Head & Hands
Charitable organization · Montreal, Quebec · BN 131454415RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,584,080) as filed with the CRA.
Head & Hands is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from government, 56% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $798K.
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 72% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 25 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
La maison de l'organisme est de fournir aux jeunes les outils dont ils ont besoin pour prendre des décisions éclairées concernant leur bien-être physique et mental.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | $520K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.1M | $65K | $5,000 | $705K |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.6M | $1M | $49K | — | $677K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $996K | $186K | — | $294K |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $236K | $86K | $5,000 | $220K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $798K from 18 charities:
- Pathy Family Foundation$250K
- Centraide Du Grand Montréal$143K
- The Molson Foundation/fondation Molson$100K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$90K
- Canadahelps Canadon$39K
- Canadahelps Canadon$39K
- The George Hogg Family Foundation$25K
- Barry F. Lorenzetti Foundation$21K
- Fondation Écho /echo Foundation$20K
- Community Foundations of Canada$19K
- The Holt Foundation$15K
- The Foundation of Greater Montreal$15K
- Hylcan Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,174
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$928
- Howick Foundation /fondation Howick$600
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$326
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
- $40,000–79,99917 positions
- $1–39,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions25
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allyson Flynn (co-director); Alex Francavilla (director); Sonia Israel (director); Nabeela Jivraj (president); Jessica Legault (director); Omar Mustafa (director); Helen Ogundeji (vice-president); Kenneth Richardson (treasurer); Tasha Zamudio (rep des employé.e.s).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Head & Hands’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131454415RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.