Greater Vancouver Baptist Church
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 135625648RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,198,235) as filed with the CRA.
Greater Vancouver Baptist Church is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $71K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 16 qualified donees totalling $317K in 2024, the largest being $60K to Baptist International Missions (in Ontario) Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
We hold regular church services for the purposes of worship teaching and preaching of Bible doctrine. Our ministries include Sunday school Christian learning centre (offering grades K-12) adult and children outreach programs camps door to door evangelism visit those who are home or hospital bound and other church/ ministry/ fellowship programs. We help to support independent Baptist missionaries who are involved in evangelistic edification and the starting up of new churches. They are of like faith and practice and use many of the same programs as we do. We have signed written agreeme…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $790K | $4,987 | $339K | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $614K | — | $370K | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $1M | $1.1M | $489K | — | $299K | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $1M | $1.1M | $650K | — | $373K | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $1M | $1.2M | $771K | — | $218K | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $317K to 16 qualified donees:
- Baptist International Missions (in Ontario) Inc.$60K
- Spruceland Baptist Church$53K
- Point Roberts Bible Camp$50K
- City Baptist Church$44K
- Heritage Baptist Church Inc.$43K
- Pembina Valley Baptist Church Inc.$19K
- Harvesters Baptist Church$14K
- Baptist Missions to Forgotten Peoples - Canada$6,500
- Baptist World Mission$6,000
- Lions Gate Baptist Church$4,200
- First Bible Baptist Church of Inuvik NWT$4,200
- Okanagan Valley Baptist Church$3,000
- Faithway Baptist Church$3,000
- Redemption Baptist Church Inc.$3,000
- New Hope Baptist Church$3,000
- Bethel Baptist Church$600
Received $71K from 19 charities:
- City Baptist Church$20K
- Chinese Tabernacle Baptist Church$7,800
- Faithway Baptist Church$7,800
- Spruceland Baptist Church$5,575
- Bible Baptist Temple (ST. Thomas)$5,200
- Victory Baptist Church of Langley British Columbia Canada$4,350
- Bethel Baptist Church (simcoe)$3,600
- Lifeway Baptist Church Incorporated$2,947
- Bethel Baptist Church (simcoe)$2,400
- Lions Gate Baptist Church$2,400
- Heritage Baptist Church Inc.$1,800
- Okanagan Valley Baptist Church$1,490
- Emmanuel Baptist Church$1,425
- Metro Baptist Church$1,200
- Vaughan Baptist Church$1,200
- Grace Baptist Church$1,000
- Collingwood Baptist Church$500
- The New Testament Baptist Church of Hamilton$500
- Heritage Baptist Church of Barrie Ontario$330
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
- $1–39,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$455K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lawrence Mak (deacon/ director); Virgilio Rabe (deacon/ director); Adonis Malazo (deacon/ director); David Smart (deacon/ director); Gephunneh Nacana (deacon/ director); Ralph Baladjay (deacon/ director); Allison Parayno (deacon/ director); John-Marc Conner (senior pastor/ director); Jeff Herrera (deacon/ director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Greater Vancouver Baptist Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 135625648RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.