Helping Out People Exploited Society
Charitable organization · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 716171129RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($290,160) as filed with the CRA.
Helping Out People Exploited Society is a charitable organization based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $163K in revenue and $290K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from donations, 24% from government. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $221K.
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 2% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Providing outreach service to the homeless and marginalized women of kelowna and vernon distributing harm reduction supplies hygiene supplies and registering women to additional community service end homelessness initive supporting by city of kelowna. The ally program equips volunteers and workers with training shadowing opportunities supplies and the support necessary to provide harm-reduction emotional support and exit strategies to vulnerable women
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $163K | $290K | $19K | $22K | — | -$11K |
| 2023 | $580K | $573K | $267K | $74K | — | $116K |
| 2022 | $500K | $444K | $369K | — | — | $110K |
| 2021 | $266K | $243K | $174K | — | — | $54K |
| 2020 | $130K | $136K | $92K | — | — | $31K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $221K from 17 charities:
- Canadian Women's Foundation$75K
- Central Okanagan Foundation$50K
- Traine Charitable Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Rotary Club of Kelowna Foundation$6,000
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$5,344
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- Evangel Tabernacle of Kelowna$2,000
- Kelowna Professional Firefighters Charitable Society$2,000
- Community Foundation of the North Okanagan$1,858
- The Calgary Foundation$1,457
- Courage Foundation$600
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$457
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$280
- Link Charity Canada Inc$200
- Troop Impact Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$178K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Naomi Woodland (president); Judie Barta (interim treasurer); Dylan Parkinson (director of information); Britta Elm (bad date program corrdinator).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Helping Out People Exploited Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 716171129RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.