Empower Ministries
Charitable organization · Barrie, Ontario · BN 858042872RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($13,705,292) as filed with the CRA.
Empower Ministries is a charitable organization based in Barrie, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $14M in revenue and $13.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 69% from other charities. In 2024, 44 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9.6M.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $72K in 2024, the largest being $72K to International Christian Mission Services. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.7M in 2020 to $14M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Programs directed at supporting the christian church as follows: 1) printing and distributing bibles and other religious materials to churches 2) providing basic necessities for christian churches and ministries such as food and clothing 3) training and teaching pastors to equip them for christian missions all over the world 4) to provide and support children's ministries and humanitatian relief efforts
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14M | $13.7M | $13.2M | — | $72K | $6.5M |
| 2023 | $13.6M | $11.3M | $10.8M | — | $32K | $6.1M |
| 2022 | $11.7M | $10.7M | $10.3M | — | $16K | $3.8M |
| 2021 | $7.6M | $7.4M | $7M | — | $7,000 | $2.8M |
| 2020 | $6.7M | $6.4M | $6M | — | $8,000 | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $72K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $9.6M from 44 charities:
- Felsen Foundation$8.2M
- Church of the Rock Inc.$497K
- Gloria DI Dio Foundation$135K
- Crossroads Evangelical Missionary Church Fellowship$85K
- Abundance Canada$84K
- Centre Street Church$69K
- T & L Neufeld Trust$65K
- Doulos Foundation$60K
- Calvary Community Church of Edmonton$34K
- The Bridgeworks Hope to the World Foundation$30K
- The Rising Light Foundation$30K
- Southland Church Inc.$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Calvary Chapel Kelowna Society$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- Springvale Baptist Church$17K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$14K
- Christian Stewardship Services$13K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$12K
- Viva Church$11K
- Word of Life Mission Church Inc.$10K
- Salem Community Bible Church$9,312
- Hosanna Ministries Inc.$8,000
- A.d. Penner Family Foundation Inc.$6,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$606K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Ressor (chairman); Dan Mack (secretary); Gerry Doell (director); Robert Dyck (director); Norm Toews (treasurer); George Cannon (director); Matthew Hearn (director); Keith Stutters (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Empower Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 858042872RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.