Message Trust Canada Foundation
Public foundation · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 782007116RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,033,674) as filed with the CRA.
Message Trust Canada Foundation is a public foundation based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 96% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $264K in 2024, the largest being $221K to Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada Incorporated. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $217K in 2020 to $1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Soliciting gifts to fund ongoing gifts to canadian registered charities. Distributing funds to canadian registered charities. To advance religion in canada and worldwide.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $1M | $434K | $138K | $264K | $653K |
| 2023 | $897K | $800K | $335K | $93K | $241K | $666K |
| 2022 | $743K | $309K | $242K | $14K | $229K | $570K |
| 2021 | $210K | $218K | $29K | — | $174K | $135K |
| 2020 | $217K | $227K | — | — | $194K | $143K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $264K to 7 qualified donees:
Received $1.1M from 24 charities:
- Morningstar Foundation$418K
- Coram Deo Foundation$150K
- The Damascus Road Foundation$132K
- Canadahelps Canadon$56K
- Canadahelps Canadon$56K
- Graham Munro Charitable Foundation$50K
- Abundance Canada$40K
- The Charis Foundation$25K
- Heppell Family Foundation$20K
- Kenneth Copeland Ministries Canada$18K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$18K
- Beulah Alliance Church of Edmonton$15K
- Westwood Mennonite Brethren Church$13K
- Apostolic Church of Pentecost of Canada Incorporated$11K
- Vision Ministries Canada$10K
- Coastal Church$10K
- New Hope Church Niagara$5,000
- Richview Baptist Church$3,000
- Untitled Church$2,000
- Neighbours Church$1,900
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$1,350
- Northview Community Church$1,000
- Toronto Foundation$500
- City Centre Community Renewal Initiatives Inc.$20
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Phillip Collins (director); William Hogg (director); David Koop (director); Bradley Gay (treasurer); Willy Reimer (director); Andy Hawthorne (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Message Trust Canada Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 782007116RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.