Evangelical Free Church of Williams Lake
Publicly funded institution · Williams Lake, British Columbia · BN 133383265RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,499,516) as filed with the CRA.
Evangelical Free Church of Williams Lake is a charitable organization based in Williams Lake, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under christianity. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 57% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13K.
Compared with 81 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $29K in 2024, the largest being $6,000 to One Hope Ministries of Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
We have weekly church services and events during the week to support people in our church and community. We show our services online for those who are unable to attend in person. We provide a variety of ministries to men women youth children seniors and families. We provide counselling and give pastoral care such as weddings and funerals amongst other things. We donate funds to denomination headquarters and missionary organizations. We operate a day school for grades kindergarten to grade 10 and a daycare and after school care program. We give food vouchers and benevolent funds to peo…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $1.2M | — | $29K | $857K |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $917K | — | $27K | $932K |
| 2022 | $976K | $1.2M | $912K | — | $29K | $912K |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.4M | — | $34K | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | $41K | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $29K to 11 qualified donees:
- One Hope Ministries of Canada$6,000
- Africa Inland Mission International (canada)$5,000
- The Evangelical Free Church of Canada$4,800
- Evangelical Free Church of Canada - Canadian Pacific Distric$4,590
- Interact Ministries of Canada$3,000
- Worldwide Evangelization for Christ$3,000
- ShareWord Global Canada$1,200
- The Great Commission Foundation$800
- Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada$200
- The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada/alliance Évangélique du Canada$120
- Canadian Centre for Christian Charities$85
Received $13K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jonathan Neufeld (facilities director); Deborah Skinner (administrator); Shelby Philpotts (treasurer); Sharon Neufeld (ministries director); Jason Greig (chairman); Harvey Brown (vice chairman); Trevor Hagan (lead pastor); Pamela Abrahamse (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Evangelical Free Church of Williams Lake’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 133383265RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.