Yellowknife Women's Society
Publicly funded institution · Yellowknife, Northwest Territories · BN 129964532RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,150,727) as filed with the CRA.
Yellowknife Women's Society 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 $8.7M in revenue and $9.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $508K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 69 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.9M in 2020 to $8.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Program 1 -we operate an emergency shelter for women in yellowknife and provide housing and support services to members of the community experiencing homelessness and poverty including women escaping family violence. T program 2 - we provide families with information on proper nutrition early childhood development healthy recreation parenting skills and positive family relationships. Program 3 - we distribute food donations to individuals and families experiencing poverty. Program 4 - a street outreach safe ride program to protect the safety of homeless individuals experiencing addiction; …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.7M | $9.2M | $8.4M | $2,904 | — | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $6.8M | $6.4M | — | $1,207 | — | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $5.9M | $5.2M | $7M | $1,414 | — | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $5.8M | $4.6M | $6.4M | $1,663 | — | $3.1M |
| 2020 | $4.9M | $4.7M | $8.1M | $934 | $0 | $2.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $508K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions69
- Total compensation, all staff$4.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lindsay Debassige (director); Sara Komarnisky (director); Bams Rhiana (vice chair); DeFrancis Kassandra (director); Skinner Dawn (director); Meghan Schnurr (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Yellowknife Women's Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129964532RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.