HopeTowns Community Ventures
Charitable organization · Port Hope, Ontario · BN 749569133RR0001 · Public Amenities
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($437,837) as filed with the CRA.
HopeTowns Community Ventures is a charitable organization based in Port Hope, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $438K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $214K.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $11K in 2021 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
To enhance the economic environmental social and cultural health of small communities through the integration of regenerative agriculture hospitality and the arts. It will accomplish this by investing in the restoration of small town main streets and the regeneration of surrounding agricultural lands. It will support this activity through community engagement employment and education initiatives that are aligned with its mission.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $438K | $352K | $1,049 | — | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $519K | $372K | $292K | $48K | — | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $307K | $265K | $15K | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $11K | $12K | $12K | — | — | -$86K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $214K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shelley Ambrose (director); Roger Garland (director); Sam Marinucci (director); Alexandra Brown (director); Eleanor Shen (director); Alison Jackson (director); John Lounds (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from HopeTowns Community Ventures’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 749569133RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.