Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre
Publicly funded institution · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 810931154RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,257,502) as filed with the CRA.
Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre is a charitable organization based in Peterborough, Ontario, 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 $3.4M in revenue and $3.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from government, 8% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $125K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $3.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The nogojiwanong friendship centre provides support services to educate acknowledge and promote indigenous culture and improve the quality of life and living to urban indigenous culture and improve the quality of life and living to urban indigenous people in the city of peterborough and surrounding area. During this fiscal year the activities were limited to direct donations given to the centre along with donations through canadahelps.org paypal and charities aid foundation canada. We have a donations button on our website to link supporters to candahelps.org and make donations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.4M | $3.3M | $2.5M | — | — | $859K |
| 2023 | $3M | $29.4M | $2.4M | — | — | — |
| 2022 | $3.1M | $3.1M | $2.7M | — | — | $658K |
| 2021 | $2.8M | $2.6M | $2.5M | — | — | $580K |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $217K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $125K from 6 charities:
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 positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Leighton-Adam Hopkins; Janique Labelle (director); Darlene Tremblay (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nogojiwanong Friendship Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 810931154RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.