The Ottawa Chinese Alliance Church
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 710791542RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,614,044) as filed with the CRA.
The Ottawa Chinese Alliance Church is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from donations, 25% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $366K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 39 qualified donees totalling $302K in 2024, the largest being $97K to The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada/ l'Alliance Chretienne et Missionnaire au Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
1. Worship God. 2. Spread the Gospel of Jesus Christ 3. Provide Christian education 4. Organize missions conferences and encourage participation in short-term missions projects 5. Engage in social concern 6. Provide caring to church members and others 7. Carry out all administrative operations to fulfill the above programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.6M | $1.3M | — | $302K | $5.4M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.5M | $1.2M | — | $297K | $5.1M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.8M | $1.4M | — | $317K | $4.8M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $910K | — | $252K | $4.7M |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $900K | — | $225K | $4.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $302K to 39 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada/ l'Alliance Chretienne et Missionnaire au Canada$97K
- The Canadian Chinese Alliance Churches Association$56K
- The Eastern Canadian District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$20K
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship$15K
- Ambrose University$11K
- Toronto Youth for Christ$8,500
- Gracious Light Christian Centre Inc.$8,000
- Chineses Coordination Centre of World Evangelism (canada)$7,500
- Chinese Christian Herald Crusades (canada) Herald Monthly$7,000
- Send International of Canada Inc.$6,798
- Showers of Blessing Evangelistic Ministry$6,500
- Gospel Operation International for Chinese Christians$6,000
- Canadian Chinese School of Theology Vancouver$5,500
- Chinese Christian Mission of Canada$4,500
- Alliance chrétienne et missionnaire au Québec/Christian and Missionary Alliance in Québec$4,110
- Mainland Chinese Presbyterian Church$4,000
- Operation Mobilization Canada$3,500
- Child Evangelism Fellowship of Ontario$3,150
- Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship of Canada$3,000
- The Evangelical Free Church of Canada$3,000
- Emmanuel Alliance Church of Ottawa$2,500
- Ottawa Innercity Ministries$2,000
- École de théologie évangélique du Québec$2,000
- Tyndale University$2,000
- Africa Inland Mission International (canada)$2,000
Received $366K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$328K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nick Wong (elder); Julian Louie (elder); Edward Cheng (elder); Jonathan Loo (treasurer); Van Fong (elder); Siu-Hung Chow (secretary); Hao Cheng (elder); Victor Li (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Ottawa Chinese Alliance Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 710791542RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.