Click - Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 860301886RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($267,248) as filed with the CRA.
Click - Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $381K in revenue and $267K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $127K.
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 44% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $190K in 2024, the largest being $88K to The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $85K in 2020 to $381K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Click provides grants to charitable organizations that promote the facilitate life opportunities for at-risk children and youth who face obstacles to success for various economic and social reasons across vancouver. A semi-annual grants cycle (spring and fall) was implemented in the fall of 2004 and has continued since. Click has initiated various city-wide activities to mark inner city kids week (ickw) in vancouver.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $381K | $267K | $33K | $31K | $195K | $219K |
| 2023 | $268K | $253K | $37K | $9,153 | $199K | $106K |
| 2022 | $213K | $220K | — | $5,090 | $211K | $91K |
| 2021 | $166K | $132K | — | $3,763 | $120K | $97K |
| 2020 | $85K | $126K | — | — | $118K | $63K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Other gifts$180,906
- Receipted donations$177,926
- From other charities$19,557
- Investment income$2,601
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $190K to 25 qualified donees:
- The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver)$88K
- Kiwassa Neighbourhood Services Association$14K
- Growing Chefs Society$9,000
- Vines Art Festival Society$6,500
- East Side Family Place Society$6,000
- United for Literacy$5,000
- Girls Who LEAP: Lead to Empower & Act with Purpose Society$5,000
- Eya Environmental Youth Alliance Society$5,000
- Downtown Eastside Neighbourhood House Society$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$5,000
- Britannia Support Society$5,000
- The Britannia Community Services Centre Society$5,000
- Leave Out Violence (LOVE) Society BC$4,000
- A.s.t.c. Science World Society$4,000
- Miscellaneous Productions Society$3,000
- Theatre Replacement Society$2,640
- The Kidsafe Project Society$2,500
- Vancouver Choral Arts Society$2,500
- Saint James Music Academy$2,500
- Some Assembly Arts Society$2,500
- Red Fox Healthy Living Society$2,500
- Collingwood Neighbourhood House Society$2,500
- The Writers' Exchange Society$2,000
- Vancouver Moving Theatre Society$1,000
- The Green Thumb Players Society$1,000
Received $127K from 16 charities:
- The Palmer Family Foundation$30K
- The Wolrige Foundation$15K
- Grace Community (ancaster) Christian Reformed Church$14K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$8,509
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,228
- JTC Heersink Foundation$8,000
- ZLC Foundation$6,500
- The McLean McCuaig Foundation$5,000
- Diamond Foundation$5,000
- The Lum Family Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- The Dayhu Family Foundation$5,000
- A.e. (ted) and Deanna M. Turton Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$4,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,650
- Vancouver Foundation$750
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Catherine Atyeo (vice president); Vivian Chow (director); Angelina Dean (director); Annie Ehman (secretary); Mike Evans (director); Shane Macarthue (treasurer); Brenda Penton (president); Ronald Scott (director); Karen Stanley (director); Lisa Wong (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Click - Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 860301886RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.