Access Better Living Inc./vie Independante et Enrichie Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Timmins, Ontario · BN 129600565RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,224,660) as filed with the CRA.
Access Better Living Inc./vie Independante et Enrichie Inc. is a charitable organization based in Timmins, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $3.3M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2020, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $19.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 3% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $3.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Supportive housing extend-a-family shelter outreach senior citizen recreation centre respite network d.s. Caregiver respite services and support respite supports children - in home support out of home respite services - children low acuity assisted living high risk seniors home help/maintenance
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $2.9M | $3M | $1.9M | — | — | $988K |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.9M | — | — | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $1.1M | — | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.6M | — | — | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Received $19 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kim Guillemette (chair); Lucie Brethour (director); Lorraine Laiho (director); Kathy Loreto (secretary); Vicki Butterworth (director); Steve Kidd (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Access Better Living Inc./vie Independante et Enrichie Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129600565RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.