Liard Aboriginal Women's Society
Publicly funded institution · Watson Lake, Yukon · BN 866008030RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,585,056) as filed with the CRA.
Liard Aboriginal Women's Society is a charitable organization based in Watson Lake, Yukon, 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 $8.9M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,843.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 95% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $8.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
LAWS offers western and traditional psychotherapy to members suffering from the physical and sexual abuse suffered in Residential School. We also offer healing workshops training and networking with other social organizations
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.9M | $2.6M | $2.6M | — | — | $7.4M |
| 2023 | $2M | $2.1M | $2.1M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $1.5M | — | $1.4M | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1M | $853K | — | — | $349K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | — | — | — | — | $313K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1,843 from 2 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- Canadahelps Canadon$493
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$822K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mary Maje (president); Mary Charlie (secretary); Dorothy Smith (vice president); Leda Jules (treasurer); Rose Ceasar (board member); Charlie Margaret (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Liard Aboriginal Women's Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866008030RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.