Bluewater Church
Charitable organization · Sarnia, Ontario · BN 118811967RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,304,989) as filed with the CRA.
Bluewater Church is a charitable organization based in Sarnia, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $267K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $80K in 2024, the largest being $16K to The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $685K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Worship services christian education classes youth activities relief of poverty
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | $80K | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1M | — | $92K | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $926K | $967K | $869K | — | $98K | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $796K | $728K | $622K | — | $106K | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $685K | $631K | $516K | — | $115K | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $80K to 18 qualified donees:
- The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada$16K
- The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada$15K
- Three-Fold Ministries$8,000
- Pregnancy CARE Canada$7,000
- Église baptiste évangélique de St-Jérôme$6,000
- Southwestern Ontario Youth for Christ$5,500
- Power to Change Ministries$5,000
- Lambton Crisis Pregnancy Centre$4,000
- Heritage College$2,040
- Association d'églises baptistes évangéliques au québec$2,000
- Outreach Canada Ministries Inc.$2,000
- The Bridge Gathering$2,000
- Sembeq$2,000
- Sarnia Missionary Church$1,000
- Canadian Centre for Christian Charities$1,000
- NeighbourLink Sarnia-Lambton$1,000
- ShareWord Global Canada$500
- The Rock on Campus$500
Received $267K from 4 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
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$799K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darryl Campbell (board member); Braeden Pries (board member); Bernard Dwyer (board member); Timothy Knapp (board member); David Naus (board member); Jan Van Den Boogaard (board member); Cameron Huizinga (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bluewater Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118811967RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.