Dechinta Initiatives
Publicly funded institution · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories · BN 800673402RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,003,283) as filed with the CRA.
Dechinta Initiatives is a charitable organization based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $5.7M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $71K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $5.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Delivering land-based post-secondary courses covering indigenous governance self-determination community health and indigenous art indigenous land based post-secondary education programming in partnership with university of british columbia & university of alberta. Providing semester courses short courses workshops and teacher's master course.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.7M | $5M | $4.3M | $1,961 | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $4.3M | $4M | $3.3M | — | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $2.1M | — | — | $703K |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $1.9M | $1.5M | — | — | $667K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $924K | — | — | $270K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $71K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Glen Coulhard (president); Heidi Stark (treasurer); Lianne Charlie (secretary); Leanne Simpson (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Dechinta Initiatives’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 800673402RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.