Evangelical Free Church of Wainwright
Charitable organization · Wainwright, Alberta · BN 118903558RR0001 · Christianity
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($173,315) as filed with the CRA.
Evangelical Free Church of Wainwright is a charitable organization based in Wainwright, Alberta, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $229K in revenue and $173K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers.
It reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $30K in 2024, the largest being $12K to The Evangelical Free Church of Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
We conduct weekly sunday worship services. Home groups are offered to both men and women. A vbs program is offered during the month of august offering bible lessons fun activities and crafts. Pastoral care and counseling is provided through weddings funerals hospital visits and day to day interaction. G.if.t. Weekends ( growing in faith together) are compact weekends filled with scripture based messages and learning lead by pastoral or other christian leaders. Donations are made to denomination headquaters and overseas for mission based activities. Donations are also made locally for mi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $229K | $173K | — | — | $30K | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $243K | $258K | $149K | — | $29K | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $224K | $169K | $95K | — | $30K | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $174K | $165K | $53K | — | $30K | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $169K | $150K | $53K | — | $37K | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $30K to 9 qualified donees:
- The Evangelical Free Church of Canada$12K
- Alberta Parkland District of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada$5,200
- Worldwide Evangelization for Christ$5,000
- One Hope Ministries of Canada$4,200
- Canadian Centre for Christian Charities$1,409
- One Hope Ministries of Canada$1,372
- Canadahelps Canadon$300
- Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada$240
- ShareWord Global Canada$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$24K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bryan Templeton (chair); Michael Ederhardt-Sturm (vice-chair); Byron Patzer (corp. worship team lead); Michael Ederhardt-Sturm (mentoring elder team lead); Kim Miller (mission team lead); Allen Spady (property/finance team leader).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Evangelical Free Church of Wainwright’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118903558RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.