Our Daily Bread
STAR RATINGCi's Star Rating is calculated based on the following independent metrics: |
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FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY
Audited financial statements available only through official request for information from Charities Directorate.
D
RESULTS REPORTING
Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.
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DEMONSTRATED IMPACT
The demonstrated impact per dollar Ci calculates from available program information.
NEED FOR FUNDING
Charity's cash and investments (funding reserves) relative to how much it spends on programs in most recent year.
85%
CENTS TO THE CAUSE
For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 85 cents are available for programs.
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OVERVIEW
About Our Daily Bread:
Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada is a 1-star charity with Low demonstrated impact. It has below average disclosure with a D results reporting grade. The charity is not financially transparent. For every dollar donated to Our Daily Bread Ministries, 85 cents are available to go to the cause.
Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada (ODBMC) is a non-denominational Christian charity that distributes Bible-based resources. It was incorporated in Windsor, Ontario in 1959 as the first office outside the United States of Our Daily Bread Ministries (ODBM), which began in 1938 as a Detroit radio program. Its stated mission is to make the wisdom of the Bible understandable and accessible to all.
The charity reports distributing over 2.5 million copies of Our Daily Bread (a quarterly booklet of short daily Bible readings and reflections) across Canada each year. It recently delivered copies of The Journey (an evangelistic book built around the Gospel of John) to 15,000 homes in LaSalle, Ontario. Globally, Our Daily Bread Ministries reports distributing more than 60 million resources in 150 countries through over 37 affiliated offices. Reported country-level distribution includes 240,000 resources a year in Nigeria, 70,000 in Kenya, and 56,000 quarterly publications in South Africa.
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Results and Impact
Charity Intelligence did not find any reported outcomes on the charity’s website. This may not be a complete representation of Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada’s results and impact.
Charity Intelligence has given Our Daily Bread Ministries of Canada a Low impact rating based on demonstrated impact per dollar.
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Finances
Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada is not financially transparent. It does not post its audited financial statements on its website. Ci obtained the statements through Corporations Canada. These statements use line-item costing, meaning they do not separate program, administrative, and fundraising costs. This is not a best practice.
In the fiscal year ending March 2025 (F2025), Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada earned $7.1m in revenue. It received $6.2m in donations (88% of total revenue), $526k in book sales (7% of total revenue), and $341k in investment income (5% of total revenue).
Administrative costs are 15% of revenues (less investment income). The charity reports no fundraising costs. Total overhead is 15%. For every dollar donated to ODBMC, 85 cents are available for programs. This is within Ci's reasonable range.
In F2025, ODBMC spent $5.5m on programs, or 77% of total revenue. It recorded a $604k surplus and spent $427k on capital projects.
ODBMC has $4.9m in reserve funds (cash and investments). The reserves can cover 90%, or roughly 11 months of program costs.
This charity update has been sent to Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada for review. Changes and edits may be forthcoming. Updated by Nick Reszetnik on July 30, 2026.
Financial Review
Fiscal year ending March
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2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Administrative costs as % of revenues | 15.3% | 16.6% | 14.7% |
| Total overhead spending | 15.3% | 16.6% | 14.7% |
| Program cost coverage (%) | 89.8% | 101.9% | 75.9% |
Summary Financial StatementsAll figures in $s |
2025 | 2024 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donations | 6,225,975 | 5,638,247 | 5,886,847 |
| Business activities (net) | 525,825 | 626,136 | 622,387 |
| Investment income | 341,488 | 309,143 | (26,848) |
| Total revenues | 7,093,288 | 6,573,526 | 6,482,386 |
| Program costs | 5,456,870 | 4,637,068 | 5,281,067 |
| Administrative costs | 1,032,106 | 1,041,673 | 956,344 |
| Cash flow from operations | 604,312 | 894,785 | 244,975 |
| Capital spending | 426,920 | 171,087 | 166,548 |
| Funding reserves | 4,902,366 | 4,727,413 | 4,006,668 |
Note: 1. T3010: Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada's audited financial statements use line-item costing and do not separate program, administrative, and fundraising costs. Ci used the charity's T3010 filing with the CRA to break these out. In F2025 and F2024, the charity's reported program and administrative costs summed to more than its reported total expenditures. Ci took administrative costs as filed and calculated program costs as total expenditures less administrative costs. This affected program costs by ($930k) in F2025 and ($108k) in F2024. Ci reports total expenses using total expenditures from the T3010. These are slightly lower than total expenses in the audited financial statements because the T3010 figure excludes the loss on disposal of assets. The difference is $1k in F2025, $30k in F2024, and $3k in F2023. 2. Amortization: To report on a cash basis, Ci removed amortization from program costs.
Salary Information
$350k + |
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$300k - $350k |
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$250k - $300k |
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$200k - $250k |
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$160k - $200k |
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$120k - $160k |
2 |
$80k - $120k |
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$40k - $80k |
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< $40k |
0 |
Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2025
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