Shining Mountains Living Community Services
Publicly funded institution · Red Deer, Alberta · BN 899170260RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,534,467) as filed with the CRA.
Shining Mountains Living Community Services is a charitable organization based in Red Deer, Alberta, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $41K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $669K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
To provide services for aboriginal people on a status-blind basis that build capacity for increased physical mental emotional and spiritual health within marginalized and under -served populations who are or are at risk of being affected by hiv/aids and / or hcv infection regarless of where they resident. Also provides low-income housing in red deer alberta.
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 | $1.5M | — | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.1M | — | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1M | $952K | — | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $1M | $932K | $806K | — | — | $957K |
| 2020 | $669K | $578K | $494K | — | — | $867K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $41K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$647K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shannon Groenick (vice president); Andrea Weiss (treasurer); Brett Chernow (president); Tracey Lajimodiere (director); Nikki Jackman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Shining Mountains Living Community Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899170260RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.