Coptic Orphans Support association
Charitable organization · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 879517712RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,110,790) as filed with the CRA.
Coptic Orphans Support association is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.2M in revenue and $6.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $98K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Improve the lives of orphans and other vulnerable children in egypt by providing basic needs education and mentoring so that they may realize their potential in society.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.2M | $6.1M | $5.5M | $542K | — | $529K |
| 2023 | $4.7M | $4.9M | $4.4M | $444K | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $4.7M | $4.6M | $4.1M | $465K | — | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $4.3M | $4.8M | $4.4M | $340K | — | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $4.1M | $3.1M | $2.7M | $312K | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $98K from 12 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$57K
- Aqueduct Foundation$12K
- Archangel Raphael & St. Marina Coptic Orthodox Church$8,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,378
- Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate Church of Saint Paul the Anchorite$5,100
- BenefAction Foundation$3,800
- Notre-Dame de Zeitoun Foundation$2,500
- The Winnipeg Foundation$870
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$476
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$449
- United Way of Calgary and Area$417
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$548K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nermien Riad (executive director); Mark Nakhla (administrative director); Hani Sharobim (administrative director); Amgad Bassili (administrative director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Coptic Orphans Support association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 879517712RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.