Peace River Regional Women's Shelter Society
Publicly funded institution · Peace River, Alberta · BN 119087252RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,534,378) as filed with the CRA.
Peace River Regional Women's Shelter Society is a charitable organization based in Peace River, Alberta, 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 $1.5M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 92% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $28K.
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 51% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
1. Residential program provides safe short-term accommodations to women leaving abusive relationships and other women in need. 2. Child care program provides a variety of activities for children who are residents of the shelter. 3. Outreach/follow-up program provides weekly home visits to ex-residents setting up their own households along with assisting non-resident abused women. 4. Public education program provides information sessions on abuse related topics. 5. Intensive case management team provides intentional and intensive specialized support services tailored to the unique need…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1,367 | — | $254K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $816 | — | $300K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $5,912 | — | $303K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1M | $4,190 | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $1.1M | $23K | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $28K from 11 charities:
- Women's Shelters Canada$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,131
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$2,975
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- The Western Communities Foundation$1,051
- Peace River Alliance Church$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$949
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$659
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$108
- United Way of Greater Toronto$58
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carol Van Slyke (chair); Joan Gall (co-chair); Jeffrey Harcourt (secretary-treasurer); Karen Laboucane (director); Normand Duval (director); Amanda Milligen (director); Sandra O'Doherty (executive director); Vivianne Gayton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Peace River Regional Women's Shelter Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119087252RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.