Ridgewood Evangelical Mennonite Church
Charitable organization · Giroux, Manitoba · BN 107896391RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($665,183) as filed with the CRA.
Ridgewood Evangelical Mennonite Church is a charitable organization based in Giroux, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $618K in revenue and $665K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $49K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $207K in 2024, the largest being $75K to The Evangelical Mennonite Conference. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
We hold worship services weekly. We provide ministries for women men youth and children weekly. We give pastoral fcare. We run a children's summer camp with a religious program. We donate funds to denomination headquarters for international missionary activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $618K | $665K | $441K | — | $215K | $3.8M |
| 2023 | $600K | $681K | — | — | $287K | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $572K | $518K | — | — | $188K | $3.9M |
| 2021 | $570K | $495K | $250K | — | $212K | $3.8M |
| 2020 | $534K | $449K | $272K | — | $169K | $3.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $207K to 10 qualified donees:
- The Evangelical Mennonite Conference$75K
- Youth for Christ (steinbach) Inc$36K
- Action International Ministries Corporation$18K
- Ethnos Canada$17K
- Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada Inc.$17K
- Canadian Conference of the Mennonite Brethren Church of North America$17K
- Rest Haven Nursing Home of Steinbach Inc.$13K
- Canadian Foodgrains Bank Association Inc/association de la Banque Canadienne de Grains Inc.$12K
- The Bethesda Foundation Incorporated$1,500
- Soup's On Inc.$70
Received $49K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$158K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bruce Penner (chair); Brady Kornelsen (education); Lynn Plett (premises); Matthew Funk (worship); Gord Penner (minister); Renalda Douma (outreach); Kathy Penner (missions); Mike Wiewel (deacon).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ridgewood Evangelical Mennonite Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107896391RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.