Blumenort Mennonite Church
Charitable organization · Gretna, Manitoba · BN 106799109RR0001 · Christianity
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($399,408) as filed with the CRA.
Blumenort Mennonite Church is a charitable organization based in Gretna, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $405K in revenue and $399K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% 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 43% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $77K in 2024, the largest being $12K to Salem Foundation Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
(1) missions-local & overseas (2) sunday school (3) boys & girls clubs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $405K | $399K | $269K | — | $77K | $102K |
| 2023 | $470K | $478K | $460K | — | $76K | $96K |
| 2022 | $433K | $475K | $353K | — | $69K | $103K |
| 2021 | $410K | $367K | $157K | — | $69K | $145K |
| 2020 | $389K | $322K | $147K | — | $62K | $102K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $77K to 21 qualified donees:
- Salem Foundation Inc.$12K
- The Mennonite Collegiate Institute$12K
- Baptist Missionary Society of Latin America$12K
- The Gardens on Tenth Inc.$8,500
- Salem Home Inc.$6,800
- Youth for Christ Altona Inc.$6,750
- Winkler & District Food Cupboard Inc.$3,000
- Central Station Community Centre Inc.$2,500
- Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada Inc.$2,000
- Teen Challenge of Central Canada Inc.$1,750
- Mennonite Brethren Church$1,250
- ShareWord Global Canada$1,200
- The Bunker Youth Ministry Inc.$1,000
- Eden Foundation Inc.$1,000
- Eagles Wings Children's Village Inc.$1,000
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc/association de la Banque Canadienne de Grains Inc.$1,000
- Mennonite Central Committee Manitoba Inc.$750
- Winkler & District Christmas Cheerboard Inc.$500
- Rhineland Empty Stocking Fund$500
- Mennonite Disaster Service Canada Inc.$500
- Manitoba Association of Women's Shelters Inc.$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$115K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Char Klassen (music chair); Jaime Falk (nominations chair); Mitchell Peters (finance chair); Grant Fehr (missions co-chair); Scott Fehr (vice chair); Jodi Friesen (secretary); Marlin Froese (chair); Gerry Giesbrecht (youth pastor); Esther Klippenstein (education chair); Lori Miller (treasurer); Esther Zacharias (mission chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Blumenort Mennonite Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106799109RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.