Islamic Relief - Ir Canada
Charitable organization · Burlington, Ontario · BN 821896875RR0001 · Protective Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($127,929,890) as filed with the CRA.
Islamic Relief - Ir Canada is a charitable organization based in Burlington, Ontario, classified by the CRA under protective health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $125.9M in revenue and $127.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 72% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 103 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7.4M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 90% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 130 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 136 qualified donees totalling $12.4M in 2024, the largest being $815K to Markaz-Ul-Islam Congregation of Fort McMurray. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $63M in 2020 to $125.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Islamic Relief Canada carries out humanitarian and development programs in over 30 countries. Programs include: • Livelihoods focused on climate-adaptive support and/or economic empowerment; • Health including water sanitation and hygiene activities primary health care services and in some cases secondary and tertiary services or referrals; • Food and nutrition focused on access to adequate and nutritious food through cash programming gardening and food distributions including through seasonal programs (e.g. food packs during Ramadan meat packets during Qurbani and Aqeeqah) as well as …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $125.9M | $127.9M | $110.1M | $4.8M | $12.4M | $20.5M |
| 2023 | $109.2M | $102.7M | $87.6M | $11.8M | $8.7M | $22.6M |
| 2022 | $81.3M | $88M | $74.2M | $10.6M | $6.9M | $16M |
| 2021 | $71M | $64.6M | $49.7M | $7.7M | $4M | $22.6M |
| 2020 | $63M | $59.7M | $50.4M | $4.7M | $2.2M | $16.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $12.4M to 136 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Markaz-Ul-Islam Congregation of Fort McMurray$815K
- Union of Medical Care and Relief Organizations-Canada$770K
- Islamic Society of North America$725K
- Yaqeen Institute for Islamic Research Canada$647K
- Halton Islamic Association$614K
- Canada-Palestine Cultural Association$593K
- The Canadian-Muslim Vote$458K
- Manitoba Islamic Association Inc.$451K
- Risalah Foundation$392K
- Muslim Youth & Community Centre Society$345K
- Centre culturel islamique de Québec$324K
- Arabian Muslim Association$309K
- Fleetwood Islamic Academy Society$299K
- Muslim Association of Calgary (mac)$275K
- National Zakat Foundation$230K
- Downtown Islamic Association$228K
- Unrwa USA$211K
- Seeds of Leadership$200K
- Naseeha Youth Helpline$198K
- Salaheddin Islamic Centre Inc$184K
- Kamloops Islamic Association$165K
- Masjid Al-Fatima Tuz Zahra (SA) and Shah Sufi Congregation Centre$157K
- Markaz-Ul-Islam Society of Edmonton$155K
- Humanitarian Coalition / Coalition Humanitaire$134K
- Dar Foundation$133K
Received $7.4M from 103 charities:
- Humanitarian Coalition / Coalition Humanitaire$1.6M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1.2M
- Myriad Canada Foundation$986K
- Canadahelps Canadon$451K
- Canadahelps Canadon$451K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$207K
- London Muslim Mosque$168K
- Scarborough Muslim Association$165K
- Arabian Muslim Association$160K
- Life for Relief & Development (canada)$140K
- Markaz-Ul-Islam Congregation of Fort McMurray$134K
- Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto$122K
- Manitoba Islamic Association Inc.$116K
- North American Shia Ithna - Asheri Muslim Communities Organization$106K
- Islamic Society of North America$100K
- Islamic Society of Markham$100K
- Aqueduct Foundation$90K
- Muslim Association of Canada$75K
- Muslim Association of Calgary (mac)$72K
- The Mosque of Aylmer$55K
- Human Concern International (hci)$50K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$50K
- Pickering Islamic Centre$48K
- Toronto and Region Islamic Congregation (taric)$34K
- Edmonton Islamic School Society$33K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions130
- Total compensation, all staff$8.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Attia El-Tantawy (director); Hany Soliman (treasurer); Ebad Rahman (chairman/president); Aarif Pathan (director); Afnan Attia (secretary); Naseem Mithoowani (director); Sarrah Lawendy (director); Sabiha Kasmani (director); Sharif Aly (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Islamic Relief - Ir Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 821896875RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.