Child Advocacy Centre of Kelowna Society
Charitable organization · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 736612680RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,834,650) as filed with the CRA.
Child Advocacy Centre of Kelowna Society is a charitable organization based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations, 15% from government, 21% from other charities. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1M.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $500 in 2024, the largest being $500 to Sncewipes Heritage Museum. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $45K in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Our programming consists of services for children and families impacted by child abuse and neglect including forensic investigations & interviewing victim services trauma focused therapy specialized medical assessments legal system facilitation and research. Services for the prevention of child abuse include research publicc awareness & advocacy and education. Ongoing efforts to improve integration amount partner and stakeholder organizations - police children's services health services and victim services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $1.8M | $1.7M | $59K | $500 | $3.1M |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $1.6M | $1.5M | $76K | — | $2M |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.6M | $15.4M | $49K | — | $935K |
| 2021 | $213K | $10K | $14K | $288 | — | $277K |
| 2020 | $45K | — | — | — | — | -$157K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $500 to 1 qualified donee:
- Sncewipes Heritage Museum$500
Received $1M from 20 charities:
- Sonrise Foundation$300K
- The Merrifield Family Foundation$190K
- The Merrifield Family Foundation$150K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$105K
- The Henry and Gertrude Sawatzky Family Foundation Inc.$50K
- Traine Charitable Foundation$50K
- RBC Foundation$40K
- The Calgary Foundation$22K
- Peter & Joanne Brown Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$11K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,994
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,050
- Rotary Club of Kelowna - Ogopogo Charitable Society$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,000
- Rogers' Family Charitable Trust$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$836
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$133
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$689K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ken Carmichael (director); Gary McEwan (director); Rick Oliver (director); Andrew Prior (chair); Debra Mauro (director); Alison Yesilcimen (vice - chair); Steve Thomson (director); Nathan Flavel (director); Jackie Gidda (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Child Advocacy Centre of Kelowna Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 736612680RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.