Karis Support Society
Publicly funded institution · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 800308751RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,996,155) as filed with the CRA.
Karis Support Society is a private foundation based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under core health care. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from government, 63% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $602K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Providing safe housing support life skills and training for people caught in life altering addiction and mental health challenges
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $2M | $1.7M | — | — | $352K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | — | $116K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.7M | $1.4M | — | — | $56K |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.2M | — | — | $516K |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.5M | $1.2M | — | — | $458K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $602K from 16 charities:
- Krysko Family Foundation$150K
- Central Okanagan Foundation$134K
- The Merrifield Family Foundation$85K
- The Great Big Red Barn Foundation$80K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$60K
- The Kristie Charitable Foundation$40K
- Tamara Foundation$20K
- Traine Charitable Foundation$10K
- Morningstar Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,947
- The Calgary Foundation$2,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,518
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$702
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$198
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$179
- Troop Impact Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Melissa Sargent (director); David Ward (chair secretary); Patt Groening (treasurer); Alyson Vinish (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Karis Support Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 800308751RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.