Nisa Foundation
Charitable organization · Mississauga, Ontario · BN 799310289RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,172,655) as filed with the CRA.
Nisa Foundation is a charitable organization based in Mississauga, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6.1M in revenue and $6.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% from donations, 13% from government, 11% from other charities. In 2024, 36 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 77 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $212K in 2024, the largest being $212K to National Zakat Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $232K in 2020 to $6.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Nisa foundation is a community-based organization that has promoted social and mental wellness for racialize women across canada. The organization provides a toll free peer-to-peer counseling service (12 hours a day 7 days a week) faiclitates educational seminars and provides referrals to resourses such as shelters expert counseling legal advice and financial aid among others. Oprerate transitional houses for women and children in muslim canadian community who are homeless poor of low income and/or victims of domestic abuse and to provide counseling and outreach programs to its residen…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.1M | $6.2M | $4.9M | $885K | $212K | $392K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.2M | $1M | $183K | — | $492K |
| 2022 | $484K | $554K | $427K | $97K | — | $252K |
| 2021 | $667K | $391K | $271K | $79K | — | $355K |
| 2020 | $232K | $155K | $96K | $23K | $500 | $79K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $212K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.1M from 36 charities:
- Human Concern International (hci)$200K
- Surreycares Community Foundation$194K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$140K
- Myriad Canada Foundation$135K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$95K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$78K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$36K
- Canadahelps Canadon$36K
- Islamic Shia Ithna-Asheri Jamaat of Toronto$25K
- Pickering Islamic Centre$23K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$21K
- Myriad Canada Foundation$13K
- Rahma Foundation$11K
- Fraser Valley REALTORS Charitable Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$8,859
- OBAT Canada$7,605
- Kids Up Front Foundation (toronto)$5,052
- Islamic Propagation Centre of Ontario Inc$5,000
- Islamic Information Society of Calgary$5,000
- Toronto and Region Islamic Congregation (taric)$5,000
- Islamic Relief - Ir Canada$5,000
- Brampton and Regional Islamic Centre (BARIC)$4,000
- Association of Progressive Dawoodi Bohras of Ontario$3,390
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions77
- Total compensation, all staff$3.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Faaria Khan (board chair); Sameer Ansary (treasurer); Tanweer Ebrahim (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nisa Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 799310289RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.