Desert Streams Healing Ministries
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 832389878RR0001 · Support of Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($351,144) as filed with the CRA.
Desert Streams Healing Ministries is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $358K in revenue and $351K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $83K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $212K in 2020 to $358K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Life School of Healing & Discipleship Healing Retreats & Personal Ministry Appointments
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $358K | $351K | $312K | — | — | $190K |
| 2023 | $308K | $292K | $255K | — | $200 | $183K |
| 2022 | $341K | $275K | $239K | — | — | $167K |
| 2021 | — | $210K | $183K | — | — | $101K |
| 2020 | $212K | $204K | $177K | — | — | $55K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $83K from 8 charities:
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$14K
- McKernan Baptist Church of Edmonton Alberta$8,142
- Calvary Community Church of Edmonton$6,900
- Christ the King Anglican Network in Canada$4,000
- Steele Heights Baptist Church of Edmonton Alberta$1,020
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$230K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lynda Rowbottom (chair); Scott Koehn (secretary); Joel Nikkel (treasurer); Shawn Lund (director); Neil Loogman (director); Harry Lindenberg (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Desert Streams Healing Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 832389878RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.