Greater Trail Community Skills Centre Society
Publicly funded institution · Trail, British Columbia · BN 888593431RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,709,881) as filed with the CRA.
Greater Trail Community Skills Centre Society is a charitable organization based in Trail, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $1.8M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $78K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 96% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $1.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Employment Programs: Operate a range of services and programs directed at helping people secure employment thereby reducing poverty. Healing Through Equine Assistance and Resiliency Training (HEART) program focused on delivering foundational and transferable skills social-emotional skills and Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) providing the program to 42 participants from racialized groups persons with disabilities newcomers and Indigenous people across the Kootenay region. Research Projects: Research related to poverty and labour market dynamics. Projects Include: Working Poverty - addressin…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1M | $239K | — | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.3M | $768K | $164K | $0 | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $1.7M | $1.1M | $165K | $0 | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.2M | $810K | $77K | $0 | $733K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $892K | $10K | $0 | $155K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $78K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wakley Williams (director); Rhys Andrews (director); Mary Lawson (president); Roloef Helberg (director); Rene Bouchard (secretary/treasurer); Liz Anderson (director); Dhiraj Chatpar (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Greater Trail Community Skills Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888593431RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.