Northwind Family Ministries
Charitable organization · Thunder Bay, Ontario · BN 791525090RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,788,425) as filed with the CRA.
Northwind Family Ministries is a charitable organization based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 41% from other charities. In 2024, 33 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $368K.
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 43% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $773K in 2020 to $1.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The Gathering—Weekly Family Fellowship and Bible Study; Community Outreach and PlayDays—Activity-based programs in low income housing complexes; Bible studies and Spiritual Growth—Trauma informed literacy building culturally relevant Bible lessons for individuals and groups; Counselling Services—Clinical psychotherapy and counselling; Family Strengthening—Whole life healing for families through psychotherapy and attachment-theory-based activities; Compass—Crisis response team to northern communities; Competent Caring workshops—Training for individuals who are in supportive roles; …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $56K | — | $948K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $59K | — | $804K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.1M | — | — | $696K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1M | $860K | $51K | — | $674K |
| 2020 | $773K | $579K | $494K | $7,786 | — | $548K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $368K from 33 charities:
- Acts of Grace Foundation$131K
- The Charis Foundation$40K
- Woodvale Pentecostal Church$37K
- United Way of Thunder Bay$27K
- La Crete Christian Fellowship$14K
- The Central Canadian District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$11K
- Abundance Canada$10K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$10K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$10K
- High Level Evangelical Church$8,400
- Future Generations Foundation$7,881
- Covenant Associates LTD.$6,720
- Portico Community Church$6,000
- Fort William Baptist Church Thunder Bay Ontario$6,000
- Mariann Trust$6,000
- ST. Ann's Community Church$4,810
- High Level Christian Fellowship$4,125
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,945
- Grace Evangelical Free Church of Thunder Bay$3,750
- Walkerton Pentecostal Church$3,600
- Evangel Pentecostal Church$2,400
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,290
- The Martensville Alliance Church Inc.$2,200
- Port Rowan Free Methodist Church$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,941
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
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Condon (director - vice chair & sec.); Peggy Blekkenhorst (director - treasurer); John Andres (director); Harvey Yesno (director); Milissa Ewing (director); Bonita Ledua (executive director); Wesley Carlisle (director of administration); Carol Loney (director); Franz Seibel (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northwind Family Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 791525090RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.