Colombia Para Cristo Society
Charitable organization · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan · BN 829111947RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($337,151) as filed with the CRA.
Colombia Para Cristo Society is a charitable organization based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $345K in revenue and $337K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from donations, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $164K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $605K in 2020 to $345K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Colombia para Cristo (CPC) offers evangelism of the gospel church meetings and conferences and ministers to the needs of indigenous people (i.e. Kogi natives). CPC also publishes and distributes Christian literature Bibles and DVDs. CPC operates on-air multiple radio stations throughout Colombia to reach hostile areas and uses an airplane to reach unreached areas (i.e. jungle mountains and rural areas). CPC hosts a nutrition centre and distributes humanitarian aid (i.e. clothing food etc.). CPC has portable water treatment plants for marginalized regions affected by the war.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $345K | $337K | $282K | — | — | $118K |
| 2023 | $615K | $632K | $569K | — | — | $110K |
| 2022 | $404K | $421K | $362K | $0 | $0 | $126K |
| 2021 | $561K | $803K | $746K | — | $0 | $144K |
| 2020 | $605K | $572K | $472K | — | — | $391K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $164K from 11 charities:
- Global Peace Initiative$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$32K
- Canadahelps Canadon$32K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$20K
- Heppell Family Foundation$15K
- Abundance Canada$4,950
- Blackfalds Community Fellowship$3,646
- Wetaskiwin Full Gospel Fellowship$3,600
- Not by Might Ministries$2,400
- Zion Christian Fellowship$500
- Red Deer Liberty Christian Assembly$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Victor Benitez (secretary/treasurer); Samuel Hernandez (president); John Lucas (director); Martin Stendal (director); John Troyer (director); Gammer R. James (director); Ronald Krieg (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Colombia Para Cristo Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829111947RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.