Kelowna General Hospital Foundation
Public foundation · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 118978733RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,088,438) as filed with the CRA.
Kelowna General Hospital Foundation is a public foundation based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $18.8M in revenue and $15.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 55 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.9M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $7.2M in 2024, the largest being $6M to Interior Health Authority. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
The KGH Foundation funds facilitates & promotes activities which improve the provision of health and health care to those living within the southern interior of BC and within the referral area of the Kelowna General Hospital (KGH). Donations endowments trusts sponsorship property bequests and social enterprise revenues are generated to invest in health care services provided by Interior Health at Kelowna General Hospital; Cottonwoods Extended Care Home; Brookhaven Care Home; Three Links Manor; David Lloyd Jones care homes; the Central Okanagan Hospice House; Urgent Primary Care Centres …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $18.8M | $15.1M | $3.2M | $3.6M | $7.3M | $54.9M |
| 2023 | $14.6M | $14.9M | $3.1M | $4M | $6.9M | $51.2M |
| 2022 | $14.7M | $8.1M | $2.7M | $1.4M | $3.3M | $51.5M |
| 2021 | $14.1M | $14.7M | $2M | $1.3M | $10.6M | $44.9M |
| 2020 | $12.7M | $7.8M | $2.2M | $1.3M | $3.4M | $45.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $7.2M to 20 qualified donees:
- Interior Health Authority$6M
- Canadian Mental Health Association Kelowna and District Branch$348K
- YMCA of Southern Interior BC Association$105K
- Royal Inland Hospital Foundation$102K
- East Kootenay Foundation for Health$102K
- South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation$102K
- Kootenay Boundary Regional Hospital and Health Foundation Society$102K
- Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation$102K
- Shuswap Hospital Foundation$71K
- Kootenay Lake Hospital Foundation$71K
- Opera Kelowna Society$42K
- March of Dimes Canada$30K
- The University of British Columbia$26K
- Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society$18K
- Living Positive Resource Centre Okanagan$10K
- United Way British Columbia$10K
- ST. Paul's Foundation of Vancouver$5,000
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$100
- University Hospitals Kingston Foundation$100
- Stratford General Hospital Foundation$100
Received $3.9M from 55 charities:
- The Jim Pattison Foundation$1M
- Central Okanagan Foundation$608K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$446K
- Central Okanagan Foundation$274K
- The Merrifield Family Foundation$190K
- The Great Big Red Barn Foundation$185K
- The Calgary Foundation$167K
- The Merrifield Family Foundation$150K
- Abundance Canada$129K
- MR. and MRS. P.a. Woodward's Foundation$100K
- Ken and Teresa Sargent Family Charitable Foundation$100K
- The Merrifield Family Foundation$100K
- Variety - the Children's Charity of BC$50K
- Longhedge Foundation$50K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$37K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$32K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$25K
- Community Foundation of the North Okanagan$20K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$18K
- HAB Family Foundation$15K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$14K
- Aqueduct Foundation$11K
- BenefAction Foundation$11K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allison Young (ceo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kelowna General Hospital Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118978733RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.