Town Light Ministries
Charitable organization · Burnaby, British Columbia · BN 853053148RR0001 · Support of Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($69,025) as filed with the CRA.
Town Light Ministries is a charitable organization based in Burnaby, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $84K in revenue and $69K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations.
Compared with 13,471 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $200 in 2024, the largest being $200 to Breakthrough Missions Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $39K in 2020 to $84K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
To raise the awareness of global mission (especially in china) amongst local churches by co-ordination and organizing various seminars workshops and conference with the focus on bible teaching and prayers. To support missions and missionaries in china by giving out bible christian spiritual literatures and humanitarian relief through the joint ministry with rcmi hk
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $84K | $69K | $63K | — | $200 | $22K |
| 2023 | $36K | $46K | $40K | — | $200 | $7,783 |
| 2022 | $43K | $33K | $27K | — | — | $18K |
| 2021 | $21K | $26K | $19K | — | — | $8,717 |
| 2020 | $39K | $25K | $22K | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $200 to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$41K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Man Hon Lau (director/chairperson); Mon Hau Yeung (director/treasurer); Man Fai Tsang (director/secretary); Siu Cho Chan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Town Light Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 853053148RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.