Outlines for Life Society
Publicly funded institution · Dawson Creek, British Columbia · BN 131921322RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,150,416) as filed with the CRA.
Outlines for Life Society is a charitable organization based in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, 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 $1.1M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
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 59% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $30K in 2024, the largest being $5,000 to Tansi Friendship Centre Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $309K in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The charity provides therapeutic counseling services to families couples and individuals with children to better utilize the spiritual emotional social and physical resources available to them. The charity develops and promotes preventative educational sources aimed at providing families with increasing knowledge and skill development in dealing with potential family crises.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.2M | $1M | — | $30K | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $954K | $829K | — | $15K | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $1M | $778K | $94K | — | — | $3.6M |
| 2021 | $765K | $501K | $398K | — | $50K | $3.3M |
| 2020 | $309K | $441K | $389K | — | — | $3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $30K to 6 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$538K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Lowe (vice chair); Marian Canning (chair); Mike Finkle (treasurer); Stephanie Lowe (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Outlines for Life Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131921322RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.