Urbanpromise Ministries
Charitable organization · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 893125963RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,050,362) as filed with the CRA.
Urbanpromise Ministries is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations, 8% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $517K.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $572K in 2020 to $1.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
In 2024 UrbanPromise Ministries (operating as 'Promise Vancouver') continued to provide year-round out-of-school programming for vulnerable children and adolescents (grades 1 to 7) in the DTES. For teens (grades 8-12) we ran our Young Leaders Program a program for local youth providing them opportunities to earn an income while receiving life-skills training opportunities to lead and adult mentoring relationships. Promise Vancouver continued to build partnerships/relationships with other organizations that provide social support in the community (e.g. Lord Strathcona Elementary School Va…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $695K | — | — | $156K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $954K | — | — | $141K |
| 2022 | $884K | $989K | $685K | — | — | $36K |
| 2021 | $802K | $976K | $672K | $2,710 | — | $185K |
| 2020 | $572K | $521K | $261K | — | — | $319K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $517K from 19 charities:
- Sasamat Foundation$300K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$52K
- B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundation$35K
- Coram Deo Foundation$30K
- Cause We Care Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$18K
- The Way Church$14K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$13K
- Living Hope Fellowship$8,500
- The First Baptist Church of Vancouver$7,000
- Grace Family Network Foundation$5,000
- The Victor & Anna Kern Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3,000
- The Foundation Office.ca$2,000
- Parkway Bible Church$1,200
- First Baptist Church$1,177
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$866
- Vancouver Foundation$634
- Riverside Christian Reformed Church$208
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$435K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Daniel John Nicholas de Regt (director); Phillip Young Lee (director); Ruth Fluevog (director); Andrew Charles Kowalenko (director); Helga Erika Scmidtke (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Urbanpromise Ministries’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893125963RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.