Lii Michif Otipemisiwak Family & Community Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Kamloops, British Columbia · BN 871948535RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,067,670) as filed with the CRA.
Lii Michif Otipemisiwak Family & Community Services Society is a charitable organization based in Kamloops, British Columbia, 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 $12.5M in revenue and $12.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 85% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $337K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 47 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $700 in 2024, the largest being $700 to Royal Inland Hospital Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.1M in 2020 to $12.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
We care for an support the safety and wellbeing of metis children youth and families. As a metis child and family services agency we foster support of the metis culture by: -work respectfully with all levels of government to promote strong healthy metis children youth and families; -offer family programming and child safety services that are embedded in and delivered with love compassion respect; -ensure services are consisten with metis traditions values and ways of caring for an honouring one another; -construct hold manage and maintain culturally safe and affordable housing op…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.5M | $12.1M | $11.1M | — | $700 | $321K |
| 2023 | $9.5M | $9.6M | $8.8M | — | — | $186K |
| 2022 | $9M | $8.9M | $8.2M | — | — | $279K |
| 2021 | $8.7M | $8.6M | $8M | — | — | $169K |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $4.1M | $3.6M | $33K | — | $101K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $700 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $337K from 9 charities:
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
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions47
- Total compensation, all staff$5.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dawn Campbell (vice-president); Kaleena Carriere (treasurer); April Fisher (director); Megan Banman (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lii Michif Otipemisiwak Family & Community Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 871948535RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.