Mennonite Disaster Service Canada Inc.
Charitable organization · Winnipeg, Manitoba · BN 893888263RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,040,301) as filed with the CRA.
Mennonite Disaster Service Canada Inc. is a charitable organization based in Winnipeg, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under protective health care. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $1.8M in revenue and $2M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 52% from other charities. In 2024, 80 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 67% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $102K in 2024, the largest being $5,000 to The Gathering Church. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Disaster relief after floods tornadoes wild fires etc.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8M | $2M | $1.7M | $6,495 | $92K | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $2.2M | $1.8M | $7,002 | $137K | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $3M | $2.5M | $4,397 | $224K | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $983K | $756K | $4,870 | $15K | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1M | $14K | — | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $102K to 21 qualified donees:
- The Gathering Church$5,000
- Salvation Army Point Leamington Corps$5,000
- Freedom House$5,000
- The Meeting Place$5,000
- Gospel Mission Church$5,000
- Sterling Mennonite Fellowship$5,000
- Bergthal Mennonite Church$5,000
- Lake Country Alliance Church$5,000
- Evangel Pentecostal Church$5,000
- Emmanuel Mennonite Church$5,000
- Petitcodiac Mennonite Church$5,000
- Eden Mennonite Church$5,000
- Sherbrooke Mennonite Church$5,000
- Lake Country Alliance Church$5,000
- First United Spanish Mennonite Church$5,000
- One88 Community Church$5,000
- Springridge Mennonite Church$5,000
- Level Ground Mennonite Church$5,000
- Carman Mennonite Church$5,000
- Jubilee Mennonite Church$5,000
- Highland Mennonite Church$2,000
Received $1.1M from 80 charities:
- Abundance Canada$352K
- The Foundation Office.ca$210K
- Canadahelps Canadon$173K
- Canadahelps Canadon$173K
- Old Order Mennonite Conference$75K
- La Crete Christian Fellowship$28K
- Markham Waterloo Mennonite Conference$20K
- The James and Sherry Redekop Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,884
- The Samaritan's Purse - Canada$6,000
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$5,000
- River of Life Community Church$4,250
- Valleyview Mennonite Church$3,003
- United Mennonite Church of Black Creek B C$3,000
- Sargent Avenue Mennonite Church$2,975
- Salem Mennonite Church$2,500
- Bergthaler Mennonite Church of Altona$2,500
- Fort Garry Mennonite Fellowship$2,500
- Coaldale Mennonite Church$2,000
- Rainham Mennonite Church$2,000
- Steinbach Mennonite Church$2,000
- Rosenort Evangelical Mennonite Church$2,000
- Nutana Park Mennonite Church$2,000
- Herschel Ebenfeld Mennonite Church Inc.$2,000
- Pembina Fellowship$1,785
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$377K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Henry Warkentin (vice-chair); David Brubacher (chair); Lester Weber (treasurer); Mark Rempel (secretary); Karen Sheil (director); Benny Penner (director); Gerald Dyck (director); Jim Reimer (director); Murray Bunnett (director); David Loewen (director); Denis Sabourin (director); Wilbert Epp (director); Elvira Wiebe (director); Osiah Horst (director); John Sawatzky (director); Philip Wiebe (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mennonite Disaster Service Canada Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893888263RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.