Shepherds of Good Hope Foundation
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 876017609RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,519,946) as filed with the CRA.
Shepherds of Good Hope Foundation is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.9M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 62% from donations, 25% from other charities. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $453K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $3M in 2024, the largest being $3M to Shepherds of Good Hope. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The foundation raises funds to exclusively support the activties of the shepherds of good hope charity.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.9M | $4.5M | — | $527K | $3M | $5.9M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $3.9M | — | $410K | $2.5M | $6.4M |
| 2022 | $4.6M | $3.6M | — | $370K | $2.4M | $6.6M |
| 2021 | $5M | $3.6M | $2.3M | $445K | $2.3M | $5.7M |
| 2020 | $4M | $5.1M | $4.3M | $345K | $4.3M | $4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $453K from 30 charities:
- The SJ Foundation$200K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$50K
- Eakin Family Foundation$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- The Matt Foundation$20K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$15K
- Five B Family Foundation$15K
- Les Soeurs de la Visitation d' Ottawa$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$8,600
- Labarge Charitable Foundation$8,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,944
- WCPD Foundation$5,500
- The Derick Brenninkmeyer Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,797
- Mount Zion--Church of the Firstborn$3,000
- Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception$2,500
- The Singhal Family Foundation$2,000
- Emmanuel Alliance Church of Ottawa of The Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada$1,500
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$749
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$547
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$427
- Mobile Giving Foundation Canada$400
- United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington$334
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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$629K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ryan Kilger (board member); John Peters (board member); David Rattray (board member); Wendy Hope (board member); Mark Roundell (chair); Carol Pitters (board member); Kaveh Rikhtegar (board member and treasur); Stephanie Montreuil (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Shepherds of Good Hope Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 876017609RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.