Canadian National Christian Foundation
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 863736310RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($44,248,413) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian National Christian Foundation is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $60M in revenue and $44.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from donations, 46% from other charities. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $26.9M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 676 qualified donees totalling $41.7M in 2024, the largest being $24.6M to Oral Roberts University. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $31.8M in 2020 to $60M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Promotion of charitable giving options to donors while they live or through their estate; to provide management of those funds entrusted to our administration through donor-advised funds and facilitate their distribution to charity.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $60M | $44.2M | $1.2M | — | $41.7M | $91.5M |
| 2023 | $28.1M | $18.6M | $2M | — | $16.1M | $75.6M |
| 2022 | $24.3M | $29.7M | $3.4M | — | $25.9M | $65.2M |
| 2021 | $42.7M | $17.7M | $1.1M | — | $16.1M | $70.9M |
| 2020 | $31.8M | $22.3M | $676K | — | $21.5M | $45.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $41.7M to 676 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Oral Roberts University$24.6M
- Fellowship of Israel Related Ministries Canada$2.5M
- Warrack Family Foundation$1.4M
- The Samaritan's Purse - Canada$1.3M
- The Voice of the Martyrs Inc.$680K
- One Way Ministries$300K
- Crossroads Christian Communications Incorporated$299K
- Base Church$277K
- Vernon Jubilee Hospital Foundation$260K
- Compassion Canada$242K
- The Great Commission Foundation$235K
- Power to Change Ministries$204K
- International Fellowship of Christians and Jews of Canada$203K
- ShareWord Global Canada$196K
- Mission of Rural Egypt (m.o.r.e.)$182K
- Grace Bible Church of Vernon$160K
- Young Life of Canada$153K
- Worldserve Ministries Inc.$151K
- Youth for Christ/canada$149K
- The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada$143K
- Mohabat Church of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$142K
- Willow Creek Baptist Church$140K
- First Evangelical Free Church of Calgary$127K
- Catholic Social Services$125K
- Pioneers Canada$117K
Received $26.9M from 31 charities:
- World Charitable Foundation of Canada$19.1M
- Ezra Institute for Contemporary Christianity$3.9M
- The Foundation Office.ca$1.4M
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$514K
- The Damascus Road Foundation$381K
- Peoples Ministries Inc.$272K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$222K
- BenefAction Foundation$164K
- Fondation Logos$150K
- Springs of Living Water Centre Inc.$138K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$116K
- Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto$100K
- Gateway Foundation$100K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$90K
- Harvest Foundation$50K
- The Charis Foundation$50K
- Abundance Canada$37K
- Jonathon D. Fischer Foundation$25K
- 4Grow$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$15K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$10K
- Holy Transfiguration Monastic Fraternity$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- The Great Commission Foundation$9,200
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$460K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lorne Jackson (director); Wafa Martin (director); Mark Middleton (director); Dave Koning (director); Rupen Das (director); Tom Lipp (director); Lawrence Ho (director); Ulrike Gibbs (director); Brent Dornian (director); Jonathan Wellum (director); Abe Toews (director); Maria Mach (director); John Veldkamp (director); Vance Sider (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian National Christian Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863736310RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.