Volunteer International Christian Service of the Holy Ghost Fathers
Charitable organization · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 132700857RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($368,231) as filed with the CRA.
Volunteer International Christian Service of the Holy Ghost Fathers is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $180K in revenue and $368K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2,292.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 81% of that peer group. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
We continue to assist canadians in understanding their role in the developing world as we recruit and send out professionally and technically trained canadian women and men volunteers to serve overseas. We receive requests for personnel and development-related projects and work closely with local people serving the marginalized in health education and development. All our work is with the poor and marginalized - most often women and children. We continue community development projects in nicaragua mexico and sierra leone educational support in cameroon nicaragua kenya sierra leone tanz…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $180K | $368K | $348K | $81 | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $54K | $524K | $496K | $74 | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $154K | $498K | $470K | $36 | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $215K | $282K | $260K | $733 | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $197K | $334K | $296K | $2,979 | — | $82K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2,292 from 2 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
- Total compensation, all staff$1,653
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joyce De Gooijer (executive director); Oliver Iwuchukwu (president); Joseph Kelly (director); Alex Osei (vice-president); Obinna Ifeanyi (secretary-treasurer); Roberto Dinardo (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Volunteer International Christian Service of the Holy Ghost Fathers’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132700857RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.