Mennonite Community Services of Southern Ontario
Charitable organization · Aylmer, Ontario · BN 870744539RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,964,959) as filed with the CRA.
Mennonite Community Services of Southern Ontario is a charitable organization based in Aylmer, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 38% from government. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $120K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (9 positions in that band). The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Providing community services such as settlement (immigration) radio broadcasting advocacy education and other services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $2M | $1.9M | — | $10K | $91K |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.8M | — | — | $84K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $76K |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | — | $75K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | $19K | $105K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $120K from 10 charities:
- Abundance Canada$38K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$30K
- The Canadian Mission Board of the Church of God in Canada$6,000
- D F Plett Historical Research Foundation Inc$5,400
- Straffordville Evangelical Mennonite Church$4,800
- Aylmer Evangelical Mennonite Mission Church$4,500
- United Way Elgin Middlesex$911
- ST. Paul's United Church$600
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2022)
Cornelius Knelsen (director); Cornelius Klassen (director); Jacob Berg (chair); Abe Harms (executive director); Jacob Penner (secretary); John Wall (SR) (director); Jake Bergen (director); Sueann Wiebe (secretary); Isaak Peters (director); Anna Unger (treasurer); Sara Wiebe (director).
As listed on its 2022 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mennonite Community Services of Southern Ontario’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870744539RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.