The Bridgeworks Hope to the World Foundation
Private foundation · Didsbury, Alberta · BN 842271694RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,942,058) as filed with the CRA.
The Bridgeworks Hope to the World Foundation is a private foundation based in Didsbury, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 20 qualified donees totalling $1.8M in 2024, the largest being $729K to Lifepath Ministries Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2020 to $3.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Bridgeworks will seek to 'live and proclaim' christ through its ministry to severely impoverished widows orphans and refugees by means of emergency relief vocational training community development and the nurturing and equipping of god's servants. The charity fulfills this commitment by partnering with other canadian registered charities as well as organizing its own mission trips to assist in education projects.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $1.9M | $90K | — | $1.8M | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $434K | $18K | — | $409K | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $750K | $2.1M | $1,765 | $2,538 | $2.1M | $308K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $645K | $5,043 | $985 | $635K | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $1M | $613K | $1,782 | — | $606K | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.8M to 20 qualified donees:
- Lifepath Ministries Society$729K
- Centre Street Church$350K
- Freedom Session International Ministries$160K
- Sim Canada$120K
- Goodseed Canada$75K
- Little Red Camping Association$60K
- Mission of Rural Egypt (m.o.r.e.)$50K
- Compassion Canada$50K
- Buckspring Foundation$34K
- Empower Ministries$30K
- Olds and Area Pregnancy Support Centre$25K
- Olds and Area Pregnancy Support Centre$25K
- Power to Change Ministries$22K
- Women in Need Society of Calgary$15K
- The Rock Community Church Mountain View County Fellowship$10K
- Rivers Edge Camping Association$5,000
- Forafrika$5,000
- Canadian Veterans Services Society$4,000
- The Canadian Mental Health Association Alberta Division and Centre for Suicide Prevention$2,000
- Youth Opportunities Unlimited$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Wayne Poffenroth (director); Vickie Poffenroth (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Bridgeworks Hope to the World Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 842271694RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.