Hope City Church (edmonton)
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 893659920RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,459,812) as filed with the CRA.
Hope City Church (edmonton) is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $10.8M in revenue and $9.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $568K.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 48 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 23 qualified donees totalling $1.2M in 2024, the largest being $492K to The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada/les Assemblees de la Pentecote du Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.9M in 2020 to $10.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
We hold weekly Christian worship services and midweek ministry programs for children youth young adults adults and seniors. We provide pastoral care for church and community members including weddings funerals child dedication and baptism. We run summer day camp programs for children (including sponsorship for low income families) a weekly clothing bank for low income families in the community crisis food assistance and benevolent support for families in financial crisis. We support a variety of organizations that run programs for at risk children and youth a women's shelter and pregna…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.8M | $9.5M | $7.5M | — | $1.2M | $17.7M |
| 2023 | $9M | $8.6M | $6.8M | — | $1.2M | $16.4M |
| 2022 | $9.4M | $7.3M | $6.2M | $0 | $984K | $16M |
| 2021 | $7.2M | $6.5M | $5.1M | — | $984K | $13.9M |
| 2020 | $6.9M | $6M | $4.8M | — | $740K | $13.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.2M to 23 qualified donees:
- The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada/les Assemblees de la Pentecote du Canada$492K
- Alberta & NWT District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada$262K
- Random Access Networks Association$99K
- Sunset Point Christian Camp Foundation$64K
- Vanguard College$53K
- Shiloh Rebman Youth Ranch Society$40K
- Adeara Recovery Centre$34K
- Power to Change Ministries$28K
- Alpha Ministries Canada$20K
- International Christian Mission Services$20K
- Kids on Track Association of Edmonton$15K
- Outreach for Life Association of Edmonton$14K
- Youth Rise Society$13K
- Resurgence Initiatives Society$12K
- The Pastorate Ministries Canada$12K
- Mission of Mercy (canada)$12K
- Rose Church Winnipeg Inc.$10K
- Evangel Tabernacle of Kelowna$10K
- Association of Related Churches Canada$10K
- Young Life of Canada$7,950
- Possibilities International$4,000
- Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada Inc.$1,200
- Erdo$835
Received $568K from 11 charities:
- Deo Gratias Foundation$240K
- Alberta & NWT District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada$139K
- Wiens Family Foundation$100K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$28K
- SMMART Foundation$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- Health Partners International of Canada$12K
- Abundance Canada$7,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$3,510
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,475
- United Way of Calgary and Area$134
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions48
- Total compensation, all staff$4.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Philip Kniesel (senior pastor); Graham Greenwood (treasurer & executive pastor); Jonathan Janz (board member); Oye Soyege (board member); Jeremy Taitinger (board member & vice chair); Shellie Wolverton (board member & secretary); Brent Seib (board member); Sandra Badejo (board member); Efa Etoroma (board member); Ben Linke (board member); Kim Boldt (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hope City Church (edmonton)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893659920RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.