Northern Nishnawbe Education Council
Publicly funded institution · Sioux Lookout, Ontario · BN 107781924RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($41,837,027) as filed with the CRA.
Northern Nishnawbe Education Council is a charitable organization based in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $41.8M in revenue and $41.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $30K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 95% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 202 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Secondary school support and educations programs post-secondary school support and education programs sutdent boarding home programs operations and maintenance of secondary schools teacher retention and recruitment special education programs. Suicide Prevention the Pelican Falls Wellness Centre and Wake the Giant program continued in 2024
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $41.8M | $41.8M | $38.3M | $541K | — | $18.6M |
| 2023 | $32.2M | $32.2M | $28.7M | $1.4M | — | $18.6M |
| 2022 | $32.7M | $24.3M | $431K | — | — | $24.3M |
| 2021 | $28M | $19.1M | — | $19K | — | $15.8M |
| 2020 | $30.4M | $31.2M | $28.9M | — | — | $3.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $30K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions202
- Total compensation, all staff$16.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Florence Sanderson (secretary/treasurer); Wesley Russell (director); Brown Ronald (vice-chair); Turtle McDonald (director); Meekis Terrance (director); Mary Anne Panacheese-Skunk (director); Donald Meekis (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northern Nishnawbe Education Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107781924RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.