Ruth & Naomi's Mission
Publicly funded institution · Chilliwack, British Columbia · BN 863030482RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,712,027) as filed with the CRA.
Ruth & Naomi's Mission is a charitable organization based in Chilliwack, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $8.6M in revenue and $7.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 75% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $273K.
Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 81 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.8M in 2020 to $8.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Provide meals & clothing for the less fortunate. Provide shelter for homeless. Liason for clientle and gov agency attempting to resolve addictions. Provide social interaction to the disinfranchised. Provide housing for long term residents for long term stays funded by the bc housing authority & to provide drug & addiction program for those residents
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.6M | $7.7M | — | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | — | — | — | $31K | — | — |
| 2022 | $7.1M | $7M | $6.4M | $11K | — | $465K |
| 2021 | $5.3M | $5.2M | $4.8M | $28K | — | $353K |
| 2020 | $3.8M | $3.9M | $3.4M | $4,240 | — | $321K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $273K from 30 charities:
- Abbotsford Community Foundation$76K
- Rooke Foundation$60K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$50K
- The Reformed Congregation in North America Society$15K
- The Foundation Office.ca$12K
- Canadahelps Canadon$11K
- The Yarrow Alliance Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$10K
- Chilliwack Foundation$9,992
- Cornerstone Christian Reformed Church of Chilliwack$5,129
- First Mennonite Church Greendale$4,339
- Heartland Fellowship$2,850
- Free Reformed Church of Chilliwack B.C.$2,245
- Greendale Mennonite Brethren Church$1,558
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,500
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- Partners in Hope Recovery Society$1,213
- Broadway Mennonite Brethren Church$1,200
- Canadian Bible Society/la Societe Biblique Canadienne$1,096
- Emmanuel Baptist Church$1,000
- Living Hope Charitable Society$710
- Lower Pacific District of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada$636
- Midtown Church$600
- Riverside Christian Reformed Church$507
- Chilliwack Alliance Church$500
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions81
- Total compensation, all staff$4.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ken Falk (board chair); Neil Hilliard (vice chair); Steve Semke (treasurer); Taff Thatcher (secretary); Wim Kerkhoff (director); Jon Mackie (director); Joyce Kiselbach (director); Jody Bomhof (director); Steve Roukema (director); Chris Terepocki (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ruth & Naomi's Mission’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863030482RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.