Help Our Students Program
Charitable organization · Orleans, Ontario · BN 814474730RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($328,292) as filed with the CRA.
Help Our Students Program is a charitable organization based in Orleans, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $360K in revenue and $328K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $303K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 78% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $147K in 2020 to $360K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The Help Our Students Program provides financial support to hard-working students living in difficult financial circumstances to help them graduate high school. The Program gives a monthly stipend directly into the student's bank account. The students are selected by school officials. The Board of Directors is a volunteer Board and the Directors pay all administrative expenses.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $360K | $328K | $313K | $10K | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $357K | $301K | $286K | $9,226 | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $277K | $222K | $217K | $4,053 | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $254K | $138K | — | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $147K | $147K | $142K | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $303K from 11 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$128K
- Canadahelps Canadon$128K
- The Matt Foundation$20K
- WCPD Foundation$14K
- The Harold Shenkman Foundation Inc$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall$1,667
- The Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation$1,500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,150
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$768
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$658
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Richard Lussier (president and chairman); Don Stephenson (vice-president); Linda Lussier (secretary); Suzanne Donnelly (director); Michael Van Aanhout (director); Carman Joynt (director); Genevieve Kosavic (director); Susan Prior (director); Chris Carruthers (director); Mohamed Sheibani (director); Peter Nicholson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Help Our Students Program’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 814474730RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.