Somali Hope Academy Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 848191060RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($213,575) as filed with the CRA.
Somali Hope Academy Foundation is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $249K in revenue and $214K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 83% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $109K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $90K in 2020 to $249K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Fundraising activities to sustain school functions
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $249K | $214K | $188K | $25K | — | $70K |
| 2023 | $274K | $304K | $251K | $35K | — | $35K |
| 2022 | $213K | $256K | $213K | — | — | $65K |
| 2021 | $205K | $117K | $111K | — | — | $108K |
| 2020 | $90K | $90K | $90K | — | — | $22K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $109K from 8 charities:
- Human Concern International (hci)$70K
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$25K
- Trinity United Reformed Church of St. Catharines$4,858
- Assunnah Muslims Association$3,000
- The Young-Nak Korean Presbyterian Church of Toronto$3,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$19
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,99912 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$69K
Schedule 3 of its 2020 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Abdirizak Abdi (treasurer); Olivia Genders (secretary); Fatima Said (vice president); Ibrahim Hussein (director); Paul Burnett (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Somali Hope Academy Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 848191060RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.