The Meeting House Church Family
Charitable organization · Oakville, Ontario · BN 856684543RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($5,544,859) as filed with the CRA.
The Meeting House Church Family is a charitable organization based in Oakville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $4.1M in revenue and $5.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from donations. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $147K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 53 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $427K in 2024, the largest being $183K to Be in Christ Church of Canada. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $11.5M in 2020 to $4.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Religious purposes local church services including youth and childrens programs mission work through qualified donees ocmmunity outreach and pastoral care home church (small group meetings) creation/writing of curriculum for youth children and adult ministries support various outreaches for the purpose of extending jesus' gospel message through teaching and relational connections amongst like-minded christians.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $5.5M | $4.4M | $399 | $427K | $7.8M |
| 2023 | $5.5M | $7.4M | $5.8M | — | $799K | $9.2M |
| 2022 | $9.3M | $10.6M | $8.9M | $2,078 | $1.6M | $11.1M |
| 2021 | $11.5M | $9.2M | $7.8M | $3,659 | $1.4M | $12.4M |
| 2020 | $11.5M | $11.2M | $9.3M | $16K | $1.3M | $10.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $427K to 25 qualified donees:
- Be in Christ Church of Canada$183K
- Mennonite Central Committee Ontario$80K
- Woodland Cultural Centre$15K
- BIC Canada - Global$15K
- Urbanpromise Toronto$13K
- Matthew House Ottawa$12K
- The Yonge Street Mission$10K
- Front Line Outreach$10K
- Adventure4Change$10K
- Youth With A Mission (BC) Society$10K
- Connect City$8,881
- Helping Hands Street Mission$7,400
- Oasis Dufferin Community Centre$7,200
- Adam House$6,871
- The Baby Depot$6,221
- The Sharing Place of Toronto Inc.$5,572
- Regeneration Outreach Community$5,000
- Jericho Road Ministries - Ministere Route de Jericho$5,000
- Contact Community Services$5,000
- The Dale Ministries$3,426
- Richmond Hill Christian Community Church$2,975
- Rising Angels Awareness & Restorative Care$1,925
- The Trustee Board of the Presbyterian Church in Canada$1,800
- Out of the Cold Foundation$1,100
- The Dam$417
Received $147K from 10 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$8,683
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$8,437
- Faith Community Church New Tecumseth$7,853
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$6,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$316
- Harvest City Church Inc.$20
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,99924 positions
- $1–39,99922 positions
- Permanent full-time positions53
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yohan Mahimwala (director); James Fletcher (treasurer); Brent Babcock (vice chair); Sharon Beck (director); Max Chute (director); Tonia Blenkam (chair); Anna Visscher (director); Houston Cheung (director); Bernard Chan (director); Charlie Mashinter (director); Steven Kuhn (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Meeting House Church Family’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 856684543RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.