Hope for the Nations
Charitable organization · Kelowna, British Columbia · BN 898759931RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,984,517) as filed with the CRA.
Hope for the Nations is a charitable organization based in Kelowna, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $3M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 40% from donations, 5% from government, 54% from other charities. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $88K.
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 53% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 95% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $485K to Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society.
In its own words
To support children at risk due to war poverty illiteracy and child trafficking in developing countries through community-based care education and enterprise development with partnerships to: I. Operate homes/foster homes for children in developing countries currently 76 homes in 10 countries; ii. Operate schools for children in developing countries currently 18 schools in 8 countries; iii. Develop micro enterprise projects to support children families and projects in developing countries; iv. Support community development projects in developing countries including feeding programs …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $3M | $1.5M | $1,128 | $1.1M | — |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $2M | $1.6M | $25K | $807 | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $1.9M | $19K | $1,446 | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.1M | $1.8M | $13K | $11K | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.7M | $13K | $18K | $750K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 11 qualified donees:
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Society$485K
- Multi-nation Missions Foundation$164K
- Leaderbuilder Charitable Foundation$139K
- Myriad Canada Foundation$113K
- Najenga Hope Society$59K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$50K
- The Great Commission Foundation$47K
- Into All the World Inc.$45K
- Mamas for Mamas$2,500
- International Christian Mission Services$510
- Victory Churches International Inc.$88
Received $88K from 13 charities:
- Breakfast Club of Canada$26K
- Munday-Maxwell & Gaylene-Association$20K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$15K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$13K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$3,500
- Abundance Canada$2,600
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,000
- Kelowna Harvest Ministries International$1,884
- Tenth Avenue Alliance Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance$1,500
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,098
- World-Wide Ministries Inc.$800
- The Way Christian Fellowship Inc.$500
- Central Okanagan United Church—
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$299K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hope for the Nations’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898759931RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.