Kelowna Gospel Mission Society
Publicly funded institution · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 107562043RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($9,823,234) as filed with the CRA.
Kelowna Gospel Mission Society is a charitable organization based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under christianity. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $9.5M in revenue and $9.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 52% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 47 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $548K.
Compared with 81 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 88 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4.9M in 2020 to $9.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Provided emergency shelter services to people experiencing homelessness provide case management meals for harm reduction services to people sheltering outside through outreach services operated thrift store operated low-cost dental clinic increased outreach service by adding sprinter vans to their fleet operated food truck operated men's and women's transitional housing program operated women's therapeutic housing program provided psychosocial/spiritual support to program participants
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.5M | $9.8M | $7.9M | $602K | — | $4.3M |
| 2023 | $9.2M | $8.5M | $5.8M | $626K | — | $4.6M |
| 2022 | $8.6M | $8.8M | $7M | $568K | — | $4.1M |
| 2021 | $7.1M | $6.2M | $5.1M | $359K | — | $4.3M |
| 2020 | $4.9M | $4.8M | $3.5M | $364K | — | $3.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $548K from 47 charities:
- Sonrise Foundation$100K
- United Way British Columbia$91K
- The Henry and Gertrude Sawatzky Family Foundation Inc.$60K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$55K
- Abundance Canada$42K
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$39K
- The Calgary Foundation$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Traine Charitable Foundation$10K
- Waldhaus Foundation$9,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$7,912
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,385
- Kelowna Gospel Fellowship Church$5,000
- The Merrifield Family Foundation$5,000
- Mission Creek Alliance Church$4,800
- Grace Baptist Church$4,000
- Grace Lutheran Church of West Bank$3,350
- The Foundation Office.ca$3,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$3,000
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- Sunridge Community Church$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,497
- Emmanuel Church of Westbank$2,400
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,230
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
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions88
- Total compensation, all staff$6.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeremy Fedderson (treasurer); Marshall Peters (secretary); Jennifer Jackson (chair); Wendy Thiessen (vice-chair); Phillip Wagler (director); Brad Klassen (director); Mary Lapointe (director); Johannes Saufferer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kelowna Gospel Mission Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107562043RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.