Lakehead Social Planning Council
Publicly funded institution · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 107590820RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,129,865) as filed with the CRA.
Lakehead Social Planning Council is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $3.1M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $67K.
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 99% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $3.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
211 program; age friendly senior summit; homelessness partnering strategy; low-income energy assistance program; age friendly ontario senior secretariat; out of the cold; phones for families; prosper canada; incident reporting; winter warmth affordable transit; otf - empower the north
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $3.1M | $3.3M | — | — | $548K |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.6M | $2.5M | — | — | $553K |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2.6M | $2.5M | — | — | $464K |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $2.2M | $2.2M | — | — | $359K |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $2M | $1.9M | — | — | $204K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $67K from 4 charities:
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 positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paulette Howe (past president); Jillian Gribben (secretary); Roberta Simpson (treasurer/director); Lisa Schmidt (president); Kristine Jardine (director); Paul Magiskan (director); Jase Watford (director); Joanne Noble (vice president); Paul Wolfe (secretary); Richard Togman (director); Andrew Mawdryk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lakehead Social Planning Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107590820RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.