Humanity First
Charitable organization · Concord, Ontario · BN 872541040RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,468,819) as filed with the CRA.
Humanity First is a charitable organization based in Concord, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.9M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 82% from donations, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $965K.
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 69% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $6.2M in 2020 to $3.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Humanitarian relief work in Canada and around the world. Assist victims of natural disasters including flood famines earthquakes illness or any other misfortune of life. Help relieve poverty and deprivation that may exist any where in the world. Help hungry through food bank and feed a family program. Assist senior citizens. Working on various international project including Senegal hospital and Ivory Coast Hospital. Actively involve in sponsoring displaced refugees and their settlement in Canada from various countries. Alleviate the homelessness issue through Feed the Homeless program. …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.9M | $4.5M | $4.2M | — | — | $11.6M |
| 2023 | $5.6M | $4.5M | $4.2M | — | — | $12M |
| 2022 | $5.6M | $5M | $4.9M | $4,403 | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $5.1M | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | $10.3M |
| 2020 | $6.2M | $4M | $3.9M | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $965K from 18 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$258K
- Canadahelps Canadon$258K
- Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama'at Canada Inc.$200K
- True Patriot Love Foundation$75K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$60K
- J.P. Bickell Foundation$60K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$34K
- Lajna Imaillah Canada$10K
- David McAntony Gibson Foundation$3,076
- Rotary Club of Ottawa Charity Fund$3,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,500
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$570
- United Way of Greater Toronto$324
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$308
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$250
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$104
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$86
- United Way of Saskatoon and Area$85
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$66K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Syed Daud (chairman); Ejaz Khan (director); Nadeem Mahmood (treasure); Karim Aziz (director); Naumana Khan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Humanity First’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 872541040RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.