Mamele'Awt Qweesome Housing Society
Publicly funded institution · Mission, British Columbia · BN 135152064RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,292,264) as filed with the CRA.
Mamele'Awt Qweesome Housing Society is a charitable organization based in Mission, British Columbia, 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 $6.2M in revenue and $6.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
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 82% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 40 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.5M in 2020 to $6.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Society operates to provide housing appropiate to the needs to low income families and individuals mainly of native ancestry.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.2M | $6.3M | $6M | — | — | $12.7M |
| 2023 | $5.5M | $5.3M | $5.1M | — | — | $12.7M |
| 2022 | $4.6M | $4.8M | $4.5M | — | — | $11M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $4.1M | $3.7M | — | — | $10.5M |
| 2020 | $3.5M | $3.7M | $3.4M | — | — | $10.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions40
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Darlene Kelly (director); Donna Blair (director); Andrea Voss-Barkman (president); Colette Trudeau (secretory); Antonia Nicholas (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mamele'Awt Qweesome Housing Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 135152064RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.