Giving Refugees Hope in Uganda
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 820455939RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,981) as filed with the CRA.
Giving Refugees Hope in Uganda is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $151K in revenue and $8,981 in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from donations, 18% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $20K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 91% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
We sponsor poor Ugandan children to provide them with the opportunity of attending school. we also provide shoes meals and music classes for the children. we give free salon hair training for widowed women as well as sewing machine training. we provide brand new mattresses to poor families free of charge. we sponsor adults to attend ESL ( English as a second language Training). construction of Training Centre is completed and its providing space for workshops for educating widows on the different aspects of life Hair salon as well as sewing machine trauma sexual transmitted diseases. …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $151K | $8,981 | $8,981 | $0 | $0 | $26K |
| 2023 | $131K | $121K | — | — | $113K | $131K |
| 2022 | $114K | $114K | — | — | $108K | -$279 |
| 2021 | $96K | $91K | $8,143 | — | $83K | — |
| 2020 | $107K | $92K | — | — | $89K | $15K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $20K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Patrick Kizehe (network director); Vernon Rayner (chairperson); Jennifer Banas (medical centre director); Tammy Janzen (widow program director); Dr Richard Pidde (executive medical director); Andrea Rayner (children home director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Giving Refugees Hope in Uganda’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 820455939RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.