Kootenay Employment Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Creston, British Columbia · BN 867238487RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,113,497) as filed with the CRA.
Kootenay Employment Services Society is a charitable organization based in Creston, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $9M in revenue and $8.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $56K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 43 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.2M in 2020 to $9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
1. Services to job seekers including employment counseling job-seeker resource centre assessments funds for skills training small business development programming wage subsidies group employability and life-skills training work placement and community work projects. Some programs are delivered regionally (east and west kootenay). Intensified services for persons will special needs (I.e. Disability). 2. Community development that sees us engaging various stakeholder groups to establish new or bolster existing community development initiatives especially in areas that positively affect t…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9M | $8.1M | $7.2M | — | — | $5.5M |
| 2023 | $8M | $7.8M | $6.9M | — | $1,480 | $4.7M |
| 2022 | $6.9M | $6.6M | $5.7M | — | $913 | $4.5M |
| 2021 | $6M | $5.2M | $4.5M | — | — | $4.2M |
| 2020 | $5.2M | $4.7M | $4.6M | — | — | $3.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $56K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions43
- Total compensation, all staff$3.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ann Deatherage (chair); Alanna Garrett (director); Justine Keirn (treasurer); Lorne Mann (director); Alison Masters (director); Scott Cobbe (director); Brian Pealow (director); Daniel Gratton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kootenay Employment Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867238487RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.