South West Crisis Services Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Swift Current, Saskatchewan · BN 119158780RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($848,965) as filed with the CRA.
South West Crisis Services Inc. is a charitable organization based in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, 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 $889K in revenue and $849K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 86% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $14K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Operation of safe shelter 24 hour crisis phone-line outreach support programs for men/women/children experiencing abuse in-school violence protection education and public awareness.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $889K | $849K | $129K | $17K | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $1M | $878K | $157K | $3,533 | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $866K | $842K | $19K | — | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $844K | $738K | $189K | — | — | $992K |
| 2020 | $757K | $717K | — | — | — | $883K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $14K from 9 charities:
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$7,500
- RBC Foundation$2,500
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$1,625
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$538
- The Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church$500
- Canadahelps Canadon$440
- Abbey and District Combined Appeal$375
- Lancer Portreeve and District Donors Choice$288
- Lancer Portreeve and District Donors Choice$30
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
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$703K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Janelle Thomson (vice president); Tony Curti (director); Tracy O'Donnell (treasurer); Kelsey Krahn (director); Nathan Schindel (director); Caitlin Mann (president); Jennifer Stad (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from South West Crisis Services Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119158780RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.