Touchstone Ministries
Charitable organization · Orangeville, Ontario · BN 119267821RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($127,044) as filed with the CRA.
Touchstone Ministries is a charitable organization based in Orangeville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $67K in revenue and $127K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 38% from donations, 60% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $103K.
Compared with 13,471 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $129K in 2020 to $67K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Touchstone engages in formal & informal activities to propagate the gospel of jesus christ. This includes spiritual mentoring of leaders small groups studies spiritual retreats production of materials for spiritual instruction & direction fellowship events crisis counselling to couples & individuals advice and support to agencies aiding the poor in the name of christ.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $67K | $127K | $117K | — | — | $3,304 |
| 2023 | $116K | $149K | $143K | — | — | $66K |
| 2022 | $131K | $167K | $160K | — | — | $95K |
| 2021 | $138K | $167K | $16K | — | — | $142K |
| 2020 | $129K | $163K | $156K | — | — | $166K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $103K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Total compensation, all staff$70K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Matthais Benfey (director); S. Scott Cameron (chair); Martin Cobb (treasurer); Melanie Reist (director); Timothy Sinclair (director); Gretchen Van Riesen (director); Pekka Varvas (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Touchstone Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119267821RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.