House of Omeed
Charitable organization · Port Moody, British Columbia · BN 725332712RR0001 · Support of Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($568,226) as filed with the CRA.
House of Omeed is a charitable organization based in Port Moody, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $867K in revenue and $568K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 80% from other charities. In 2024, 39 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $875K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $44K in 2020 to $867K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
House of Omeed provides support services and education to newcomers of Canada and immigrants in need particularly Farsi-speakers. We operate a food refuge program to provide newcomers with food and essential items. We provide ESL classes first-aid courses food safe courses music lessons assistance in navigating government systems and paperwork resume-writing job searching and a community income tax clinic. We also have a community Persian library Persian outreach program and conduct publicly-available prayer meetings on evenings and weekends. House of Omeed also sponsors missionary w…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $867K | $568K | $479K | $4,673 | — | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $842K | $495K | $441K | $1,266 | — | $896K |
| 2022 | $586K | $370K | $321K | $150 | — | $549K |
| 2021 | $675K | $369K | $191K | $490 | — | $333K |
| 2020 | $44K | $18K | $15K | — | $0 | $26K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $875K from 39 charities:
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$239K
- Willingdon Church$113K
- Abundance Canada$100K
- Coquitlam Alliance Church$95K
- Canadahelps Canadon$64K
- Canadahelps Canadon$64K
- Food Banks British Columbia$29K
- Baptist General Conference of Canada$26K
- Messianic Vision Canada$23K
- Arrowsmith Baptist Church$15K
- Calvary Baptist Church$10K
- Hillsdale Baptist Church$10K
- Westwood Community Church$8,000
- Grant Memorial Baptist Church Inc$7,897
- Cedar Grove Baptist Church$7,220
- Ellerslie Road Baptist Church Society$6,600
- Entwistle Community Church$6,514
- Ebenezer Baptist Church Inc.$5,816
- Lansdowne Community Baptist Church$5,500
- New Life Community Church$4,700
- Port Moody Pacific Grace MB Church$4,320
- Village Church BC Society$4,000
- Coquitlam Presbyterian Church$3,500
- Blue Mountain Baptist Church$2,500
- Bethel Baptist Church$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$200K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ahmad Zeividavi (director and president); Michael Deepwell (treasurer); Farshad Nikjou (director); Randy Hoffman (director); Kevin Schular (director); Danley Shackelford (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from House of Omeed’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 725332712RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.