Garchen Meditation Centre Society
Charitable organization · Kingston, Ontario · BN 788945673RR0001 · Other Religions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($52,157) as filed with the CRA.
Garchen Meditation Centre Society is a charitable organization based in Kingston, Ontario, classified by the CRA under other religions. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $24K in revenue and $52K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $27.
Compared with 13,471 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $1,025 in 2024, the largest being $525 to The Canadian Red Cross Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Khenpo samdup (our spiritual director sam zin) leads buddhist prayers and practice every day on a zoom platform that we manage. He also provides a teaching session on different scholarly topics every saturday and sunday also on zoom and managed by our centre. Sam zin visits our centre at least twice a year during which time we host anyone interested in hearing his teachings. He visits a senior center where a member of our congregation lives every time he comes here. In 2024 as part of sam zin's outreach activities he visited a prison in bc to teach 37 practices of a bodhisattva which I…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24K | $52K | $44K | — | $1,035 | $90K |
| 2023 | $21K | $22K | $20K | — | $1,028 | $117K |
| 2022 | $120K | $46K | $32K | — | $1,500 | $116K |
| 2021 | $33K | $36K | $29K | — | $500 | $42K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,025 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $27 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marilyn Lawson (president); Michele Loux (director); Gail Percy (vice president); Ball Sohi (secretary); Raul Anguita (directors at large); Sam Zin (spiritual director); Christian Anton (directors at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Garchen Meditation Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 788945673RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.