Bibles for Canada Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 839767019RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($214,531) as filed with the CRA.
Bibles for Canada Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $155K in revenue and $215K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 88% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $123K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $76K in 2020 to $155K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Promote the Christian Faith through the free distribution of Bibles and related Christian materials motivate and help people to read and understand the Bible conduct Bible studies and build up neighbourhood Bible reading groups.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $155K | $215K | $215K | — | — | $305K |
| 2023 | $135K | $90K | $90K | — | — | $414K |
| 2022 | $171K | $209K | $209K | — | — | $287K |
| 2021 | $137K | $62K | $62K | — | — | $404K |
| 2020 | $76K | $32K | $32K | — | — | $330K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $123K from 15 charities:
- The Church in Burnaby$15K
- The Church in Richmond$15K
- The Church in Vancouver$15K
- The Church (of the Saints) in Calgary$15K
- The Local Church Of the Saints in Toronto$15K
- The Church in Surrey$15K
- The Church (of the Saints) in Edmonton$10K
- The Church of the Londoners$5,501
- The Church in Kitchener$5,000
- The Church (of the Saints) in Winnipeg Inc.$4,000
- The Local Church of the Saints in Mississauga$3,000
- The Church of the Hamiltonians$2,000
- The Church in Coquitlam$1,500
- The Church of the Ottawans$1,000
- The Church in Markham$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Total compensation, all staff$63K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chew Leong (director); Bruce McClay (director); Robert Lim (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bibles for Canada Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 839767019RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.