Skookum Jim Friendship Centre
Publicly funded institution · Whitehorse, Yukon · BN 119151686RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2022-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,418,405) as filed with the CRA.
Skookum Jim Friendship Centre is a charitable organization based in Whitehorse, Yukon, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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, 2022, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 57% from government, 33% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2,366.
Compared with 251 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
To better the spiritual emotional mental and physical well-being of nations people and to nurture the survival and protection of the first nations way through services generally defined as health or wellness and education; to foster the way of friendship sharing and understanding among the ages of first nation people and between first nations people and other ways and peoples of the yukon; to honour through these purposes the eill and spirit of skookum jim.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2022
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $2.9M | $3.4M | $3.4M | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $3.1M | $2.4M | — | — | $2M |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $2.5M | $2.1M | — | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2,366 from 3 charities:
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 positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2022 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2022)
James Kochea (director); Laurence Patterson-Smith (director); Kelli Backstrom (director); Nantsana Murphy (director); Stacy Lewis (president); Charles Pugh (secretary); Tanya Silverfox (director); Gail Anderson (vice president); Janice Lafferty (treasurer); Giorgianna Low (director).
As listed on its 2022 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Skookum Jim Friendship Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119151686RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.