The Mustard Seed Street Church
Charitable organization · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 119246213RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,110,248) as filed with the CRA.
The Mustard Seed Street Church is a charitable organization based in Victoria, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.9M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations, 6% from government, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 65 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $12K in 2024, the largest being $6,000 to Canadian Baptists of Western Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Christian worship/church pastoral care outreach prison visitation rehabilitation from addictions (hope farm) food bank fairstart school supplies family centre clothing bank pre-employemnt programs. Volunteers are a pillar of our organization
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.9M | $4.1M | $3.7M | $175K | $13K | $0 |
| 2023 | $4.4M | $3.7M | $3.3M | $154K | $13K | $692K |
| 2022 | $4M | $3.3M | $2.9M | $178K | $13K | $0 |
| 2021 | $5.5M | $2.8M | $2.3M | $172K | $13K | $0 |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $2.8M | $2.4M | $222K | $8,710 | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $12K to 2 qualified donees:
- Canadian Baptists of Western Canada$6,000
- Canadian Baptist Ministries$6,000
Received $1.4M from 65 charities:
- Food Banks British Columbia$393K
- Canadahelps Canadon$119K
- Canadahelps Canadon$119K
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada$118K
- The Victoria Foundation$97K
- Loaves and Fishes Community Food Bank Society$84K
- Times Colonist Christmas Fund Society$75K
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$67K
- Aqueduct Foundation$39K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$36K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- United Way British Columbia$15K
- Church of Our Saviour (iacc)$14K
- BenefAction Foundation$11K
- Westerkirk Foundation$10K
- Traine Charitable Foundation$10K
- David Charitable Trust$10K
- Vancity Community Foundation$9,900
- Vancouver Foundation$8,500
- Victoria Christian Reformed Church$8,143
- Big Wheel Community Foundation$8,125
- Christian Stewardship Services$7,000
- Sovereign Order of ST. John Victoria Commandery Foundation$6,460
- The Central Baptist Church Victoria British Columbia$6,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Neil Hanson (chair); Peter Forbes (member at large); Heartha Hanson (secretary); Mann Colin (treasurer); Orr Lynn (member at large); Jones Barbara (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Mustard Seed Street Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119246213RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.