Purkids Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 758344931RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($295,098) as filed with the CRA.
Purkids Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $353K in revenue and $295K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $13K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 23 qualified donees totalling $205K in 2024, the largest being $106K to Central Okanagan Hospice Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $181K in 2021 to $353K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To fund facilitate promote and carry out activities and programs which are beneficial to the community as a whole
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $353K | $295K | $5,073 | — | $205K | $93K |
| 2023 | $513K | $548K | $11K | — | $458K | $35K |
| 2022 | $276K | $244K | $9,435 | — | $162K | $70K |
| 2021 | $181K | $143K | $18K | — | $77K | $38K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $205K to 23 qualified donees:
- Central Okanagan Hospice Association$106K
- Nanaimo-Ladysmith Schools Foundation$10K
- The Bridge Youth & Family Services Society$10K
- Compassion Canada$9,707
- British Columbia's Children's Hospital Foundation$9,000
- United Way British Columbia$8,550
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Society of British Columbia$8,000
- Kelowna General Hospital Foundation$6,320
- Third Space Charity Society$6,064
- Mamas for Mamas$5,700
- The Children's Family House Society of B.C.$5,282
- Kelowna Christian Center Society$4,843
- BizKids Practical Education ASSN$3,500
- Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division$2,698
- YMCA of Southern Interior BC Association$2,500
- Project Literacy Central Okanagan Society$2,500
- Cassie and Friends: A Society for Children with Juvenile Arthritis and Other Rheumatic Diseases$1,069
- Metro Community$1,000
- British Columbia Lung Association$1,000
- Victoria Disability Resource Centre$750
- The Salvation Army Okanagan Central Community Church$172
- Kelowna Visual and Performing Arts Centre Society$90
- Canadahelps Canadon$31
Received $13K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$80K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lane Martin (director); April Martin (director); Neil Grant (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Purkids Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 758344931RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.