The Living Rock Ministries
Charitable organization · Hamilton, Ontario · BN 883458812RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,233,727) as filed with the CRA.
The Living Rock Ministries is a charitable organization based in Hamilton, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.1M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 40% from government, 41% from other charities. In 2024, 44 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (9 positions in that band). The charity reported 13 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Provides urban ministry training and reaches out to street youth. Programs and services include breakfast program food bank coffee house work readiness and job placement youth volunteer program individual counselling visiting youth in custody housing support health promotion and youth chapel breakfast evening food bank weekends rock resources tri-rock employment program gathering wellness works & youth support services .
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $2.2M | $2M | $33K | — | $798K |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $2M | $1.8M | $40K | — | $955K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.6M | $20K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $1.9M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $16K | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.2M | $1M | $33K | — | $728K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 44 charities:
- Greater Hamilton Food Share$568K
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$148K
- Canadahelps Canadon$96K
- Canadahelps Canadon$96K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$68K
- The John & Ellie Voortman Charitable Foundation$40K
- Dofasco Employee Donations Fund Dofasco Inc.$15K
- Grace Community (ancaster) Christian Reformed Church$7,134
- Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation$5,000
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$5,000
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$4,588
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$4,400
- Bethel Gospel Tabernacle (hamilton) Incorporated$3,600
- Kingsway Lambton United Church$3,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,091
- Link Charity Canada Inc$3,000
- Forestview Community Church Grimsby Ontario$3,000
- Christian Stewardship Services$2,552
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$2,442
- Calvin (dundas) Christian Reformed Church$2,004
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$2,000
- The Canadian Reformed Church of Burlington South$2,000
- Immanuel Christian Reformed Church of Hamilton$1,744
- Calvary Christian Reformed Church of Flamborough$1,536
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions13
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter Boushy (director); Mark Corriveau (board chair); Chad Paddock (director); Ken Jean (treasurer); Corrie Mulder (director); Chris Mantel (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Living Rock Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 883458812RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.