Hands For Charity
Charitable organization · Pierrefonds, Quebec · BN 719253122RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,560,333) as filed with the CRA.
Hands For Charity is a charitable organization based in Pierrefonds, Quebec, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $10M in revenue and $8.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from donations, 16% from other charities. In 2024, 25 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
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 70% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $267K in 2024, the largest being $181K to Muslim Association of Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $516K in 2021 to $10M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
International Programs: Emergency Relief for refugees and IDPs Winter kit distributions Food distributions Cash assistance to orphans Providing shelters for displaced families and Udhiya/Qurbani. Water and Sanitation – increase access to clean potable water through the rehabilitation of wells the drilling of new boreholes and the installation of additional taps throughout communities. Domestic programs - food distributions.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10M | $8.6M | $7.7M | $429K | $267K | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $4M | $3.7M | $137K | $148K | -$713K |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1M | $760K | $207K | $20K | $312K |
| 2021 | $516K | $487K | $411K | $4,932 | $46K | $157K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $267K to 10 qualified donees:
- Muslim Association of Canada$181K
- Human Concern International (hci)$29K
- Sadagaat-Canada$25K
- Association le Savoir$10K
- Dar Foundation$7,000
- Centre Islamique Badr$5,050
- Anatolia Islamic Centre$5,000
- FORUM DES MUSULMANS CANADIENS (FMC-CMF)/ Canadian Muslim Forum(FMC-CMF)$2,000
- London Muslim Mosque$1,700
- Amal-Center for Women$1,050
Received $1.4M from 25 charities:
- Muslim Association of Canada$545K
- The Windsor Islamic Association (w.i.a.)$150K
- Dar Foundation$80K
- Mosquee Makkah-Al-Mukkaramah$75K
- Association des Sciences Islamiques au Canada (A.S.I.C.)$74K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$72K
- Al-Hijra Mosque$58K
- E-Islam Center of the South Shore$56K
- Muslims for Engagement and Spirituality in Canada (MESC)$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$36K
- Canadahelps Canadon$36K
- Muslim Association of Calgary (mac)$24K
- Mosquée et Centre Culturel pour l'éducation islamique des Musulmans Sunnites/Jamia Islamia Ehl-E Sunnat Wal Jamaat$21K
- Masjid-E Farooq-E Azam Mississauga$18K
- Centre culturel Vimont-Auteuil$16K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$15K
- Muslim Community Foundation of Calgary$15K
- Jamiyyatu Falahi Al-Muslimin$12K
- London Muslim Mosque$11K
- Islamic Information Society of Calgary$10K
- Bosnian Islamic Centre$5,000
- Islamic Relief - Ir Canada$3,634
- Islamic Relief - Ir Canada$3,000
- Myriad Canada Foundation$2,702
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$357K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ahmad Hashem (board member); Safia El Awad Ahmed (board member); Mohamed Yousri Mahmoud (board member); Ibrahim Mohamed (vice president); Ghufran Mahboob (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hands For Charity’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 719253122RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.