The Meeting House Church Family

2700 Bristol Circle
Oakville, ON L6H 6E1
Founder: Timothy Bruce (Bruxy) Cavey
Board Chair: Dave Lees

Charitable Reg. #:85668 4543 RR0001

STAR RATING

Ci's Star Rating is calculated based on the following independent metrics:

[Charity Rating: 3/5]

✔+

FINANCIAL TRANSPARENCY

Audited financial statements for current and previous years available on the charity’s website.

C+

RESULTS REPORTING

Grade based on the charity's public reporting of the work it does and the results it achieves.

n/r

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.

86%

CENTS TO THE CAUSE

For a dollar donated, after overhead costs of fundraising and admin/management (excluding surplus) 86 cents are available for programs.



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OVERVIEW

About The Meeting House Church Family:

The Meeting House is a 3-star, financially transparent charity. It has a below average results reporting grade and its overhead costs are within Ci’s reasonable range. The charity has $2.1m in reserve funds which can cover just under three months of program costs. In 2022, Founder Bruxy Cavey was arrested on charges of sexual assault. Before you give, read Charity Intelligence's report.

Founded in 1985 as Upper Oaks Community Church, The Meeting House Church Family (MHCF) is a Christian church. MHCF is part of Be in Christ Church of Canada, a branch of the international Brethren in Christ or BIC Churches. MHCF works to follow “Jesus’ irreligious message,” without the rules and rituals it attributes to organized religions. The main facility is in Oakville and there are 18 additional locations in Ontario. 

The charity organizes hour-long Sunday morning services that include Jesus-centred teaching, music, prayer and volunteering. The Meeting House offers these services in person and streams them online. In addition, it offers meetings during the week in homes through its Home Church program. The charity’s Kidmax Sunday morning program offers Jesus-centred teaching to children up to grade five and provides them with take-home materials. The Meeting House offers a similar program for youth up to grade 12 that includes an additional midweek meeting. The charity reports that in F2022, about 2055 people attended Sunday services weekly, both in person and online. It adds that 314 children engaged in its programs every week and the Home Church program had 501 weekly attendees.

MHCF operates a compassion fund which grants money to local and global charities working for peace, dealing with poverty, and spreading Christian messages. In F2022, MHCF granted $1.6 million to 46 registered Canadian charities. Its largest grants were to the Jesus Collective ($478k), Be in Christ Church of Canada ($461k) and the Mennonite Central Committee Ontario ($202k).

December 2021: The Meeting House founder and pastor, Bruxy Cavey, has been placed on temporary leave by the board of directors reports Yonat Shimron of Roys Report while allegations of sexual misconduct are investigated. Subsequently Bruxy Cavey has resigned from the mega-church.  Christian News reports Bruxy Cavey was arrested and charged with sexual assault on additional allegations in March 2022. 

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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 The Meeting House’s results and impact.

This charity is not yet rated on impact (n/r).

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Finances

The Meeting House Church Family is financially transparent. Its audited financial statements are publicly available on its website.

The Meeting House Church Family received donations of $8.6m in F2022. Administrative costs are 14% of revenues and fundraising costs are 0% of revenues, resulting in 14% of overhead spending. This means for every dollar donated, 86 are available for the charity’s programs. This is within Ci’s reasonable range for overhead spending.  

MHCF has $2.1m in reserve funds ($5.3m in gross reserve funds less $3.2m in interest-bearing debts), which can cover just under three months of annual program costs.

This charity report is an update that has been sent to The Meeting House for review.  

Updated on July 25, 2023 by Victoria Allder.

Financial Review


Financial Ratios

Fiscal year ending June
202220212020
Administrative costs as % of revenues 14.1%8.7%9.3%
Fundraising costs as % of donations 0.0%0.0%0.0%
Total overhead spending 14.1%8.7%9.3%
Program cost coverage (%) 23.9%36.5%2.2%

Summary Financial Statements

All figures in $000s
202220212020
Donations 8,63710,71310,914
Government funding 151339
Business activities (net) 27475267
Investment income 7633
Other income 1646899
Total revenues 9,09810,87611,352
Program costs 6,9306,1998,083
Grants 1,6431,4211,266
Administrative costs 1,2819461,055
Fundraising costs 000
Other costs 140150161
Total spending 9,9948,71610,564
Cash flow from operations (896)2,160788
Capital spending 123165131
Funding reserves 2,0502,780205

Note: Ci presents business activities income net of expenses, affecting revenues and expenses by ($147k) in F2022, ($38k) in F2021 and ($169k) in F2020. Property fund – gain on disposal of property and equipment was not included in revenues, affecting revenues by ($40k) in F2022, ($14k) in F2021 and ($8k) in F2020. Ci removed grants from program expenses and reported them separately based on the charity’s T3010 filing with the CRA.  In F2021, Ci included special one-time donations in donations, increasing revenue by $500k.  

Salary Information

Full-time staff: 72

Avg. compensation: $81,501

Top 10 staff salary range:

$350k +
0
$300k - $350k
0
$250k - $300k
0
$200k - $250k
0
$160k - $200k
0
$120k - $160k
2
$80k - $120k
8
$40k - $80k
0
< $40k
0

Information from most recent CRA Charities Directorate filings for F2022

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Charity Contact

Website: www.themeetinghouse.com
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