coverage kept | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 2, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 5, 2026 | P1Y | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
| Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 8, 2026 | P1Y | 2 captures · 1 comparisons | current |
| Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada | September 3, 2026 | P3M | 1 captures · 0 comparisons | current |
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.
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