Christian Stewardship Services
Charitable organization · Cambridge, Ontario · BN 106920309RR0002 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($72,541,532) as filed with the CRA.
Christian Stewardship Services is a charitable organization based in Cambridge, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $25.4M in revenue and $72.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $380K.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 682 qualified donees totalling $11.3M in 2024, the largest being $1.8M to Indwell Community Homes. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
On behalf of and in support of the charities who are members of css our representatives conduct many public informational and educational presentations throughout canada. These seminars were on topics of estate planning and planned giving methods. In addition to seminars we also conduct in home counseling visits for individuals and families on behalf of our charity partners in the area of estate planning and planned giving methods. We routinely consult with other charities to provide technical assistance and training to enable them to include planned giving in their donor development progra…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.4M | $72.5M | $60.9M | — | $11.3M | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $24.8M | $29.4M | $15.8M | — | $13.2M | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $18.3M | $17.8M | $10M | — | $7.5M | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $37.5M | $17M | $7.8M | — | $8.9M | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $21.3M | $12.7M | $7.5M | — | $4.9M | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $11.3M to 682 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Indwell Community Homes$1.8M
- World Renew$637K
- Orangeville Christian School Society$550K
- Edudeo Ministries$440K
- Harvest Endowment Foundation$360K
- John Knox Christian School Society of Mississauga$266K
- Redeemer University$253K
- First Christian Reformed Church of Barrie Ont$239K
- The Bible League of Canada$152K
- ReFrame Ministries$138K
- Women & Children's Shelter (barrie)$130K
- The Association for Christian Education of ST. Catharines$126K
- The King's University$122K
- The Christian Reformed Church in North America$118K
- Maitland River Community Church$118K
- Quinte Region Christian Schools$110K
- Tillsonburg Christian Reformed Church$110K
- Timothy Christian School (barrie)$110K
- Niagara Reformed Christian Education Association$107K
- Christian School Foundation (Canada) Inc.$97K
- Toronto District Christian High School$93K
- Timothy Christian School Society$93K
- Ligonier Ministries Canada$79K
- Calvary Gospel Church$78K
- Cambridge District Association for Christian Education$72K
Received $380K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$969K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James Collie (director); Hank Dejong (secretary); Yvonne Renema (director); Jack Vanden Pol (treasurer); James Vanderlaan (vice chair); Emma Solowan (director); Patricia Sarazen (director); Philip Beck (director); Andrea Dickinson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Christian Stewardship Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106920309RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.