Departure Bay Baptist Church
Charitable organization · Nanaimo, British Columbia · BN 118884402RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($459,337) as filed with the CRA.
Departure Bay Baptist Church is a charitable organization based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $456K in revenue and $459K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $70K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $62K in 2024, the largest being $20K to Youth for Christ South Island Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $268K in 2020 to $456K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Community gathering place for christian worship and mutual support; educational hub housing a community daycare and pre-school facilities for homeschooling communities; food share depot for nanaimo food share's good food box; youth engagement hosting weekly community youth groups and support for summer camps benefiting children from local public schools; cultural and religious diverstiy hosting a korean christian church and supporting indigenous church in ahousaht bc; community support services using our parking lots as staging spaces for city crew work utilities and community services veh…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $456K | $459K | $459K | — | $62K | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $399K | $357K | $308K | — | $48K | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $329K | $345K | $295K | — | $50K | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $271K | $255K | $209K | — | $46K | $2M |
| 2020 | $268K | $268K | $222K | — | $47K | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $62K to 11 qualified donees:
- Youth for Christ South Island Association$20K
- Youth With A Mission Foundation$17K
- The Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in Canada$11K
- Fellowship of Evangelical Baptist Churches in British Columbia and Yukon$4,000
- Crossworld Inc.$1,320
- Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada$1,320
- Interact Ministries of Canada$1,320
- The Evangelical Free Church of Canada$1,320
- Camp Qwanoes$1,320
- Chosen People Ministries (canada)$1,320
- Avant Ministries Canada$1,320
Received $70K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$176K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karl Bloedorn (director); Ronald Bradburn (director); Edward Wall (director); Dominique Riverin (director); Larry Wall (director); Jeffrey Thudian (director); Richard Merriman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Departure Bay Baptist Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118884402RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.