Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Publicly funded institution · Oshawa, Ontario · BN 107797383RR0146 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,566,069) as filed with the CRA.
Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church is a charitable organization based in Oshawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from other charities. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $171K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
To Provide Christian Education to the Community
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | $229K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $248K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $237K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1.2M | — | — | $327K |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.3M | — | — | $377K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $171K from 7 charities:
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$126K
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$20K
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$13K
- Durham Filipino-Canadian Seventh-day Adventist Church$8,460
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$2,000
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$395
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bernard Sittlinger (treasurer); Michelle DeSilva (principal); Gary Lafoy (board chair); Carlos Oliviera (vice chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107797383RR0146), or read how we compute the receipt.