Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Community Foundation of the North Okanagan

Public foundation · Vernon, British Columbia · BN 893197376RR0001 · Foundations · website

Your $100, itemizedCommunity Foundation of the North OkanaganFiscal year ended September 30, 2024
Gifts to other charities$84
Charitable programs$11
Management & admin$3
Fundraising$2
TOTAL$100
Registered

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,002,263) as filed with the CRA.

Community Foundation of the North Okanagan is a public foundation based in Vernon, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending September 30, 2024, it reported $6.8M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $777K.

Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.

As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 108 qualified donees totalling $2.4M in 2024, the largest being $995K to Okanagan Village Housing Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.6M in 2020 to $6.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.

In its own words

The Community Foundation of the North Okanagan receives and manages capital contributions in perpetuity and invests this capital so as to generate income. The Foundation distributes a portion of the income in the form of qualifying disbursements to qualified donees pays for operational expenses and retains the remainder of the income to help offset the impact of inflation. The Foundation also receives flow through contributions (as donations from organizations or individuals and from granting programs) that are distributed to qualified donees and non-qualified donees (grantees) either in the…

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$6.8M$3M$330K$61K$2.5M$21.4M
2023$3.4M$1.6M$332K$43K$1.2M$18.2M
2022$102K$2.5M$314K$40K$2.1M$16.9M
2021$4.4M$1.7M$308K$46K$1.4M$19M
2020$2.6M$1.7M$154K$52K$1.5M$16.8M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $2.4M to 108 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:

Full grant ledger — all 108 grants

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $120,000–159,9991 position
  • $80,000–119,9991 position
  • Permanent full-time positions2
  • Total compensation, all staff$271K

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Ryan Cucheron (director); Dominik Dlouhy (chair); Leigha Horsfield (director); Noelle Crombie (director); Steve Brandner (vice chair); Gladys Fraser (secretary); Riminder Gakhal (director); Michael Fotheringham (director); Krista Blankley (director); Jacqueline Gijssen (director); Peter Moore (treasurer).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Community Foundation of the North Okanagan’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893197376RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.