Labrador Friendship Centre
Publicly funded institution · Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador · BN 118987916RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,719,408) as filed with the CRA.
Labrador Friendship Centre is a charitable organization based in Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Newfoundland and Labrador, 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 $6.6M in revenue and $6.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $65K.
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 1% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 75 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.5M in 2020 to $6.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Peer counselling food bank hostel cafeteria implementation of various social cultural health educational employment and developmental programs to enrich the lives of aboriginals in labrador including the inuit innu and metis people
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.6M | $6.7M | $131K | — | — | $6.1M |
| 2023 | $5.8M | $5.6M | $167K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $5.4M | $5.3M | $136K | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $6.5M | $6.3M | $87K | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $3.5M | $3.5M | $81K | — | — | $897K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $65K from 8 charities:
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$40K
- RBC Foundation$15K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$4,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,966
- Steelworkers Humanity Fund Inc./ le Fonds Humanitaire des Metallos Inc.$2,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$576
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$165
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$17
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions75
- Total compensation, all staff$3.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rosamond Andersen (president); Barbara McGowan (secretary); Dieter Holeiter (non-indigenous director); Beverly White (treasurer); Martina Lavellee (vice president); Vanessa Hamel (indigenous director); McKenzie Dyson (indigenous youth direct); Julia Lyall (non-indigenous director); Amanda Mogridge (non-indigenous director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Labrador Friendship Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118987916RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.