Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto
Charitable organization · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 107516171RR0001 · Islam · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,963,574) as filed with the CRA.
Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto is a charitable organization based in Thornhill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under islam. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $11.8M in revenue and $11M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $811K.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 28% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 29 qualified donees totalling $1.9M in 2024, the largest being $380K to International Development and Relief Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.7M in 2020 to $11.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Religious congregations and operations of religious centres for children out of cold and outreach programs and poverty relief both in canada and overseas.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.8M | $11M | $6.9M | $0 | $1.9M | $21.5M |
| 2023 | $12.3M | $11.9M | $7M | — | $2.9M | $20.6M |
| 2022 | $9.6M | $8.8M | $5.5M | — | $1.8M | $20.2M |
| 2021 | $8.7M | $6.7M | $4.4M | — | $1.2M | $19.4M |
| 2020 | $7.7M | $5.8M | $4M | — | $740K | $17.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.9M to 29 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- International Development and Relief Foundation$380K
- IMAMIA Association of Regina Inc.$231K
- Reaching Out to Zanzibar International Development Organization$125K
- Islamic Relief - Ir Canada$122K
- Islamic Humanitarian Service$119K
- As-Sadiq Islamic Schools$116K
- Selm Academy$100K
- The Zahra(s) Trust Canada$85K
- CareAidAfrica Foundation$73K
- Sajjadiyya Trust$70K
- SMILE Canada- Support Services$50K
- Mackenzie Health Foundation$50K
- Global Kindness Foundation$50K
- The AIIMMA Foundation$45K
- Sakeenah Canada$35K
- Al-Kawthar Foundation$30K
- Imam-E-Zamana Center$30K
- Doctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins Sans Frontieresca Nada$30K
- Child Aid International Development Society$25K
- Nisa Foundation$25K
- Hope Foundation$16K
- North American Shia Ithna - Asheri Muslim Communities Organization$15K
- Pinball Foundation$15K
- The Foundation of Light$12K
- Almehdi Almuntathar Union$12K
Received $811K from 15 charities:
- M.P. Charitable Foundation$419K
- Moez & Marissa Kassam Foundation$123K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$77K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$35K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$34K
- Child Aid International Development Society$30K
- The Shining Star Foundation$26K
- North American Shia Ithna - Asheri Muslim Communities Organization$24K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$21K
- Sajjadiyya Trust$8,623
- Sef Foundation$7,000
- Reaching Out to Zanzibar International Development Organization$2,887
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- The Foundation of Light$1,364
- Abundance Canada$850
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
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rizwan Khalfan (president); Mazahair Dhirani (vice president); Rizwan Merchant (hon secretary); Amin Kermali (hon treasurer); Jamila Jaffer (director); Mohamed Kumail Kassam (director); Mehboob Siwjee (director); Shabnees Siwjee (director); Maisam-Raheem Janmohamed (director); Zehra Dilawar (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107516171RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.