New Opportunities for Women (now) Canada Society
Publicly funded institution · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 872438551RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,479,591) as filed with the CRA.
New Opportunities for Women (now) Canada Society is a charitable organization 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $4.2M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 61% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $306K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 95% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 35 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $4.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Now canada society operates to provide programs services and ongoing support to women youth and children who have experienced addictions mental health challenges and have suffered from abuse. The society also provides emergency shelter as well as transitional housing and affordable supportive living for women with and without children who have proven financial need. The society also offers affordable housing to single men living with their children and families who have proven financial need.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $4.5M | $4.1M | $329 | $0 | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $4M | $3.8M | $2,035 | — | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $3.1M | $3M | $2.2M | $3,697 | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2.2M | $1,150 | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $2.2M | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $306K from 13 charities:
- Central Okanagan Foundation$259K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Gateway Foundation$8,000
- Mark Stober Foundation$7,550
- The Calgary Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$625
- Link Charity Canada Inc$300
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$300
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$44
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$36
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$21
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
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,99912 positions
- $1–39,99919 positions
- Permanent full-time positions35
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dennis Jasper (chair/president); Eileen Sadlowski (treasurer); Louise Abbott (co-chair/vice president); Terry Beaudry (member at large); Tanya Lessard (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from New Opportunities for Women (now) Canada Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872438551RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.