The Canadian Council of Churches
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 118830512RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,849,359) as filed with the CRA.
The Canadian Council of Churches is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 46% from donations, 7% from government, 43% from other charities. In 2024, 63 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $560K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Ongoing programs: The Canadian Council of Churches responds to Christ’s call for unity and peace seeks Christ’s truth with an affection for diversity and acts in love through prayer dialogue and witness to the gospel. Ongoing programs of The Canadian Council of Churches include convening and hosting conversations on ? Christian citizenship and religious pluralism: The Commission on Faith and Witness is a gathering place for churches seeking a common theological understanding to guide action. ? ending poverty racial reconciliation ending sexual exploitation and human trafficking correc…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $133K | — | $752K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.9M | $1.6M | $67K | — | $1M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $37K | — | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $37K | — | $2M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $41K | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $560K from 63 charities:
- Abundance Canada$181K
- Concacan Inc.$85K
- The United Church of Canada$55K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$32K
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada$23K
- The Trustee Board of the Presbyterian Church in Canada$22K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$20K
- The Simons Foundation Canada$15K
- The Trustee Board of the Presbyterian Church in Canada$12K
- Mennonite Church Canada$11K
- Mennonite Central Committee Canada$10K
- Community of Christ$10K
- ST Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church$8,000
- Abundance Canada$7,035
- Scarboro Foreign Mission Society$5,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Baptists of Western Canada$3,200
- The Loretto Ladies' Colleges and Schools$3,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$3,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$3,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$2,815
- The United Church of Canada$2,500
- Fellowship Community Church of Edmonton$2,324
- The Daly Foundation$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Canadian Council of Churches’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118830512RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.