The Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia
Charitable organization · Abbotsford, British Columbia · BN 119244960RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($156,910) as filed with the CRA.
The Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia is a charitable organization based in Abbotsford, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $222K in revenue and $157K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $18K.
Compared with 724 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 69% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
In its own words
The society operates to archive and to collect material relevant to mennonite history and to make material available to researchers and lay scholars. It sponsors lectures and artistic events to purvey information on mennonite history and culture. The society publishes a newsletter 3 to 4 times a year. The society is involved in an ongoing digitization project which converts microfilm images and articles to an electronic format to allow greater access for the society's stakeholders. It is also involved in scanning photos and adding archival descriptive records to a database with multiple reposi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $222K | $157K | $140K | $0 | $0 | $783K |
| 2023 | $170K | $147K | $26K | $1,962 | $0 | $721K |
| 2022 | $120K | $137K | $21K | $3,108 | — | $698K |
| 2021 | $104K | $123K | $12K | — | — | $791K |
| 2020 | $238K | $119K | $24K | — | — | $760K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $18K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$70K
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 Mennonite Historical Society of British Columbia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119244960RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.