Vandebelt Charitable Trust
Private foundation · Cambridge, Ontario · BN 119282424RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,819) as filed with the CRA.
Vandebelt Charitable Trust is a private foundation based in Cambridge, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $9,472 in revenue and $11K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 16 qualified donees totalling $10K in 2024, the largest being $2,000 to Christian Stewardship Services. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Vandebelt charitable trust provides financial assistance to religious organizations to promote: the advancement of christianity the relief of poverty and the advancement of education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9,472 | $11K | — | — | $10K | $204K |
| 2023 | $9,716 | $7,373 | — | — | $6,875 | $205K |
| 2022 | $7,097 | $10K | — | — | $9,800 | $203K |
| 2021 | $13K | $16K | — | — | $16K | $204K |
| 2020 | $9,429 | $11K | — | — | $10K | $206K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $10K to 16 qualified donees:
- Christian Stewardship Services$2,000
- The Evangelical Alliance Mission of Canada Inc.$1,000
- Operation Mobilization Canada$900
- The Samaritan's Purse - Canada$800
- L'Heure de la Bonne Nouvelle Inc.$700
- New Life Prison Ministries$700
- Generation Rising$700
- Cambridge Christian School Society$600
- The Refuge Youth Outreach Centre$500
- Eagle Street Christian Fellowship$500
- MSC Canada$400
- e3 Ministry Canada$300
- Jews for Jesus/juifs pour Jesus$300
- Discipleship Christian Secondary School$300
- Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada$300
- Guelph Bible Conference Centre$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Klaas Vandebelt (trustee); Pauli Vandebelt (trustee); Rob Vandebelt (trustee); Eleanore Vandebelt (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vandebelt Charitable Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119282424RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.