Central Okanagan Naturalists' Club
Charitable organization · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 131903569RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($54,747) as filed with the CRA.
Central Okanagan Naturalists' Club is a charitable organization based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $44K in revenue and $55K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from other charities.
Compared with 2,652 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1,525 in 2024, the largest being $1,525 to Central Okanagan Bursary & Scholarship Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $8,241 in 2020 to $44K in 2024.
In its own words
1) providing an annual bursary for high school students entering university. 2) maintaining the okanagan highland trail from mission creek to little white mountain. 3) providing programs for 'young naturalists' (getting young people engaged in appreciation of nature and the environment). 4) conserving the natural environment of the central okanagan (advocating preservation of habitat particularly that threatened by development. 5) preparing hiking and birding guides and maps. 6) adopting a stream. 7)looking after part of mission creek maude-roxby marsh and thomson marsh. 8) providing a…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $44K | $55K | $46K | — | $1,525 | $8,889 |
| 2023 | $24K | $16K | — | — | $8,009 | $20K |
| 2022 | $32K | $26K | $0 | — | $1,525 | $11K |
| 2021 | $6,137 | $6,188 | — | — | $1,525 | $4,584 |
| 2020 | $8,241 | $6,783 | — | — | $1,525 | $5,209 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,525 to 1 qualified donee:
- Central Okanagan Bursary & Scholarship Society$1,525
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Central Okanagan Naturalists' Club’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131903569RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.