Adra Canada
Charitable organization · Newcastle, Ontario · BN 132056813RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($36,119,570) as filed with the CRA.
Adra Canada is a charitable organization based in Newcastle, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $35.4M in revenue and $36.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from donations, 44% from government, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 62 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.9M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 38 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $2.3M in 2024, the largest being $1.8M to Canadian Food Grains Bank. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $19.8M in 2020 to $35.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
ADRA is the global humanitarian agency of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Globally the ADRA network provides assistance to individuals in over 120 countries regardless of their ethnicity religion or political affiliation. ADRA Canada improves the lives of hundreds of thousands of people each year through our efforts to relieve poverty by providing food clothing shelter and other basic supplies to persons in need; to improve skills and practices in forestry husbandry agriculture and horticulture in underdeveloped and developing countries; to improve the quality of drinking water in …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $35.4M | $36.1M | $31.1M | $1.3M | $2.3M | $8.9M |
| 2023 | $39.5M | $39.1M | $34.6M | $1M | $2.6M | $9.6M |
| 2022 | $24.2M | $24.5M | $20.1M | $766K | $2.8M | $9.2M |
| 2021 | $19.7M | $18.4M | $15.6M | $731K | $1.3M | $9.5M |
| 2020 | $19.8M | $19.8M | $17.6M | $717K | $709K | $8.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.3M to 10 qualified donees:
- Canadian Food Grains Bank$1.8M
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$210K
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church$115K
- British Columbia Conference- Seventh-day Adventist Church$63K
- Maritime Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Inc.$37K
- Seventh-day Adventist Church in Newfoundland & Labrador$26K
- New Life Worship Centre$25K
- Manitoba- Saskatchewan Conference$23K
- Seventh-day Adventist Church Quebec Conference$22K
- Community Care Network$20K
Received $2.9M from 62 charities:
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Canada$2.2M
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$123K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$100K
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church$66K
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$63K
- The Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church$50K
- Really Living Seventh-day Adventist Church$48K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$22K
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$21K
- Church in the Valley A Seventh-day Adventist Church$16K
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc/association de la Banque Canadienne de Grains Inc.$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Seventh Day Adventist Church (british Columbia Conference)$11K
- Graham Munro Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Calgary Foundation$10K
- Seventh Day Adventist Church (british Columbia Conference)$6,445
- The Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church$6,330
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,000
- Heart Lake Seventh-day Adventist Church$5,700
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$4,500
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$3,705
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$3,650
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$3,040
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
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions38
- Total compensation, all staff$2.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Musafili (director); Jean Levy (director); Paul Llewellyn (director); Walt Kalkan (director); Lucille Galdamez (director); Donna Lee Lehmann (director); Cyril Millett (director); Adam Kis (director); Dave Miller (director); Valerie Krym (director); Evaldo Vicente (director); Meredith Palafox Cudanin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Adra Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132056813RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.