Ontario Christian Gleaners
Charitable organization · Cambridge, Ontario · BN 859230476RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,469,685) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Christian Gleaners is a charitable organization based in Cambridge, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 75% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 56 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $400K.
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 67% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $844K in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
The 'gleaners' is a volunteer driven food drying organization with over 1100 donated hours each week. Each day the volunteers are currently trimming 5000+ pounds of vegetables providing the ingredients for 30 000 servings of soup. - the trimmed vegetables are diced and then dried in a dehydration oven - later to be combined with other ingredients to constitute the soup mix. - the soup is donated to partner organizations who have the necessary infrastructure for effective distribution who are committed to sustainability and development and who combine the gospel message with humanitarian…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $1.4M | $34K | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $24K | — | $793K |
| 2022 | $985K | $1M | $997K | $7,868 | — | $914K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $1M | $984K | $2,007 | — | $974K |
| 2020 | $844K | $719K | $671K | $2,351 | — | $875K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $400K from 56 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$93K
- Canadahelps Canadon$93K
- Ross-Shire Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$19K
- Peoples Ministries Inc.$18K
- Abundance Canada$12K
- Christian Stewardship Services$12K
- Maitland River Community Church$6,521
- Zion United Reformed Church of Sheffield$6,000
- Calvin (dundas) Christian Reformed Church$5,707
- Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of Woodstock$5,441
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,060
- Waterloo Pentecostal Assembly$5,004
- Link Charity Canada Inc$4,000
- The Hensen Foundation$4,000
- Calvary Christian Reformed Church of Flamborough$3,878
- Rehoboth United Reformed Church of Hamilton$3,854
- Bethel United Reformed Church of Woodstock$3,770
- Grace Reformed Church$3,398
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,135
- Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of Cambridge$3,119
- Free Reformed Church of Dundas$3,100
- Langford Community Church$2,931
- The Canadian Reformed Church of Burlington South$2,780
- The First Christian Reformed Church of Kitchener Inc.$2,552
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$207K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Steve Beckman (director); Perry Wayne Foster (chair); Jerry Hamstra (director); Ralph Meiszinger (vice chair); Stan Puklicz (secretary-treasurer); Joyce Stevens (director); Jane Aubrey (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Christian Gleaners’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859230476RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.