Baker Charitable Trust
Private foundation · Portage la Prairie, Manitoba · BN 889853990RR0001 · Christianity
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($826,039) as filed with the CRA.
Baker Charitable Trust is a private foundation based in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $246K in revenue and $826K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from donations.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 82% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $18K in 2024, the largest being $8,000 to Providence Christian Services Inc. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $422K in 2020 to $246K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The advancement of religion through the operation of a church and provision of religious instruction. The advancement of education through the operation of a school. The relief of poverty through the provisions of food clothing and temporary shelter to persons in need of such assistance because of their impoverished state.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $246K | $826K | $800K | — | $18K | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $341K | $273K | $198K | — | $14K | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $259K | $960K | $952K | — | $4,700 | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $182K | $224K | $221K | — | $200 | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $422K | $436K | $406K | — | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $18K to 6 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jonathan Maendel (vice president); Mac Waldner (minister); Matthew Waldner (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Baker Charitable Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889853990RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.