Rockway Mennonite Collegiate Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 119122091RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,863,917) as filed with the CRA.
Rockway Mennonite Collegiate Inc. is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $7.1M in revenue and $6.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 6% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $480K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 38 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $100 in 2024, the largest being $100 to Waterloo Region Suicide Prevention Council. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Rockway Mennonite Collegiate provides a Christian educational community for grades 7 through 12. Rockway integrates Ministry of Education approved academic learning with growth in character and faith.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.1M | $6.9M | $6.1M | $220K | $190 | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $6.6M | $6.7M | $6M | $210K | $200 | $3M |
| 2022 | $5.9M | $6.4M | $5.6M | $228K | — | $3M |
| 2021 | $7.1M | $6M | $5.3M | $287K | $150 | $3.5M |
| 2020 | $7M | $5.3M | $4.6M | $305K | $100 | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $100 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $480K from 13 charities:
- Abundance Canada$278K
- Mennonite Church Eastern Canada Eglise Mennonite de l'Est du Canada$70K
- Canadahelps Canadon$47K
- Canadahelps Canadon$47K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$12K
- Elmira Mennonite Church Inc.$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Tavistock Mennonite Church$3,255
- East Zorra Mennonite Church$3,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,595
- Barterpay It Forward Foundation$1,902
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$200
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions38
- Total compensation, all staff$5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Craig Bechtel (director); Bradshaw Kevin (vice chair); Kathy Clemence (director); Tim Hedrick (treasurer); Duane Heide (secretary); Monica Loberto (director); Betty Pries (chair); Rene Baergen (director); Scott Albrecht (director); Lori Peebles (director); Sharon Schwartzentruber (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rockway Mennonite Collegiate Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119122091RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.