Friends Of The Finnish Labour Temple Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 802057380RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($209,608) as filed with the CRA.
Friends Of The Finnish Labour Temple Inc. is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $172K in revenue and $210K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 84% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2021, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $20K.
None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $45K in 2020 to $172K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
To advance education by providing publicly available scholarships bursaries and other forms of financial assistance to university students. To advance the public's appreciation of the arts by producing high quality educational media and performing arts such as reports books articles plays films and music and making these available to the public. To advance education by conducting research projects projects regarding the historical and cultural legacy of immigration to canada and disseminating the results of the research to the public.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $172K | $210K | — | — | — | $14K |
| 2023 | $98K | $79K | — | — | — | $29K |
| 2022 | $95K | $93K | — | — | — | $8,953 |
| 2021 | $88K | $86K | — | — | — | $6,802 |
| 2020 | $45K | $41K | — | — | — | $5,142 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $20K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$99K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kelly Saxberg (president); Ronald Harpelle (treasurer); Michael Beulieu (secretary); Charles Hatton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Friends Of The Finnish Labour Temple Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 802057380RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.