The Kettle Friendship Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 119240356RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($16,984,417) as filed with the CRA.
The Kettle Friendship Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, 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 $17.6M in revenue and $17M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.8M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 96% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 91 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
1. Working with individuals who have been or are presently in psychiatric treatment in the community by providing a centre for socialization and assistance in coping with life skills. 2. Promoting an independent low-key softly directed program on a consistent and regular basis not as a treatment facility but as a complimentary service to all other existing facilities. 3. Providing housing services to individuals who have been or are presently in psychiatric treatment in the community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $17.6M | $17M | $16.7M | $16K | — | $14.2M |
| 2023 | $16M | $15.6M | $15.4M | $39K | — | $13.6M |
| 2022 | $15M | $14.1M | $13.9M | $45K | — | $13.2M |
| 2021 | $13.9M | $13.7M | $13.5M | $56K | — | $12.4M |
| 2020 | $13.2M | $13.5M | $13.1M | $108K | — | $12.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.8M from 22 charities:
- Homeward Foundation$2M
- Streetohome Foundation$400K
- The 625 Powell Street Foundation$128K
- Vancouver Foundation$59K
- Celtic Cross Charitable Foundation Trust$50K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$33K
- Diamond Foundation$30K
- Al Roadburg Foundation$25K
- Sutherland Foundation Inc$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$12K
- Card for Change$5,000
- Card for Change$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,406
- Boffo Foundation$2,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,856
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,800
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,260
- United Way of Calgary and Area$834
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$416
- Jewish Federation of British Columbia$180
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$48
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions91
- Total compensation, all staff$10.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jake Adrian (director); Brenda Brown (retired director); Sarah Corrigall-Brown (chair); Kurt Heinrich (senior director); Suzanne Jean (honorary director); Kimberley Laing (director); Jane Loo (secretary-treasurer); Ian Mackay (managing director); Jeff Rank (director); Kate Reeves (director); Tamara Taggart (honorary director); Anneke Van Vliet (retired director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Kettle Friendship Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119240356RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.