Metro Kids Society
Charitable organization · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 861167120RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($288,203) as filed with the CRA.
Metro Kids Society is a charitable organization based in Surrey, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $257K in revenue and $288K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 50% from donations, 30% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $160K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $18K in 2024, the largest being $18K to Surrey Christian Life Assembly. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
During the school year we have a weekly children's program. Every week our volunteers visit over 300 school age children' who live in low income housing throughout Surrey and invite them to the program on Saturday morning. On Saturday we run 4 bus routes to pick up the children and about 120 attend each week. We also have a weekly program preteens and another for youth in secondary school. As part of these programs we also have a leadership training and mentoring program for youth who want to become volunteers and leaders in our various programs. In summer months we run our children's programs…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $257K | $288K | $214K | $5,503 | $18K | $353K |
| 2023 | $706K | $350K | $258K | $8,454 | $64K | $460K |
| 2022 | $278K | $262K | $262K | $7,897 | — | $105K |
| 2021 | $299K | $284K | $259K | $9,244 | — | $11K |
| 2020 | $192K | $196K | $143K | $8,804 | — | -$4,699 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $18K to 1 qualified donee:
- Surrey Christian Life Assembly$18K
Received $160K from 14 charities:
- Brooke and Tracey Wade Foundation$30K
- David Ash Family Foundation$27K
- Christian Life Assembly$25K
- Sunday Line Communications Society$20K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$13K
- The Christian Broadcasting Associates Inc.$12K
- The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada British Columbia and Yukon District Society$12K
- Metro City Church$6,932
- Living Waters Church - Fort Langley$6,250
- City Dream Centre Society$2,500
- Five Corners Pentecostal Church$2,400
- Simple Churches of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$1,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$895
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$539
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$163K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carl Willis (board member); Brian Kirkwood (board member); Karen Jackson (recording secretary); Mark Frohlich (board member); Graham Hanson (executive director); Michael Brownlee (director); Ezekiel Hasiuk (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Metro Kids Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861167120RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.