Leading Thunderbird Lodge Inc.
Publicly funded institution · FT Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan · BN 107769655RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,084,346) as filed with the CRA.
Leading Thunderbird Lodge Inc. is a charitable organization based in FT Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $4M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2021, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $10K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Empowering indigenous youth by providing programming that promotes sobriety and skills to pursue and maintain a balanced psychological social physical and spiritual lifestyle.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4M | $4.1M | $3.7M | — | — | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $4.3M | $4M | $3.6M | — | — | $4M |
| 2022 | $3.4M | $3.4M | $2.8M | — | — | $3.5M |
| 2021 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $2M | — | — | $3.6M |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $3.2M | $2.7M | — | — | $3.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $10K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lloyd Buffalo (director); Frank Dieter (director); Melissa Tavita (director); Byron Bitternose (director); Alice Paytayken (director); Jeremy Fourhorns (chair); Richard Stonechild (director); Rodger Redman (director); Margaret Keewatin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Leading Thunderbird Lodge Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107769655RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.