Hope Grows Haiti
Publicly funded institution · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 838616753RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($128,892) as filed with the CRA.
Hope Grows Haiti is a charitable organization based in Peterborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $155K in revenue and $129K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from donations, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $119K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $239K in 2020 to $155K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Provide educational needs of orphaned and/or impoverished children in haiti by providing povertery relief food and basic personal needs as well as educational needs through funding of teacher salaries and teaching supplies supplemented with religious training and education. The food program continues for children (ages 3 to 16) at four days a week and provided one meal for 350 children at at time. Help is also extended to widows in old age who have no means of support and have essentially been abandoned. The charity also operates a church wthin its compound. In 2018 construction was complete…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $155K | $129K | $126K | — | — | $75K |
| 2023 | $167K | $221K | $214K | — | — | $49K |
| 2022 | $184K | $222K | $212K | — | — | $103K |
| 2021 | $206K | $160K | $158K | — | — | $140K |
| 2020 | $239K | $152K | $150K | — | — | $93K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $119K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ross Kearney (trustee); Amelia Rodin (trustee); Heather Rodin (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hope Grows Haiti’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 838616753RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.