Tamarack Recovery Centre
STAR RATINGCi's Star Rating is calculated based on the following independent metrics: |
✔+
FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Audited financial statements for current and previous years available on the charity’s website.
B+
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
Fair
DEMONSTRATED IMPACT
The demonstrated impact per dollar Ci calculates from available program information.
NEED FOR FUNDING
Charity's cash and investments (funding reserves) relative to how much it spends on programs in most recent year.
82%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 82 cents are available for programs.
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Programs
About Tamarack Recovery Centre:
Founded in 1978, Tamarack Recovery Centre (formerly Tamarack Rehab Inc.) is a private residential addiction treatment and recovery centre in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Tamarack aims to help its clients answer the questions: ‘why did I become addicted?’ and ‘how do I recover?’ Tamarack offers an extended program and continuing after-care to make lasting change as its clients rebuild their lives.
Tamarack Recovery Centre offers: a 60-day residential addiction treatment program for people who have 28 days sober, an extended 78-day program for people who do not yet have 28 days sobriety, and aftercare support with a focus on lifestyle management for long-term recovery.
In F2018, Tamarack Recovery Centre provided 1,187 hours of aftercare services through its Forward in Recovery program. Tamarack also provided 59 student supervision hours by its Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association certified Supervisor.
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Results and Impact
Tamarack Recovery Centre reports that 76% of graduates from its program were sober when contacted via text survey. Additionally, Tamarack reports that 97% of exit survey participants were satisfied or highly satisfied with its workshops and the quality of treatment.
While Ci highlights these key results, they may not be a complete representation of Tamarack Recovery Centre’s results and impact.
Charity Intelligence has given Tamarack Recovery Centre a Fair impact rating based on demonstrated impact per dollar spent.
Impact Rating: Fair

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Finances
Tamarack Recovery Centre is a small charity, with total donations of $55k in F2018. Administrative costs are 18% of revenues (excluding investment income) and fundraising costs are 1% of donations. For every dollar donated, $0.81 go to the cause. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending. Funding reserves of $185k can cover four months of annual program costs.
This charity report is an update that has been sent to Tamarack Recovery Centre for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming.
Updated on June 13, 2019 by Lauren Chin.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending March
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2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Administrative costs as % of revenues | 17.7% | 23.3% | 19.6% |
Fundraising costs as % of donations | 0.8% | 3.9% | 15.5% |
Total overhead spending | 18.4% | 27.2% | 35.0% |
Program cost coverage (%) | 37.0% | 38.7% | 32.8% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2018 | 2017 | 2016 |
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Donations | 55,068 | 59,949 | 66,118 |
Government funding | 440,590 | 455,585 | 398,830 |
Fees for service | 140,635 | 159,063 | 166,488 |
Other income | 2,439 | 549 | 1,550 |
Total revenues | 638,732 | 675,146 | 632,986 |
Program costs | 501,237 | 475,841 | 467,428 |
Administrative costs | 112,784 | 157,541 | 123,766 |
Fundraising costs | 422 | 2,310 | 10,232 |
Total spending | 614,443 | 635,692 | 601,426 |
Cash flow from operations | 24,289 | 39,454 | 31,560 |
Funding reserves | 185,268 | 184,239 | 153,376 |
Salary Information
$350k + |
0 |
$300k - $350k |
0 |
$250k - $300k |
0 |
$200k - $250k |
0 |
$160k - $200k |
0 |
$120k - $160k |
0 |
$80k - $120k |
0 |
$40k - $80k |
2 |
< $40k |
8 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2018
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