Great Lakes Bible College
Publicly funded institution · Beamsville, Ontario · BN 890876576RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($290,308) as filed with the CRA.
Great Lakes Bible College is a charitable organization based in Beamsville, Ontario, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $411K in revenue and $290K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations, 37% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $72K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% 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 $149K in 2020 to $411K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Post Secondary Biblical education-degrees certificates and audit
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $411K | $290K | $234K | $32K | — | $566K |
| 2023 | $288K | $234K | $154K | $56K | — | $445K |
| 2022 | $396K | $234K | $154K | $56K | — | $333K |
| 2021 | $199K | $186K | $151K | $2,134 | — | $393K |
| 2020 | $149K | $175K | $138K | $5,499 | — | $384K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $72K from 11 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Church of Christ-Bramalea$8,100
- The Weyburn Church of Christ$5,500
- Northwest Church of Christ Inc$5,000
- Waterloo Church of Christ$5,000
- Carman Church of Christ$4,000
- Hope Bible Church Niagara$1,560
- Church of Christ$1,250
- Thessalon Church of Christ$1,100
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$293
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$222K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Greg Toohey (director); Bernie Hartung (board secretary); Jamie Azzoparde (director); jim Dawson (director); Jim Holston (director); David Knutson (board member); Leslie Williams (board member); John Smith (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Great Lakes Bible College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890876576RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.