Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society
Charitable organization · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 118843523RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,188,448) as filed with the CRA.
Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society is a charitable organization based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $7.2M in revenue and $7.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from government, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $266K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 14% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $259K in 2024, the largest being $84K to Central Okanagan Food Bank. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.9M in 2020 to $7.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The society provides support for the mental physical and spiritual well-being of all people through the development of community based services while providing a gathering place that encourages aboriginal people and the whole community to preserve share and promote aboriginal cultural distinctiveness. The society offers activities for infants children youth and elders including but not limited to free meals workshops counseling for mental health addictions family support poverty law support and chronic disease prevention. The society offers cultural programs for children ages 6-12. T…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.2M | $7.2M | $4.7M | — | $259K | -$546K |
| 2023 | $5M | $6.9M | $4.7M | — | $722K | -$1.2M |
| 2022 | $6M | $6.4M | $4.8M | — | — | $58K |
| 2021 | $5.5M | $5.4M | $4.2M | — | — | $415K |
| 2020 | $3.9M | $3.9M | $366K | — | — | $479K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $259K to 6 qualified donees:
- Central Okanagan Food Bank$84K
- People Lived Experience Society$69K
- Urban Matters CCC LTD$59K
- Okanagan Boys and Girls Club$39K
- BC Elders Communication Center Society$5,500
- Kelowna & District Share Society$3,000
Received $266K from 12 charities:
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$96K
- Central Okanagan Foundation$71K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Abundance Canada$14K
- Synod of the Diocese of Kootenay$1,250
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$180
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$66
- Troop Impact Foundation—
- Troop Impact Foundation—
- Troop Impact Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ann Bell (secretary); Robin Dods (treasurer); Jim Ketch (director); Genna Moyer (youth rep member); Karen Vircavs (director); Christina Verhagen (president); William McKenna (director); Stephanie Tooke (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118843523RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.