Hope House Guelph
Charitable organization · Guelph, Ontario · BN 827120908RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,702,022) as filed with the CRA.
Hope House Guelph is a charitable organization based in Guelph, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 57% from donations, 27% from other charities. In 2024, 40 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $896K.
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 33% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Hope house provides poverty alleviation through various programs over the year including: cafe clothing market counselling meal preparation food market food skill development hair salon community garden system navigation support services income tax program employment skills development affordable gift market dental support horticultural therapy a guelph community backpack project and distribution of surplus items to other poverty alleviation organizations in the area we also have a partnership with an organization (eggpreneur) in kenya to support low income women to generate rev…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.4M | $59K | — | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $59K | $7,500 | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1M | $91K | — | $1.4M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $1M | $34K | $8,000 | $921K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $867K | $702K | $60K | $96K | $432K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $896K from 40 charities:
- The Angel Gabriel Foundation$250K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$174K
- Right To Food$125K
- Canadahelps Canadon$56K
- Canadahelps Canadon$56K
- United Way Community Services of Guelph and Wellington$56K
- The Guelph Community Foundation$29K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$15K
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$12K
- Lakeside Bible Church$10K
- Right To Food$10K
- Gordon & Ruth Gooder Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Colwyn and Jean Rich Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$9,863
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,203
- Terence & Svea McKillen Foundation$6,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,924
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$5,833
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,000
- Global Kingdom Ministries Church Inc.$4,410
- Vancouver Foundation$4,050
- Williams Wilson Sherport Foundation$4,000
- Abundance Canada$3,750
- Living Word Canadian Reformed Church$2,500
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$789K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dustin Cleghorn (treasurer); Elizabeth O'Donnell (secretary); Marian Boyd (director); Kim Robinson (chairperson); Babajide Ayodeji Atilola (director); Danielle Sanagan (vice chair); Yvette Prince (director); Eman Rafaeh (director); Yinan LI (director); Dhruv Shah (director (volunteer)).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hope House Guelph’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 827120908RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.