Chabad Hope Center / Centre de l'espoir Chabad
Charitable organization · Montreal, Quebec · BN 831324447RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,411,981) as filed with the CRA.
Chabad Hope Center / Centre de l'espoir Chabad is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.2M in revenue and $4.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 34% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.6M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $343K in 2024, the largest being $217K to Congregation Bais Menachem Chabad-Lubavitch. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.4M in 2020 to $5.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Operations cosist of a low-priced goods grocery store for disadvantaged jewish faimilies in montreal qc. Goods carried are all kosher specialty foods.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.2M | $4.4M | $4.2M | — | $343K | $3.1M |
| 2023 | $5.5M | $4.4M | $4.1M | — | $230K | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $3.5M | $3.3M | $3.1M | — | — | $855K |
| 2021 | $2.8M | $2.1M | $2.1M | — | $271K | $590K |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $2.2M | $2.2M | — | $395K | -$90K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $343K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $2.6M from 14 charities:
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1.8M
- Congregation Bais Menachem Chabad-Lubavitch$291K
- Federation Cja$165K
- Hatzolas Yisroel D'Arizal$140K
- The Burning Bush Foundation$100K
- Protech Foundation/fondation Protech$20K
- Chabad Chai Center / Centre Chabad Chai$17K
- Residence Sepharade Salomon (communaute Sepharade Unifiee du Quebec)$13K
- Centre Chabad De Ville Mont Royal / Chabad Centre of The Town of Mount Royal$3,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,000
- Centre Chabad De Ville Mont Royal / Chabad Centre of The Town of Mount Royal$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$265
- Canadahelps Canadon$49
- McMillan Family Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elimelech Kessler (president); Barry Mintz (vice-president); Mayer Treitel (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chabad Hope Center / Centre de l'espoir Chabad’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 831324447RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.