City Lights Church of Camrose
Publicly funded institution · Camrose, Alberta · BN 866909427RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,286,103) as filed with the CRA.
City Lights Church of Camrose is a charitable organization based in Camrose, Alberta, classified by the CRA under christianity. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2,154.
Compared with 81 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $53K in 2024, the largest being $26K to The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada/les Assemblees de la Pentecote du Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024.
In its own words
1. Sunday worship service. 2. Weekly ministries for women men youth young adults children and seniors. 3. Social Outreach to the community. Hot lunch Thursdays and Free frozen meals. 4. Funerals weddings child dedications communion baptisms prayer visitations senior lodge ministries hospital care/visits. 5. Educational programs and childcare services through our daycare ministry.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.3M | $2.3M | — | — | $6.2M |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $2.1M | — | — | $5.9M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $5.7M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $5.6M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $903K | $903K | — | — | $5.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $53K to 4 qualified donees:
Received $2,154 from 1 charity:
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,154
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,99948 positions
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from City Lights Church of Camrose’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866909427RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.