The Bethesda Foundation Incorporated
Public foundation · Steinbach, Manitoba · BN 119215762RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,260,469) as filed with the CRA.
The Bethesda Foundation Incorporated is a public foundation based in Steinbach, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from donations. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $578K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $964K in 2024, the largest being $939K to Southern Rha. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Income distribution to promote welfare and good of any hospital personal care home institution organization entity of similar institution delivering health care services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.3M | $34K | $78K | $964K | $11.8M |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $377K | $28K | $65K | $102K | $11.1M |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.7M | $11K | $86K | $1.4M | $10M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $3.6M | $46K | $49K | $3.4M | $9.7M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $1.3M | $26K | $48K | $1M | $11.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $964K to 2 qualified donees:
- Southern Rha$939K
- Southeast Cancer Support Services Inc.$25K
Received $578K from 25 charities:
- The Winnipeg Foundation$250K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$100K
- Abundance Canada$70K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Southland Church Inc.$10K
- T & L Neufeld Trust$10K
- Christian Mennonite Conference$2,250
- Christian Fellowship Church (Mennonite) of Steinbach Manitoba$2,100
- Brian Kliewer Family Memorial Foundation Inc$2,000
- Steinbach Mennonite Brethren Church$1,800
- ST. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church of Steinbach Inc.$1,650
- Grace Mennonite Church$1,600
- Ridgewood Evangelical Mennonite Church$1,500
- The Steinbach Community Foundation Inc.$1,459
- Prairie Rose Evangelical Mennonite Church$1,320
- Pansy Chapel$1,250
- Steinbach Mennonite Church$1,000
- Calvary Church of Steinbach Inc.$1,000
- Evangelical Fellowship Church$1,000
- The Canadian Mission Board of the Church of God in Canada$1,000
- Evangelical Mennonite Church$500
- Kleefeld Christian Community Inc$300
- Sprague Baptist Church$150
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$110
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$78K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Timothy Giesbrecht (director); Waldo Neustaedter (vice chair); Christine Beaumont (director); Karen Toews (director); Kent Ledingham (director); Keith Ungr (director); Henry Van de Velde (secretary); Curtis Krahn (director); Chris Goertzen (chair); Amanda Peters (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Bethesda Foundation Incorporated’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119215762RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.