The Bridge Youth & Family Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 119221661RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,124,266) as filed with the CRA.
The Bridge Youth & Family Services Society is a charitable organization based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $14.6M in revenue and $13.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $357K.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 269 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.2M in 2020 to $14.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Addiction services overdose outreach family & crisis counselling children & youth services
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.6M | $13.1M | $11.5M | $78K | — | $7.2M |
| 2023 | $12.6M | $10.3M | $9.1M | $73K | — | $5.8M |
| 2022 | $9.1M | $8.3M | $7.2M | $86K | — | $3.5M |
| 2021 | $8M | $7M | $7M | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $7.2M | $7M | $7M | — | — | -$368K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $357K from 17 charities:
- Sonrise Foundation$250K
- The Colin & Lois Pritchard Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$12K
- Purkids Charitable Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- East Meets West Orphans Foundation$10K
- First West Foundation$7,500
- Central Okanagan Foundation$6,644
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,582
- The Calgary Foundation$5,000
- Kelowna Professional Firefighters Charitable Society$1,000
- Makeway Foundation$685
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$239
- Faith Chapel of Faith Apostolic Ministries$200
- United Way British Columbia-$20K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions269
- Total compensation, all staff$10.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Patrick Spinks (president); Jemison Jackson (vice president); Joyce Galuska (secretary); Mike Wright (treasurer); Juliette Sicotte (director); Tish Lakes (director); Sarah Bauer (director); Jessica Lougheed (director); James Geen (director); Kimberly Pflieger (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Bridge Youth & Family Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119221661RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.