Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City Inc.
Charitable organization · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan · BN 862606563RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,280,128) as filed with the CRA.
Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City Inc. is a charitable organization based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations, 6% from government, 51% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $359K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The walk-in advocacy clinic provides clients experiencing poverty and injustice with full legal representation free of charge. Clients are assisted by practicing lawyers or law student advocates working under a lawyer's supervision. The legal advice clinic allows clietns to speak to a practicing lawyer for a half-hour legal advice session. These appointments are to assist people who do not have legal counsel and whoa re self-represented. The legal advice clinic provides legal advice and supports to racialized self-representing individuals through both the advice sessions and through system …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $971K | — | — | $886K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $831K | $12K | — | $827K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $873K | $9,404 | — | $793K |
| 2021 | $1M | $1M | $762K | $1,880 | — | $782K |
| 2020 | $986K | $924K | $621K | $31K | — | $770K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $359K from 11 charities:
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$150K
- United Way of Saskatoon and Area$66K
- United Way of Saskatoon and Area$60K
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambéry Corporation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$1,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$634
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$581
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$215
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$948K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Natasha Steinback (director); Blaine Beaven (chair); Jared Lindgren (treasurer); Trish St.onge (vice chair); Benjamin Ralston (secretary); Stephen Yee (director); Jan King (director); Vernon Penner-Acoose (director); Mark Galambos (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Legal Assistance Services for Saskatoon Inner City Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 862606563RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.