Steinbach Bible College Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Steinbach, Manitoba · BN 749304085RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,709,652) as filed with the CRA.
Steinbach Bible College Inc. is a charitable organization based in Steinbach, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $2.7M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 11% from government, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $250K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 81% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $300 in 2024, the largest being $300 to South East Helping Hands Inc.. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $7.8M in 2020 to $2.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
A: advance education by providing various courses through an accredited college to members of the public who are successful applicants. Application is open to all members of the public. B: advance religion by providing religious instruction as a core focus of various available couses by ensuring religion and religious learning and teaching is interwoven through activities like bible study religious reflection and prayer ministry development experiential learning and by strengthening students' religious learning through public service. C: relieve poverty by facilitating volunteerism of …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $2.1M | $163K | $300 | $5.9M |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $2M | $186K | $0 | $5.9M |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $2.5M | $1.9M | $170K | — | $6M |
| 2021 | $2.7M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $69K | $5,000 | $5.8M |
| 2020 | $7.8M | $2.5M | $1.9M | $107K | $500 | $5.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $300 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $250K from 29 charities:
- Abundance Canada$118K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$20K
- The Evangelical Mennonite Conference$18K
- Thiessen Dedicated Trust$15K
- Christian Mennonite Conference$13K
- Blumenort Community Church Inc.$13K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- Evangelical Fellowship Church$6,531
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,400
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,450
- Faith Academy Inc.$3,000
- South Park Mennonite Brethren Church Inc.$2,900
- Niverville Community Fellowship Inc.$2,815
- Steinbach Mennonite Brethren Church$2,500
- Straffordville Evangelical Mennonite Church$2,400
- Rosenort Evangelical Mennonite Church$2,000
- The Winkler Community Foundation Inc.$2,000
- Evangelical Mennonite Church$2,000
- La Crete Christian Fellowship$1,956
- Bethel Bergthaler Mennonite Church$1,500
- Word of Life Mission Church Inc.$1,200
- Carman Pentecostal Assembly$1,000
- Fourth Avenue Bible Church$768
- Evangelical Mennonite Mission Conference$750
- Gospel Fellowship Church$700
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darrell Kehler (director); Elvira Wallmann (treasurer); Michael Zwaagstra (vice chair); Walter Fast (director); Arlin Scharfenberg (director); Bruce Penner (chair); Russ Neufeld (director); Abe Bergen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Steinbach Bible College Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 749304085RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.