Focus Humanitarian Assistance Canada - Focus Assistance Humanitaire Canada
Charitable organization · Toronto, Ontario · BN 895647055RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($16,982,975) as filed with the CRA.
Focus Humanitarian Assistance Canada - Focus Assistance Humanitaire Canada is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $21.8M in revenue and $17M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from donations. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.9M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 71% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $1.5M to Aga Khan Foundation Geneva (switzeland). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.9M in 2020 to $21.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
1. Provide community-based disaster risk reduction initiative provide training conduct vulnerability and risk assessment and natural hazard mitigation projects; 2. Provide emergency response to natural and man made disasters through direct intervention; 3. Provide humanitarian assistance and relief to refugees and other vulnerable people; and 4. Sponsor and resettle refugees in canada and carry out other refugee related activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $21.8M | $17M | $14.4M | $519K | $1.6M | $20.6M |
| 2023 | $19.3M | $15.9M | $14.2M | $490K | $679K | $15.8M |
| 2022 | $16.4M | $13.3M | $8.9M | $554K | $3.7M | $12.4M |
| 2021 | $16.2M | $12.8M | $9.2M | $295K | $3.1M | $9.2M |
| 2020 | $7.9M | $7.9M | $7.4M | $319K | $2M | $7.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 2 qualified donees:
- Aga Khan Foundation Geneva (switzeland)$1.5M
- Aga Khan Foundation Canada$146K
Received $1.9M from 27 charities:
- Aga Khan Foundation Canada$1.4M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$215K
- Ventum Donor-Advised Foundation$76K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$75K
- Shiraz H. Jiwani Charitable Foundation$25K
- Ahamed Foundation$25K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$22K
- ZLC Foundation$15K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$12K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,291
- The Polykar Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$4,726
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,340
- BenefAction Foundation$4,000
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$2,500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$2,190
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,139
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,120
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$824
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$519
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$510
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$480
- United Way Golden Horseshoe$200
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Samir Manji (chairman); Shailaz Dhalla (vice chairperson); Shafik Jiwani (director); Aliyah Walji (director); Reza Kalfane (director); Rahim Dadani (director); Zak Arif (director); Zahra Nurmohamed (director); Mushtaq Kazani (executive director); Yousef Bhola (cfo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Focus Humanitarian Assistance Canada - Focus Assistance Humanitaire Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 895647055RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.