Benton Street Baptist Church
Charitable organization · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 118803469RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($978,049) as filed with the CRA.
Benton Street Baptist Church is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $978K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $40K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 83% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 17 qualified donees totalling $138K in 2024, the largest being $33K to The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Worship and fellowship including church services sunday school & associated weekly meeting; programs and seasonal concert. Support of local & canadian registered home and foreign missionaries. Providing for those who require assistance through our benevolent fund.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $978K | $818K | — | $138K | $12.6M |
| 2023 | $952K | $997K | $814K | — | $156K | $12.6M |
| 2022 | $878K | $838K | $708K | — | $113K | $12.1M |
| 2021 | $848K | $768K | $644K | — | $113K | $11.5M |
| 2020 | $764K | $753K | $567K | — | $114K | $11.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $138K to 17 qualified donees:
- The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada$33K
- Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada Inc.$23K
- Trans World Radio Canada$17K
- Caring Partners Global Inc.$13K
- International Missions in Ontario Inc.$11K
- Send International of Canada Inc.$6,000
- Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada$6,000
- The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada$5,400
- Crossworld Inc.$5,400
- Sim Canada$3,000
- Heritage Baptist College and Heritage Theological Seminary$3,000
- Emmanuel Relief and Rehabilitation International of Canada$3,000
- Ethnos Canada$2,500
- Baptist International Missions (in Ontario) Inc.$2,500
- Village Missions of Canada$2,250
- Daystar Native Christian Outreach$1,800
- The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada/alliance Évangélique du Canada$650
Received $40K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$493K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew Silva (director); Brian Boville (director); Christine Peters (director); Doug Fyfe (director); Emily Shields (director); Heather Rosa (director); Jenna Hazzard (assistant secretary); Joseph Elliotson (treasurer); Linda Watson (director); Nancy Little (director); Paul Clifford (director); Seth Lippert (deacon young adult min.); Siegfried Peters (director); Ted Robbins (director); Wendell Beach (director); Eduardo Barrenechea (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Benton Street Baptist Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118803469RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.