Chinook Community Society
Publicly funded institution · Burns Lake, British Columbia · BN 733211080RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($150,000) as filed with the CRA.
Chinook Community Society is a public foundation based in Burns Lake, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $149K in revenue and $150K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 54 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $150K in 2024, the largest being $150K to The Prince George Community Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Receiving funding from Local Government Organizations for foundation work.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $149K | $150K | — | — | $150K | $11K |
| 2023 | $149K | $145K | — | — | $145K | $11K |
| 2022 | $145K | $145K | — | — | $145K | $7,105 |
| 2021 | $147K | $176K | — | — | $175K | $7,301 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $150K to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Pamela Anderson (director); Curtis Helgesen (director); Jason Llewellyn (director); Crystal Miller (director); John Illes (director); Sheryl Worthing (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chinook Community Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 733211080RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.