L'Assemblée Spirituelle Nationale des Baha'is du Canada
Charitable organization · Thornhill, Ontario · BN 119051944RR0001 · Other Religions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($8,344,537) as filed with the CRA.
L'Assemblée Spirituelle Nationale des Baha'is du Canada is a charitable organization based in Thornhill, Ontario, classified by the CRA under other religions. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $22.7M in revenue and $8.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 135 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7.1M.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 35 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Activities designed to promote and protect the teachings of the baha'I faith throughout canada and to collaborate with other baha'I institutions in canada and abroad on similar projects. Activities include supplying pioneers and travel teachers throughout canada and arranging conferences conventions and seminars to promote the teachings of the baha'I faith. Producing and supplying literature and audio-visual materials to promote the faith. Support for the maintenance of the baha'I house of worship in wilmette illinois usa
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $22.7M | $8.3M | $6.7M | — | — | $130.8M |
| 2023 | $24.1M | $7.9M | $5.7M | — | — | $108.7M |
| 2022 | $25.7M | $8.1M | $6.9M | — | — | $92.5M |
| 2021 | $35.7M | $6.6M | $5.8M | — | — | $74.9M |
| 2020 | $18M | $10.2M | $8.6M | — | $300K | $45.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $7.1M from 135 charities:
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Vancouver$603K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Ottawa/l'assemblee Spirituelle des Baha'is d'Ottawa$485K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Toronto$484K
- Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Oakville$430K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Hamilton$378K
- Local Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Calgary Alberta$231K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Sault Ste Marie$217K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Richmond Hill$216K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Oshawa$208K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of West Vancouver$197K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of North Vancouver District$171K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Port Moody$165K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Vaughan$150K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of ST Albert$147K
- Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Victoria$146K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Coquitlam$138K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Richmond$125K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Markham$124K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Bahais of London$103K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Kitchener$97K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Abbotsford$96K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Burnaby$94K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Oak Bay$90K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of Nanaimo$88K
- The Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of North Vancouver$88K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions35
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mehran Anvari (director); Karen McKye (director); Judith Filson (director); Hoda Farahmandpour (director); Jauca Ciprian (directo); Zelalem Bimrew Kasse (director); Gerald Filson (director); Alex Arjomand; Jordan Bighorn.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from L'Assemblée Spirituelle Nationale des Baha'is du Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119051944RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.