During COVID, 512 donations to 175 unique charities across North America. Funding filled a gap where government and other institutions funders were missing.

Getting funding where it is needed most, in a timely fashion - 56% of new donations deployed within the year donated.

Donations from our Donor Advised Funds grew by over 800% in 3 years.

Over 50% of all donations were directed to Education & Human Services.

Over the past three years, K&C has advised on deploying almost $26 million to local, national and international charities. Our clients and donors are influencing change across a wide spectrum of issues.

What are Human Services?

According to The Human Services Guide, Human Services are:

"Helping people find stability, and can include everything from providing for basic needs like food and shelter to offering guidance, counseling and substance abuse treatment with the goal of promoting self-sufficiency and happiness in people’s lives."

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, Wellcome.org estimates that 250 million people will be pushed into poverty by 2030, with extreme poverty rising for the first time in 20 years. The impact has had ripple effects; mental health, food security, homelessness, gender equality and addictions have seen large increases. The impact has disproportionally affected poor and highly segregated social groups, putting pressure on social systems and resources already spread thin.

Many of our foundations and donor-advised funds are leading the way when tackling these issues from both the education and prevention side and supporting direct services for those in need.

Giving & Receiving

About Karma & Cents

Over the past two years, we have worked with the Hunter Family Foundation to tackle mental health resources for emerging adults. We held working sessions to validate assumptions, identify gaps, and find opportunities. In the spring of 2022, the Converge Mental Health Network was federally registered.

To date it has released studies on Canada's mental health landscape and is in the process of rolling out an Information & Knowledge Sharing Framework across Alberta.

In November 2022, K&C hosted thirty Grantees and the Trustees of the Silver Gummy Foundation in Calgary for their annual summit on Gender-Based Violence. The focus was on how colonization has impacted gender identity and violence in Canada’s Indigenous communities.

This year's summit is exploring topics around masculinity and social norms.

We don’t fund problems, we finance solutions.

We work with philanthropists who want to solve wicked social issues. Understanding our client’s priorities is key to finding meaningful solutions. We don't just pull up a Google search list of potential charities and ask you to write a cheque. By getting to know the players, understanding the landscape and identifying industry experts on the issue, we create measurable charitable giving strategies.

For almost 30 years collectively, our team has been guiding individuals, families and corporations through social impact conversations and co-creating solutions to complex problems facing North American communities. The K&C Social Impact Lab creates unique experiences for donors to dive into meaty issues in their communities in order to identify the ideal approach for their philanthropic vision.

Whether it is creating a "Giving Plan" roadmap, creating unique learning opportunities for NextGen donors, designing a funding program to leverage others in your network, rapidly prototyping solutions alongside Grantees, or creating an impact portfolio alongside your wealth advisors with both social and financial returns, K&C is here to help.

As part of our commitment to advancing the philanthropic discourse in North America, we have published our client case studies. Please feel free to share and more importantly, ask us questions!