Helping with Furniture
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 824500615RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($212,433) as filed with the CRA.
Helping with Furniture is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $216K in revenue and $212K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 34% from government, 32% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $86K.
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 40% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 91% of that peer group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $112K in 2020 to $216K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Helping with furniture (hwf) appeals for and collects new and good quality used furniture household furnishings and bikes from residents and furniture stores in the ottawa area. These items are then distributed to individuals and families who have been internationally or domestically displaced due to situations of hardship and who lack the means to buy these items. Hwf aims to assist in furnishing homes to a level of modest canadian standards without cost to the canadian taxpayer. To accomplish this hwf identifies donors arranges and schedules vehicles and volunteers for the pickup and del…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $216K | $212K | $178K | $17K | — | $296K |
| 2023 | $360K | $299K | $268K | $14K | — | $293K |
| 2022 | $233K | $156K | $142K | $5,524 | — | $230K |
| 2021 | $161K | $134K | $124K | — | — | $153K |
| 2020 | $112K | $86K | $80K | — | — | $125K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $86K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nathalie Maione (president); Richard Martin (director); Priyanka Bagaria (director); Matthew Estabrooks (director); Sabrina Leblanc (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Helping with Furniture’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824500615RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.