Terrace and District Museum Society
Publicly funded institution · Terrace, British Columbia · BN 874967508RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($256,347) as filed with the CRA.
Terrace and District Museum Society is a charitable organization based in Terrace, British Columbia, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $196K in revenue and $256K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 90% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $767 in 2022, the largest being $767 to Indian Residential School Survivors Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Collecting preserving and displaying historical artifacts and archival materials providing tours and program for school children and the general public providing research assistance to requests about local history and digitizing a database of artifacts and archival material in our collection. Maintaining our collection of historical log structures that house many of our exhibits.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $196K | $256K | $244K | $9,503 | — | $105K |
| 2023 | $169K | $147K | — | $2,897 | — | $166K |
| 2022 | $143K | $129K | $122K | $540 | $767 | $148K |
| 2021 | $169K | $152K | $143K | $631 | $585 | $138K |
| 2020 | $168K | $129K | — | — | — | $120K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Granted $767 to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$128K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Harry Murphy (president); Christine Eide (vice president); Edward Harrison (secretary); Heimke Haldane (treasurer); Sheila Pretto (director); Deryl Gurnsey (director); Walter Weismiller (director); Linda Lee (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Terrace and District Museum Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 874967508RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.