The Vancouver Chinese Evangelical Free Church
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 108166497RR0001 · Christianity · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,546,957) as filed with the CRA.
The Vancouver Chinese Evangelical Free Church is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $29K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 22 qualified donees totalling $183K in 2024, the largest being $62K to The Evangelical Free Church of Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
1) public services for worship and prayer; 2) mission/evangelism programs; 3) relief/benevolence programs; 4) religious education programs; and 5) funding of other registered charities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $1,116 | $189K | $7.6M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $1M | — | $186K | $7.7M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $888K | — | $152K | $7.8M |
| 2021 | $1M | $1M | $843K | — | $157K | $7.7M |
| 2020 | $965K | $1M | $800K | — | $156K | $7.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $183K to 22 qualified donees:
- The Evangelical Free Church of Canada$62K
- Wycliffe Bible Translators of Canada Inc.$29K
- Lower Pacific District of the Evangelical Free Church of Canada$27K
- Operation Mobilization Canada$23K
- Chinese Christian Mission of Canada$7,500
- Far East Broadcasting Associates of Canada$6,300
- The Evangelical Free Church of Canada - Canadian Pacific District$4,400
- Trinity Western University$4,200
- Power to Change Ministries$3,600
- Vancouver Chinese Christian Short Term Mission Training Centre Society$2,700
- Chineses Coordination Centre of World Evangelism (canada)$2,500
- Showers of Blessing Evangelistic Ministry$2,500
- Chinese International Missions (canada)$2,100
- Canadian Chinese School of Theology Vancouver$1,500
- Overseas Missionary Fellowship$1,100
- Regent College$1,100
- Lighthouse Harbour Ministries$1,100
- Langham Partnership of Canada for Global Christian Education Inc.$1,000
- Mission Central Christian Society$600
- Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada$100
- The Media Evangelism Association$100
- Chinese Christian Herald Crusades (canada) Herald Monthly$100
Received $29K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$879K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stella Yee Ping Lee (secretary); Joel Chung Kei Yung (director); Christina Lai (director); Chung Yan Ip (treasurer / chair); Martin To (personnel chair); Yeda Hong (ex-officio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Vancouver Chinese Evangelical Free Church’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108166497RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.