The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Charitable organization · Lacombe, Alberta · BN 106693047RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($29,085,300) as filed with the CRA.
The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church is a charitable organization based in Lacombe, Alberta, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $39.3M in revenue and $29.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 5% from government, 62% from other charities. In 2024, 94 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $20.9M.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 255 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 47 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $1.1M to Burman University. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $25M in 2020 to $39.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 21 names.
In its own words
Our organization operates 11 schools throughout the province of Alberta offering Christian education from prekindergarten through grade 12. We operate an online virtual classroom as well. We have summer youth camp program for a variety of ages as for the virtually impaired. Programs promoting health lifestyle and educating the public on proper nutrition and exercise the negative effects of smoking drugs and alcohol on the body. We minister to inmates singles families the deaf and the blind and oversee 82 local churches and companies and their programs. We also have a disaster and relief …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $39.3M | $29.1M | $8.9M | $79K | $1.8M | $36.1M |
| 2023 | $37.9M | $36.4M | $8.2M | $62K | $11.9M | $36.4M |
| 2022 | $32.1M | $31.1M | $5.4M | $46K | $10.3M | $32.6M |
| 2021 | $33M | $29.2M | $6.1M | $22K | $9.8M | $30.8M |
| 2020 | $25M | $25.5M | $15.4M | $20K | $8.1M | $27.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 47 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Burman University$1.1M
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$117K
- Morning Star Seventh-day Adventist Church$100K
- Adra Canada$100K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$50K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$29K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$26K
- Leduc Seventh-Day Adventist Church$26K
- Calgary Central Seventh-Day Adventist Church$24K
- Edmonton African Seventh-day Adventist Company$21K
- Lethbridge Seventh-Day Adventist Church$20K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$15K
- Maskwacis Company of the Seventh-day Adventist Church$13K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$12K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$11K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$9,000
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$9,000
- Edmonton Ghanaian Seventh-day Adventist Church$8,230
- Red Deer Seventh-Day Adventist Church$7,576
- Edmonton Filipino Seventh-day Adventist Church$7,142
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$5,750
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$5,265
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$4,700
- Lifestyle Canada Education Service$3,417
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$3,200
Received $20.9M from 94 charities:
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$2.6M
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$2M
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Canada$1.3M
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$942K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$828K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$641K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$598K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$533K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$512K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$500K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$489K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$440K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$437K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$420K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$407K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$381K
- Edmonton Filipino Seventh-day Adventist Church$380K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$377K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$357K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$302K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$279K
- Medicine Hat Seventh-day Adventist Church$251K
- Calgary Metro Filipino Seventh-day Adventist Church$239K
- Bentley Seventh-day Adventist Church$220K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$219K
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 positions255
- Total compensation, all staff$21.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Williams (human resources director); Keith Richter (chief financial officer); Griffin Webster (executive committee member); Miguel Brown (executive committee member); Tyler Rosengren (ministerial director); Middin Galve-Sumiller (executive committee member); Michael Willing (principal); Mikelle Lindsey Reece Wile (executive committee member); James Wesley (pastor); Tendai Mashonganyika (executive committee member); Maria Luisa Jovanovic (executive committee member); Melody Fayne Metangyaon llacas (executive committee member); Dex Vivian Patrick Ricardo Gittens (executive committee member); Thaksheela Dorelus (executive committee member); Sibusisiwe Tinotenda Dzingirayi (executive committee member); Innocent Bvochora (executive committee member); Jeff Potts (president); Melissa Cooke (executive secretary); Benjamin Kingsley P. Acquah (executive committee member); Angela Dawn Letniak (executive committee member); Proscovia Nabafu (executive committee member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106693047RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.