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Registered charity

Nishnawbe-aski Legal Services Corporation

Legal name on the register: NISHNAWBE-ASKI LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION

CA-E-9WJ5-9T3PActiveCanada (federal)3 independent sources
$16.2MRevenue reported
$10.3MPublic money on record
15On the board
8Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
86/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
Identifier
CA-E-9WJ5-9T3P
Address
678 City Road, Fort William First Nation, ON, P7J 1K3
Earliest record
October 14, 2014
Identifiers held
Charity registration
137530606RR0001
Business number
137530606
Corporation number
2566079
Who controls this corporation. Federal corporations must file their Individuals with Significant Control with Corporations Canada. That register is not redistributed here — it can only be searched by corporation name or number, by design, so it cannot become a lookup by a person’s name. Search it directly for corporation number 2566079: Corporations Canada — federal corporation search.
Evidence depth
86/100
Deep record

This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.

Identityregistrations and identifiers
Operationsmunicipal licences
Filed figuresfinancials or workforce
Public moneycontracts or grants
Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links
Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements
Public activitypermits and recorded work
Regulatorydecided findings
Dated historyevents with effective dates

Additional graph evidence outside the score: 8 organisation connections.

Public footprint · version 1

Where this organisation appears in public records

Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.

Footprint is not performance.

A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.

Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration
100
Operationslicences and operating places
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
61
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
74
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
79

Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.

Registrations
RegistrarInstrumentNumberRegisteredStatus
Canada Revenue AgencyRegistered charity137530606RR0001—Registered
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act2566079October 14, 2014Active
Board and officers on record (15)
NamePositionServing sinceStatus
Amos WesleyDIRECTORDecember 13, 2023current
Andrea Yesno-linklaterYOUTH COUNCILDecember 13, 2023current
Ramon KataquapitYOUTH COUNCILDecember 13, 2023current
Cory MeekisDIRECTORDecember 13, 2022current
Anna Betty AchneepineskumEX-OFFICIOAugust 11, 2021current
Lisa EchumDIRECTORFebruary 16, 2021current
Barney BatiseEAST ELDEROctober 13, 2020current
Jason BatiseSECRETARY TREASURERMay 10, 2020current
Jim BeardyCHAIRApril 1, 2017current
Frank MckayVICE CHAIRApril 1, 2017current
Sarah WabooseELDER CENTRALApril 1, 2017current
Tom WassaykeesicDIRECTORApril 1, 2017current
Simon WinnepetongaDIRECTORApril 1, 2017current
Ashley BachYOUTH REPRESENTATIVEFebruary 16, 2021ended June 30, 2023
Rebecca FridayDIRECTOROctober 13, 2020ended June 30, 2023

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Organisations sharing a filed director name (8)

2 of them share more than one name, which is a much stronger link than the rest. Those are listed first.

OrganisationKindNames in common
NAN Charitable Trust
CA-E-H9W1-Q3CB
Registered charity2
Oshki-Pimache-O-Win: The Wenjack Education Institute
CA-E-0594-672D
Registered charity2
Achieving The Dream Through Education
CA-E-6QYW-4CRS
Registered charity1
Ashawaabic Ministries
CA-E-VXQ7-650Z
Registered charity1
Gathering Of Rivers For Community Care
CA-E-8B2Z-TJ28
Registered charity1
Ojibway And Cree Cultural Centre
CA-E-FXEK-Z7KB
Registered charity1
Tikinagan Child And Family Services
CA-E-JBJ9-C3AB
Registered charity1
Windigo First Nation Council
CA-E-FPC1-1RVG
Registered charity1
One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.

The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.
What it raised and spent — year ended March 31, 2024
Total revenue
$16,202,647
Total spending
$15,830,790
Total assets
$4,928,774
Total liabilities
$3,024,576
Management and administration8.5% · $1.3M · line 5010
Not broken down in the return91.5% · $14.5M
These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.

A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.
Public money on record
Federal grants and contributions
$10,340,492

across 13 agreements, 2017–2025

2017$2.6M
2020$379K
2021$3.2M
2022$1.7M
2023$2.0M
2024$24K
2025$372K
Paying institutionAwardsValue
Department of Justice Canada10$7,583,176
Public Safety Canada1$2,008,871
Canadian Heritage1$376,788
Indigenous Services Canada1$371,657
Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.
Timeline
  1. Federal grant — Indigenous Services Canada$371,657
  2. Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$23,700
  3. Federal grant — Public Safety Canada$2,008,871
  4. Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$35,870
  5. Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$400,000
  6. Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$999,994
  7. Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$51,000
  8. Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$250,000
  9. Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$3,099,999
  10. Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$99,990
  11. Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$376,788
  12. Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$2,300
  13. Federal grant — Department of Justice Canada$2,620,323
  14. Registered — Canada Not-for-profit Corporations Act
Why this is one record

5 public datasets from 3 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

  • Shares business number 137530606
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)
  • Same name and postal code P7J 1K3
    asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada)

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from
DatasetLast capturedCadenceCoverage keptHealth
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 2, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 5, 2026P1Y1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns)
Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 8, 2026P1Y2 captures · 1 comparisonscurrent
Federal corporations — active not-for-profit, co-operative and boards of trade
Corporations Canada (Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada) · Open Government Licence – Canada
October 24, 2026P1D11 captures · 10 comparisonsdue
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions
Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada
September 3, 2026P3M1 captures · 0 comparisonscurrent
Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.

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