The Samaritan's Purse - Canada
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119138527RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($66,525,869) as filed with the CRA.
The Samaritan's Purse - Canada is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $72.4M in revenue and $66.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from donations, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 619 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $10M.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 111 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $59K in 2024, the largest being $28K to Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada Inc.. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $45.4M in 2020 to $72.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Samaritan's purse is involved in spreading the gospel of jesus christ to the utmost parts of the world and exemplifying christianity to others by acts and deeds patterned after that of the good samaritan (luke 10). Our ministry work is primarily accomplished through overseas agents and partners whose activities are recognized by the board of directors to be consistent with the charitable objectives of the corporation. We share the gospel as we undertake overseas ministry programs which include: emergency reponse/disaster relief; distributing gift-filled shoeboxes to children in developing co…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $72.4M | $66.5M | $58.3M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $55.4M |
| 2023 | $60.3M | $61.3M | $51.3M | $1.6M | $3.8M | $49.7M |
| 2022 | $69.4M | $61.7M | $55.4M | $1.8M | $438K | $50.6M |
| 2021 | $53.5M | $47.1M | $41.3M | $1.5M | $292K | $42.9M |
| 2020 | $45.4M | $38.7M | $33.5M | $1.5M | $85K | $36.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $59K to 7 qualified donees:
- Native Evangelical Fellowship of Canada Inc.$28K
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association of Canada$15K
- North Shuswap Christian Fellowship (1998)$6,132
- Mennonite Disaster Service Canada Inc.$6,000
- INTERTRIBAL CHRISTIAN COMMUNICATIONS (CANADA) Inc.$2,110
- The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada/alliance Évangélique du Canada$1,350
- Canadian Centre for Christian Charities$1,000
Received $10M from 619 charities:
- Masterpiece Charitable Foundation$3.5M
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$1.3M
- Weston Family Foundation$880K
- Coram Deo Foundation$486K
- Canadahelps Canadon$327K
- Canadahelps Canadon$327K
- Canada Gives$257K
- The Shoebox Workshop Waterloo Region$199K
- Fraser Valley Gleaners Society$197K
- The Arthur J E Child Foundation$175K
- Abundance Canada$149K
- Jesus Saves Charitable Foundation$120K
- The Foundation Office.ca$107K
- The Calgary Foundation$106K
- The Christian Broadcasting Associates Inc.$96K
- Koinonia Charitable Trust$75K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$72K
- Aqueduct Foundation$71K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$53K
- Joe & Debbie Vidal Foundation Inc.$52K
- The Damascus Road Foundation$51K
- Burgundy Legacy Foundation$50K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$48K
- BenefAction Foundation$41K
- Health Partners International of Canada$38K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions111
- Total compensation, all staff$12.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
W.franklin Graham (chairman); Dennis Glubish (vice chairman); Jack Neufeld (director); Giulio Gabeli (director); Paul Saber (director); Ruth Ross (secretary); Brian Pauls (director); Ken Stankievech (treasurer); William Graham (director); Edward Graham (director); Peter Chung (director); E. Darrell Riemer (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Samaritan's Purse - Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119138527RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.