Windigo First Nations Council
Publicly funded institution · Sioux Lookout, Ontario · BN 119299576RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($26,317,469) as filed with the CRA.
Windigo First Nations Council is a charitable organization based in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, 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 $28.1M in revenue and $26.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $211.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 59 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Provision of programs for first nations communities in the areas of health education fire prevention and traditional native activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $28.1M | $26.3M | $24.4M | — | — | $9.1M |
| 2023 | $23.7M | $23M | $20.7M | — | — | $7.2M |
| 2022 | $27.4M | $26.9M | $23.7M | — | — | $6.6M |
| 2021 | $26.4M | $25.7M | $20.7M | — | — | $6.1M |
| 2020 | $30.9M | $29.2M | $23.3M | — | — | $5.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $211 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions59
- Total compensation, all staff$4.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Russell Wesley (director); Lorraine Crane (director); William Harper (director); Simon Tait (director); Pauline Drake (director); Leo Sakchekapo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Windigo First Nations Council’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119299576RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.