The Sufi Garden Institute
Charitable organization · Cheneville, Quebec · BN 818021594RR0001 · Islam · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($802,157) as filed with the CRA.
The Sufi Garden Institute is a charitable organization based in Cheneville, Quebec, classified by the CRA under islam. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $655K in revenue and $802K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 12% from government. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $8,958.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 27% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Daily prayer and friday prayer services - spiritual counselling sessions for individuals who can not afford payments - healthy spiritual paradigm-forming weekly classes ramdan program eid prayers approx 20 volunteers providing a varying amount of hours to support the above ranging from 3 to 20 hours per week per volunteer
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $655K | $802K | $568K | $22K | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $537K | $530K | $494K | $18K | — | $1.5M |
| 2022 | $549K | $449K | $380K | $15K | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $583K | $365K | $270K | $38K | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $845K | $501K | $340K | $87K | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $8,958 from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$388K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Hidayet Abbad (board member); Mehdi Hassan (board member); Shalini Ahuja (director); Moaz Choudhury (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sufi Garden Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 818021594RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.