East Kootenay Foundation for Health
Public foundation · Cranbrook, British Columbia · BN 118878677RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,357,941) as filed with the CRA.
East Kootenay Foundation for Health is a public foundation based in Cranbrook, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.4M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 26% from other charities. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $529K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. 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 1 qualified donee totalling $2.7M in 2024, the largest being $2.7M to Interior Health Authority. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $836K in 2020 to $3.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The foundation provides funds to interior health for hospitals clinics long term care homes and community health programs in the east kootenay region to help meet health care equipment and program needs including educational training.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.4M | $3.4M | — | $183K | $2.7M | $792K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $230K | $60K | $1.3M | $738K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $157K | $66K | $560K | $805K |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $129K | $74K | $1.8M | $697K |
| 2020 | $836K | $842K | $136K | $97K | $479K | $624K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.7M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $529K from 25 charities:
- Invermere Health CARE Auxiliary Society$248K
- Kelowna General Hospital Foundation$102K
- TB Vets Charitable Foundation$40K
- Fondation Sandra Schmirler Foundation$35K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- Canadahelps Canadon$28K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,965
- The Salden Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,500
- Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockies$3,155
- East Kootenay Lutheran Parish$3,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,837
- My Charity Fund$1,355
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$1,027
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$1,000
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$968
- First Baptist Church of Cranbrook$900
- ST. Andrew's United Church$800
- New Life Foursquare Church$800
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada$764
- The Dwelling Place Church Ministries$530
- Abundance Canada$100
- Yasodhara Ashram Society$100
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$276K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mike Calder (chair/director); Wesley Rogers (vice chair/director); Mike Miles (treasurer/director); Christine Hoechsmann (director); Glen Purdy (director); Nadine Walker-Perry (director); Lallah Gunst (director); Robert Klewchuk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from East Kootenay Foundation for Health’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118878677RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.