Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 892128265RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($769,686) as filed with the CRA.
Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $650K in revenue and $770K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from donations, 37% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $470K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 80% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $386K in 2020 to $650K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Supply financial support to ministries in Nicaragua Provide training materials and financial support to churches and schools in Cuba India Philippines Donate to building projects and disaster relief in other countries
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $650K | $770K | $720K | $31K | — | $391K |
| 2023 | $733K | $774K | $743K | $22K | — | $510K |
| 2022 | $611K | $838K | $557K | — | $160K | $551K |
| 2021 | $844K | $631K | $517K | — | $534K | $770K |
| 2020 | $386K | — | $204K | — | — | $531K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $470K from 28 charities:
- United Way Niagara$250K
- Forward Baptist Church Cambridge$82K
- Abundance Canada$25K
- The Builders Church$16K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$12K
- The Foundation Office.ca$10K
- Avant Ministries Canada$9,000
- Temple Baptist Church Cambridge$6,000
- Centerpoint Church Inc.$5,253
- Graceway Baptist Church$5,200
- Lower Derby Baptist Church$5,000
- The Voice of the Martyrs Inc.$5,000
- ST. Andrew's Presbyterian Church$4,500
- Living Hope Bible Church Incorporated$3,862
- The Christian Brethren of Red Deer$3,650
- Ness Avenue Baptist Church Inc.$3,400
- Belleisle Creek Baptist Church$1,750
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,430
- Baptist General Conference of Canada$1,200
- Trustees of Guiding Light Baptist Church of the Municipality of the District of Barrington$1,200
- Westfort Baptist Church$1,200
- Faith Bible Baptist Fellowship Inc.$1,200
- Hatfield Point Baptist Church$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$741
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$25K
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kevin Schular (president); Laura Schular (director); Audrey Harder (director); Edgar Pinero (director); Bruce Ratzlaff (director); Verna Ratzlaff (director); Sivarajah Saiyanthan (treasurer); Paulo Pascoal (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Aid to Special Saints in Strategic Times’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892128265RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.