CKNW Kids' Fund
Charitable organization · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 118864842RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,813,986) as filed with the CRA.
CKNW Kids' Fund is a charitable organization based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 37 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 39 qualified donees totalling $652K in 2024, the largest being $70K to Boys and Girls Clubs South Coast BC. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
To provide services to children with special needs: 1. Provide assistance to send children with special needs to speech language and music therapies; 2. Provide assistance to purchase wheelchairs van lifts and other specialized equipement; 3. Provide assistance to purchase hearing and special computer aids; 4. Provide assistance to purchase eye glasses and emergency dental care; 5. Host picnic for 3 600 special needs children; 6. Provide assistance to send children with special needs to summer camps; 7. Provide respite for exhausted parents; 8. Provide assistance to shelters program…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.8M | $287K | $86K | $1.9M | $6.3M |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $2.5M | $1.4M | $127K | $488K | $6.2M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $2.1M | — | — | $485K | $4.7M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $2M | — | — | $441K | $5.2M |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.8M | — | — | $568K | $5.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $652K to 39 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Boys and Girls Clubs South Coast BC$70K
- Learning Buddies Network of the Lower Mainland Society$50K
- Surrey Christmas Bureau Society$40K
- Stream of Dreams Murals Society$40K
- Lower Mainland Christmas Bureau$40K
- Mom to Mom Child Poverty Initiative Society$30K
- Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia$30K
- Access Youth Outreach Services Society$30K
- Lumara Grief and Bereavement CARE Society$27K
- A.s.t.c. Science World Society$25K
- Urban Horse Project Society$20K
- Learning Disbilities Association-Fraser South$18K
- Children's Heart Network of BC Society$16K
- TFL Technology for Living Society$15K
- Stigma-Free Mental Health Society$15K
- Plea Community Services Society of British Columbia$15K
- Pacific Assistance Dogs Society$15K
- Children's Organ Transplant Society of BC$15K
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$13K
- Cerebral Palsy Sports Association of B.C.$11K
- BC Wheelchair Sports Association$10K
- Leave Out Violence (LOVE) Society BC$10K
- Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland$10K
- Boys and Girls Clubs of South Coast BC$10K
- The British Columbia Lions Society for Children with Disabilites$10K
Received $1.1M from 37 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$277K
- Canadahelps Canadon$277K
- Walsh Foundation$108K
- The Rix Family Foundation$100K
- The Giustra Foundation$66K
- Natale and Flora Bosa Foundation$50K
- Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation$50K
- Vancouver Foundation$49K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$24K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$14K
- Aqueduct Foundation$12K
- Openroad Foundation$9,619
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$8,000
- Clem DeGobbi Family Foundation$7,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$5,088
- The Kinder Dream Foundation$5,000
- The Lum Family Foundation$5,000
- Timothy A. Young Family Foundation$5,000
- Djavad Mowafaghian Foundation$5,000
- Vancity Community Foundation$3,931
- United Way British Columbia$3,925
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,395
- Vancouver Police Community Fund (vpcf)$3,000
- The Foundation Office.ca$3,000
- Werner & Helga Hoing Foundation$2,000
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
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$432K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wally Oppal (honorary chair); Chris Gailus (vice-chair); Mike Searson (director); Kathryn Stewart (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from CKNW Kids' Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118864842RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.