St. Andre Bessette Parish
Charitable organization · Vaughn, Ontario · BN 107910259RR0235 · Christianity
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($437,349) as filed with the CRA.
St. Andre Bessette Parish is a charitable organization based in Vaughn, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $955K in revenue and $437K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4,744.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $31K in 2024, the largest being $20K to Sharelife. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $455K in 2020 to $955K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The parish is dedicated to fostering spiritual growth through the advancement of roman catholic religious worship instruction and ministry to both parishioners and the community at large. In this respect the parish holds worship services provides catechesis and sacramental preparation provides pastoral care to the sick dying and those in grief counsels individuals and families in crisis and assists the needy and homeless in its neighborhood buy providing pastoral care food vouchers and clothing.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $955K | $437K | $267K | $109K | $31K | — |
| 2023 | $879K | $339K | $175K | $98K | $38K | — |
| 2022 | $870K | $246K | $129K | $79K | $6,307 | — |
| 2021 | $684K | $802K | $724K | $12K | $40K | — |
| 2020 | $455K | $304K | $247K | $13K | $16K | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $31K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $4,744 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$178K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter Jae Choi (pastor); Henry Lapar (bookkeeper); Lily Martines (adm. officer/secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from St. Andre Bessette Parish’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107910259RR0235), or read how we compute the receipt.