Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries
Public foundation · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 888730397RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,150,207) as filed with the CRA.
Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries is a public foundation based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.6M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 77% from donations. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $116K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 68 qualified donees totalling $1.5M in 2024, the largest being $393K to Lutheran Church-Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $3.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Receipt of various planned charitable gifts in favour of the organization from donors. The organization establishes and administers giving programs to encourage direct gifts bequests endowments and legacies to the organization. Realized gifts are used to assist lutheran church-canada (synod) in effectively carrying out its programs of religious advancement through ministry outreach witness and service.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $2.2M | $228K | $189K | $1.5M | $10.5M |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $2M | $224K | $180K | $1.4M | $9.1M |
| 2022 | $3.5M | $2.1M | $265K | $218K | $1.6M | $8.4M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $1.9M | $224K | $328K | $1.3M | $6.9M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $2.2M | $254K | $311K | $1.7M | $6.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.5M to 68 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Lutheran Church-Canada$393K
- First Lutheran Church$230K
- Canadian Lutheran World Relief$114K
- Concordia Lutheran Seminary$107K
- Wagner Hills Farm Society$92K
- The Canadian Lutherland of the Qu'Appelle Lakes Saskatchewan$57K
- Saint James Lutheran Church$54K
- Siloam Mission Inc.$50K
- Peace Lutheran Church Inc.$40K
- Beautiful Savior Lutheran School Inc$39K
- Grace Lutheran Church Saskatoon Incorporated$32K
- Holy Cross Evangelical Lutheran Church of Kitchener$25K
- Faith Evangelical Lutheran Church of Surrey B.C.$24K
- Messiah Evangelical Lutheran Church$22K
- Faith Lutheran Church (kitchener)$21K
- Lutheran Laymen's League of Canada$21K
- Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd$20K
- Concordia Lutheran Theological Seminary-Ontario$16K
- Korle-Bu Foundation$14K
- United Way of Winnipeg$10K
- Main Street Project Inc.$10K
- L.a.m.p.- Lutheran Association of Missionaries and Pilots Inc./l.a.m.p.- l'Association Lutherienne des Missionnaires et Aviateurs Inc.$8,886
- ST Peter's Lutheran Church$8,684
- Lutheran Bible Translators of Canada Inc.$8,606
- Trinity Lutheran Church of Wilkie Inc.$7,623
Received $116K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$320K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jason Mutschler (board member); Wayne Zhang (board member); Tyler Rodgers (board member); Dale Klein (board member); Elton Harper (board member); Tom Huras (board member); Alan Schmitt (chairman); Rod Gellner; Heather Keller.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lutheran Church - Canada Financial Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888730397RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.