N'Swakamok Indigenous Friendship Centre
Publicly funded institution · Sudbury, Ontario · BN 119063717RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,678,698) as filed with the CRA.
N'Swakamok Indigenous Friendship Centre is a charitable organization based in Sudbury, Ontario, 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 $5.7M in revenue and $4.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $729.
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 94% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.7M in 2020 to $5.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The development and implementation of programs and activities to serve social cultural and recreational needs of the native community
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.7M | $4.7M | $4.6M | $956 | — | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $4.6M | $4M | $3.7M | $12K | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $4.5M | $4.1M | $3.9M | $8,621 | — | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $3.9M | $3.8M | $2,633 | — | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $3.7M | $3.6M | $3.4M | $6,964 | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $729 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tamara Moore (secretary); Theresa Pelletier (director); Jody Hobbs-Shawana (director); Norman Beauvais (vice president); Jacob Gauthier (president); Michel Taryn (treasurer); Kalah-Rayne Pottier (youth).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from N'Swakamok Indigenous Friendship Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119063717RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.