Opportunities for Employment Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 893394247RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,176,461) as filed with the CRA.
Opportunities for Employment Inc. is a charitable organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, 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 $7.6M in revenue and $7.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $64K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 65 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.9M in 2020 to $7.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The organization assists individuals to achieve greater independence by pursuing and maintaining employment. The organization provides programs that will assist wpg residents achieve full time-long term employment increase the skills of those using the program help them develop relationships with employers. Ongoing programs include: manitoba entrepreurship training and trade (eas / mature worker) ; united way ex-offenders fsl - community home service program helps recipients on eia find work and support the elderly and disabled; fsl - stages of change for persons with a disability p…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.6M | $7.2M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $7.1M | $7M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $6M | $6.1M | $1.2M | — | — | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $5M | $1.4M | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $4.9M | $4.8M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $64K from 2 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
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions65
- Total compensation, all staff$4.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Trudy Turner (secretary); Doug Lochhead (president); Mark Toews (director); Dan Enns (treasurer); AB Freig (vice chair); Phil Trudeau (director); Klaus Lahr (director); Harv Mock (director); Jenna Hmatishin (director); La Royce Faye Batchelor (director); Sylvia Marusyk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Opportunities for Employment Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893394247RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.