NWT Disabilities Council
Publicly funded institution · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories · BN 107789828RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,708,823) as filed with the CRA.
NWT Disabilities Council is a charitable organization based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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, 2023, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $11K.
Compared with 700 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 82% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 27 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $3.3M in 2020 to $1.8M in 2023. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Active living program disabilities awareness week activities early childhood intervention program summer camps for children with disabilities information programs including staffing a 1-800 info line providing learning supports for persons with disabilities community outeach to outlying communities in the nwt respite care programs public policy lobbying and education programs to raise awareness about issues surrounding persons with disabilities nwt autism society
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $36K | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $3.8M | $3.6M | $3.6M | $51K | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $3.5M | $3.5M | $13K | — | $767K |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $3.3M | — | — | $686K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $11K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions27
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brian Carter (chair); Charles McDonald (board member); Clayton Lowther (board member); Deanna Cornfield (secretary); Jessica Wang (board member); Gerald Petrin (board member); Aria Lowther (board member); Cornelius Van Dyke (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from NWT Disabilities Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107789828RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.