Athletics for Kids Financial Assistance (b.c.) Society
Charitable organization · North Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 861088045RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($873,305) as filed with the CRA.
Athletics for Kids Financial Assistance (b.c.) Society is a charitable organization based in North Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $879K in revenue and $873K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 59% from donations, 5% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $276K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 83% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $355K in 2020 to $879K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
A4k provides financial assistance towards sports fees based on financial need to ensure that children in bc may have access to amateur sport regardless of their socio-economic status.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $879K | $873K | $71K | $302K | $411K | $871K |
| 2023 | $925K | $628K | $68K | $267K | $240K | $864K |
| 2022 | $566K | $495K | $95K | $146K | $191K | $568K |
| 2021 | $591K | $433K | $121K | — | $0 | $497K |
| 2020 | $355K | $208K | $46K | $11K | — | $326K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $276K from 29 charities:
- District of North Vancouver Firefighters Charitable Society Local 1183 I.A.F.F.$45K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The Victoria Foundation$20K
- West Vancouver Community Foundation$17K
- Seedlings Foundation$15K
- Ames Family Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Vancouver Foundation$13K
- Central Okanagan Foundation$10K
- The Belmont Foundation$10K
- SpencerCreo Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$9,919
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$9,000
- Diamond Foundation$6,000
- Community Foundation of the North Okanagan$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- J&M Longo Family Foundation$5,000
- The Hamber Foundation$4,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,790
- The Coquitlam Foundation$3,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,953
- Port Coquitlam Community Foundation$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$178K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kelly Aslanowicz (director); Ryan Lawrence Brown (director); Keith Calder (director); Matthew Davis (director); Christine Dawes (director); Ross Forman (vice president); Paul Benjamin Harman (treasurer); Annette Johanson (director); Robert Craig Knapton (past president); Mary McGivern (seccretary); Ryan Russell (director); Scott Allen Trotter (president); Joe Germaine (director); Meghan Neufeld (director); Zahra Ramji (director); Lydia Vandenberg (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Athletics for Kids Financial Assistance (b.c.) Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861088045RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.