Islamic Family and Social Services Association (ifssa)
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 873835193RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,450,475) as filed with the CRA.
Islamic Family and Social Services Association (ifssa) is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $3.8M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 43% from government. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $484K.
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 81% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2M in 2020 to $3.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Islamic family and social services association (the 'association' or 'ifssa') is an edmonton alberta based not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing services in response to the social needs of the edmonton community within an islamic context. Ifssa operates a food and clothing bank provides domestic violence outreach & counselling services and youth development services for its clients. Its mandate is to achieve healthy muslim families and communities based upon meeting the basic physical and emotional needs of the community it services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $4.5M | $4.3M | $3,872 | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $3.6M | $3.4M | $1,066 | — | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $2.3M | $2.2M | $1,304 | — | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $356 | — | $1.9M |
| 2020 | $2M | $1.5M | $1.4M | $95 | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $484K from 18 charities:
- The Northpine Foundation$150K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$65K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$38K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$25K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$25K
- Muslim Association of Canada$25K
- Southwest Muslim Community Centre$11K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$10K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$5,000
- Mazon Canada$3,500
- Beatrice Stevens Memorial Foundation Inc.$3,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1,760
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$200
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$194
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$170
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$2.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Youssra Badr; Shaista Ali (president); Howaida Hassan; Mariam Osman (secretary); Amaly Rahman (secretary); Ahsan Tanveer (treasurer); Nazneem Wahab; Ibrahim Babikir (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Islamic Family and Social Services Association (ifssa)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 873835193RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.