Center of Dreams and Hopes
Publicly funded institution · Montréal-Nord, Quebec · BN 804220952RR0001 · Supportive Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,950,404) as filed with the CRA.
Center of Dreams and Hopes is a charitable organization based in Montréal-Nord, Quebec, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $2.1M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $132K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $35K in 2024, the largest being $35K to Centre of Dreams and Hopes Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $788K in 2020 to $2.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Assist and organize therapies for special needs children and young adults both mentally and physically. The primary program is the respite which is weekend care for special needs children. Npo also runs smaller programs such as a summer camp and adult education for the special needs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $2M | $1.7M | — | $35K | $542K |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $1.5M | $1.3M | — | — | $405K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $934K | — | — | $26K |
| 2021 | $645K | $884K | $539K | — | $211K | $11K |
| 2020 | $788K | $791K | $496K | — | — | $248K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $35K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $132K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Josephine Primiani (president); Abby Peluso (secretary); Linda Cianfaglia (treasurer); Maria Lucia Beltran Mihajlovic (administrator); Giuseppina Teoli (administrator); Alain Fournier (administrator); Michael Gioia (administrator); Sirjurick-Felipe Gibson (administrator).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Center of Dreams and Hopes’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 804220952RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.