Generation Rising
Publicly funded institution · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 832411094RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,101,945) as filed with the CRA.
Generation Rising is a charitable organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $40K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The organization partners long-term communities churches organizations and schools in latin america to provide children living in poverty with a quality education in a christian setting. Our approach includes education scholarships teacher training building and repairing schools and providing social programming for the families. The organization advances education and disseminates information to the general public in canada and elsewhere on the christian response to issues related to poverty and its effects on families children and communities through events media publications and pr…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $839K | $117K | — | $918K |
| 2023 | $998K | $885K | $583K | $152K | $0 | $691K |
| 2022 | $816K | $1.5M | $1.2M | $138K | $0 | $631K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1M | $884K | $33K | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $69K | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $40K from 8 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$224K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sally Kauenhowen (member); Helmut Sawatzky (treasurer); Micael Jerome Duerksen (chair); Anna Ediger (secretary); Charles Penner (vice-chair); Tomas Martens (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Generation Rising’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 832411094RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.