The Tree of Peace Friendship Centre
Publicly funded institution · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories · BN 119441780RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,517,011) as filed with the CRA.
The Tree of Peace Friendship Centre is a charitable organization based in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 71% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $26K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Community wellness program programs and services organizational capacity education program core program urban programming for indigenous people new horizons
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 | $1.2M | $107K | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $1.1M | $189K | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.4M | $1.1M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.2M | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $93K | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $26K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$775K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Maggie Lafferty (senate member); Ernest Abel (executive director); Anthony Spink (secretary treasurer); Philip Liske (senate member); Curtis Coleman (chair); Jessica Heron-Sauder (deputy chair); Marie Blackduck (senate member); James Ross (senate member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Tree of Peace Friendship Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119441780RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.