Light for all Canada
Charitable organization · Oakville, Ontario · BN 805854908RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,060,321) as filed with the CRA.
Light for all Canada is a charitable organization based in Oakville, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $2.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $37K.
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 100% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 96% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $2.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
To relieve poverty by providing basic amenities including food clothing and shelter to orphans worldwide. To provide education counselling and other support services to orphans through programs such as school vouchers group and individual tutoring and post secondary training. To provide a facility worldwide to house mentally challenged children who have been abandoned by their families. To provide social educational medical assistance and financial support to the needy worldwide such as: families in need and individuals such as orphans windows elderly youth ill persons and the h…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.1M | $2M | $2,309 | $2M | $479K |
| 2023 | $2M | $2.2M | $2.2M | $3,032 | — | $288K |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.4M | $1.3M | — | — | $471K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $240K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $916K | $900K | — | — | $239K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $37K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$32K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sameh Sidrak (president); Alfred Tanious (treasurer); Emad Karras (board member); Naguib Elias (board member); Rami Abdel Malek (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Light for all Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 805854908RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.