Samaritan House Ministries Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Brandon, Manitoba · BN 107951790RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,983,932) as filed with the CRA.
Samaritan House Ministries Inc. is a charitable organization based in Brandon, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $2.1M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from donations, 74% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 33 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $380K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 92% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $2.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Housing & literacy programs food bank counselling programs drop-in centre homelessness initiative food services for the needy
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $2M | $2M | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.2M | $2.2M | — | — | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $2.6M | $2.6M | $5,219 | — | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $3.7M | $2.5M | $2.5M | $6,322 | — | $2M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.3M | $8,452 | — | $756K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $380K from 33 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$83K
- Canadahelps Canadon$83K
- Harvest Manitoba Inc.$30K
- United Way Of Brandon & District Inc.$28K
- The McCain Foundation$25K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$20K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$18K
- The Cardinal Foundation$15K
- The Brandon Area Community Foundation Inc.$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$6,896
- T.J. Rice Family Foundation Inc.$5,000
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$3,951
- McDiarmid Drive Alliance Church$3,745
- Knox United Church$3,730
- Richmond Park Mennonite Brethren Church$3,200
- Alan and Doreen Thompson Charitable Foundation Inc.$3,000
- Abundance Canada$2,000
- Jubilee Mennonite$2,000
- Mennonite Brethren Church of Justice$1,800
- Shoal Lake Baptist Church Inc.$1,500
- Calvary Temple$1,313
- Hartney United Church$1,178
- Faith Community Baptist Church of Souris Inc.$1,149
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nelli Sippel (board member); Brenda Paddock Thiessen (board member); Marianna Thiessen (treasurer); David Simard (chairperson); James Chambers (board member); Shelly Mushumanski (secreatry); Jackie Kamann-Oke (board member); John Debeer (vice-chair); Michaela Hopfner-Mailman (board member); Shawna Mozdzen (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Samaritan House Ministries Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107951790RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.