National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada Inc.
Charitable organization · Portage la Prairie, Manitoba · BN 797573698RR0001 · Public Amenities
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($670,736) as filed with the CRA.
National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada Inc. is a charitable organization based in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $488K in revenue and $671K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from donations, 42% from government. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $144K.
Compared with 1,296 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $73K in 2020 to $488K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Providing and maintaining a museum on the long plain first nation reserve to commemorate the history of residential schools in canada and providing education through the development of a database collective archiving historian documents and artifacts relating to the above.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $488K | $671K | $611K | $19K | — | -$52K |
| 2023 | $426K | $494K | $418K | $1,740 | — | $19K |
| 2022 | $182K | $195K | $192K | — | — | $19K |
| 2021 | $93K | $93K | — | — | — | $32K |
| 2020 | $73K | $63K | — | — | — | $32K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $144K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$208K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dennis Meeches (director); Barb Esau (director); Leona Meeches (director); Margaret Myran Assiniboine (director); Geneva Smoke (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from National Indigenous Residential School Museum of Canada Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 797573698RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.