Hopespring Cancer Support Centre
Charitable organization · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 898943857RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($363,944) as filed with the CRA.
Hopespring Cancer Support Centre is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $296K in revenue and $364K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 7% from government, 57% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $165K.
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 23% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $451K in 2020 to $296K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $296K | $364K | $261K | — | — | $293K |
| 2023 | $233K | $288K | $224K | — | — | $361K |
| 2022 | $209K | $279K | $214K | — | — | $417K |
| 2021 | $274K | $211K | $154K | — | — | $487K |
| 2020 | $451K | $345K | $235K | $88K | — | $424K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $165K from 17 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$39K
- Canadahelps Canadon$39K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$31K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$29K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,025
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- The George Lunan Foundation$5,000
- Zonta Club of Kitchener-Waterloo Charitable Foundation$2,400
- The Gordon Linkletter Family Fund$2,000
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$2,000
- Christy's Legacy Foundation$1,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$772
- Christy's Legacy Foundation$750
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$585
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- Allen-Bradley Employees' Charitable Fund$106
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$161K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gloria Shoon (director); Aisling Dennett (director); Shawn Hlowatzki (president); Wendy Lague (treasurer); Jennifer Markovic (governance & it); Atinuke Olajide (director); Jennifer White (director at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hopespring Cancer Support Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898943857RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.