Home Base Yellowknife
Publicly funded institution · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories · BN 868535691RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,785,027) as filed with the CRA.
Home Base Yellowknife is a charitable organization based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, 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 $3.9M in revenue and $3.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $288K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 51% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $3.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The Side Door Ministries maintains and operates a centre for the purpose of outreach for aboriginal and norther at-risk youth. It includes but is not limited to the provision of family counseling rehabilitation due to addictions and negative societal affects and providing resources for safe-space and living.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.9M | $3.8M | $3.4M | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $2.8M | $2.5M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $2.2M | — | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $1.1M | — | — | -$215K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $288K from 10 charities:
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$75K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$68K
- United Way of Northwest Territories$66K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$28K
- Makeway Foundation$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$18K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$10K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$100
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dawn Pottinger (treasurer); Lea O'Keefe (chair); Steve Payne (director); Vivian Hansen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Home Base Yellowknife’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 868535691RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.