Creating Opportunities for Guatemalans
Charitable organization · Lasalle, Quebec · BN 839082385RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($189,283) as filed with the CRA.
Creating Opportunities for Guatemalans is a charitable organization based in Lasalle, Quebec, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $206K in revenue and $189K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $21K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
To advance education to unskilled impoverished people in guatemala through training and skills programs provide sponsorship so children can attend school provide after-school educational support operate preschool provide nutrition education by mothers. Teach welding and metal work skills. Provide nutritional snacks to sponsored students. Provide frequent medical and visual clinics provide sponsored students with ongoing dental care. Providing groceries on a regular basis to food-challenged famiilies rotary interact impacto cultural gn youth rotary club whose members are the adolesce…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $206K | $189K | $137K | $6,303 | — | $218K |
| 2023 | $157K | $203K | $152K | $2,068 | — | $200K |
| 2022 | $206K | $158K | $120K | $753 | — | $224K |
| 2021 | $182K | $148K | $114K | $575 | — | $167K |
| 2020 | $144K | $108K | $97K | $1,294 | — | $153K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $21K 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$89K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrea Chisholm (president); William Garcia (vice president); Sue Bohenstengel (secretary); Riley Starr (director); Nosberto Lou (director); Vicki Horsfield (executive director); Dustin Johnson (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Creating Opportunities for Guatemalans’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 839082385RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.