Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Canada
Charitable organization · Oshawa, Ontario · BN 132202755RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($52,283,451) as filed with the CRA.
Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Canada is a charitable organization based in Oshawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $55.2M in revenue and $52.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from other charities. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $25.9M.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 35 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $28M in 2024, the largest being $9.4M to Loma Linda University. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 30 names.
In its own words
The charity operates as the national headquarters for the seventh-day adventist church in canada and provides ministry leadership and administrative support to the provincial offices of the church to the local church charities and to other national institutions of the canadian adventist church. The charity is involved in the promotion of religion education from kindergarten through university and disaster relief and development work. Programs are carried out mainly in canada but also abroad through structured arrangements.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $55.2M | $52.3M | $22.1M | — | $28M | $39.7M |
| 2023 | $54.7M | $51.1M | $19.7M | — | $27.8M | $36.6M |
| 2022 | $50.1M | $47M | $14.5M | — | $24.5M | $33M |
| 2021 | $47.6M | $45.8M | $13.3M | — | $24.8M | $29.8M |
| 2020 | $50.3M | $48.6M | $13.6M | — | $26.3M | $27.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $28M to 18 qualified donees:
- Loma Linda University$9.4M
- Burman University$5.9M
- Adra Canada$2.2M
- The Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church$1.5M
- Kingsway College$1.5M
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$1.3M
- Hope Channel Canada$1.1M
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Newfoundland and Labrador$1M
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church Quebec Conference$914K
- Seventh Day Adventist Church (british Columbia Conference)$894K
- Maritime Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Inc.$735K
- It Is Written Canada$613K
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$458K
- Christian Record Services Inc.$133K
- Voice of Prophecy (canada)$132K
- Lifestyle Canada Education Service$108K
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$50K
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church Quebec Conference$27K
Received $25.9M from 10 charities:
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church$9.9M
- Seventh Day Adventist Church (british Columbia Conference)$9.3M
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church Quebec Conference$3.2M
- The Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church$2M
- Maritime Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Inc.$1.2M
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Newfoundland and Labrador$293K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,410
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,060
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions35
- Total compensation, all staff$3.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Loren Agrey (director); Charles Aguilar (director); Mae-Lyna Beaubrun-Fleury (director); Jakov Bibulovic (director); Kevin Boonstra (director); Lauren Clarke (director); Widens Descorbeth (director); Cathy Domke (director); Roberson Dorelus (director); Sylvain Duval (director); Troy Guderyan (director); Walt Kalkan (director); Ngoy Kyala (director); Abigail Lawrence (director); Paul Llewellyn (director); Kevin McKay (director); Dave Miller (director); Cyril Millett LLL (director); John Murley (director); Ross Murley (director); Paul Musafili (director); Nerval Myrie (director); Edward Olson (director); Stanley Onyeobia (director); Jeff Potts (director); Filipe Reis de Carvalho (director); Roselyn Scott-Lewis (director); Manuela Terencio (director); Brad Thorp (director); Heather Wright (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132202755RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.