Shining Light Ministry
Charitable organization · Ancaster, Ontario · BN 889533576RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($776,603) as filed with the CRA.
Shining Light Ministry is a charitable organization based in Ancaster, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $571K in revenue and $777K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $61K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Produce missions-focused television programs with the gospel message to teach god's truth on various aspects of victorious living including faith based on the word of god godly character and leadership marriage and family issues divine healing goals and hard work success and prosperity knowing god and growing in our new life in him. Actively involved in evangelism discipleship leadership training theological and marriage seminars and we engage in relief work with refugees widows and orphaned children by providing them with much needed humanitarian aid. Regularly preach to church…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $571K | $777K | $758K | — | — | $548K |
| 2023 | $983K | $845K | $807K | — | — | $753K |
| 2022 | $826K | $803K | $753K | — | — | $615K |
| 2021 | $772K | $659K | $625K | — | — | $575K |
| 2020 | $809K | $991K | $990K | — | — | $500K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $61K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$340K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Horst Schinschick (director); Robert Roy (director); Joshua Krstevski (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Shining Light Ministry’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889533576RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.