Humanity First
Charitable organizationOrganizations relieving poverty·40 - 600 BOWES RD · CONCORD, ON · L4K 4A3·BN 872541040RR0001·website ↗
Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-12-31
Cents to cause T1
93¢
of each dollar spent, to programs
Operating overhead T1
7%
typical range 5–35%
Reserves T1
2.4 yr
of program spending, in cash and investments
Revenue T1
$3.9M
Charity Intelligence ★★★ · T2
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Common questions
How do I donate to Humanity First?
You can search for it on CanadaHelps or give directly through its own website. Charity Compass never handles your money — we only link out to where you can give.
Is Humanity First a registered charity?
Per CRA records, it filed a F2024 T3010 return under charity number 872541040RR0001. Registration status can change, so check the CRA charities listing for its current status. Only a currently registered charity can issue an official donation receipt.
Where is Humanity First located?
Per its F2024 T3010, its address on file is 40 - 600 BOWES RD, CONCORD, ON, L4K 4A3. Source.
What does Humanity First do?
In its own words, from its F2024 T3010 filing: "Humanitarian relief work in Canada and around the world. Assist victims of natural disasters including flood famines earthquakes illness or any other misfortune of life. Help relieve poverty and deprivation that may exist any where in the world. Help hungry through food bank and feed a family program. Assist…" Full program description.
How much of Humanity First's spending goes to programs?T1
Per its F2024 T3010, 93¢ of each dollar it spent went to programs (self-reported, not independently verified). Full figures.
How big is Humanity First?T1
Its last-reported revenue was $3.9M (F2024), which places it in Charity Compass's $1M–$10M revenue band, alongside 9,072 other operating charities.
What it does — in its own words
Ongoing programs
Humanitarian relief work in Canada and around the world. Assist victims of natural disasters including flood famines earthquakes illness or any other misfortune of life. Help relieve poverty and deprivation that may exist any where in the world. Help hungry through food bank and feed a family program. Assist senior citizens. Working on various international project including Senegal hospital and Ivory Coast Hospital. Actively involve in sponsoring displaced refugees and their settlement in Canada from various countries. Alleviate the homelessness issue through Feed the Homeless program. … Show more
Humanitarian relief work in Canada and around the world. Assist victims of natural disasters including flood famines earthquakes illness or any other misfortune of life. Help relieve poverty and deprivation that may exist any where in the world. Help hungry through food bank and feed a family program. Assist senior citizens. Working on various international project including Senegal hospital and Ivory Coast Hospital. Actively involve in sponsoring displaced refugees and their settlement in Canada from various countries. Alleviate the homelessness issue through Feed the Homeless program. Humanity First undertakes focused and results-oriented development programs that promote and seek to build stronger communities in which individuals are engaged and in-tuned in helping those in need through responsible caring and skilled volunteers. The organization’s mission has following four themes to serve ordinary Canadians and humanity in-general: 1. Poverty Reduction: Enhance economic potential of individuals and families by bridging the gap between poverty and prosperity. 2. Disaster Relief: Relieve human suffering caused by natural disasters or human conflicts by providing urgent short and long term assistance to alleviate suffering. 3. Education and Training: Eradicate poverty and homelessness by promoting and providing education and skill building training to underprivileged Canadians. In addition assist individuals through the establishment of business ventures and small industries to get back on their feet. 4. Canada Cares: Become flag-bearers of Canada and promote essential Canadian values of unity brotherhood and generosity without regards to race religion or ethnicity across the globe and showcase Canada’s commitment to humanity.
New programs
Humanity First is building a primary school in Cameroon and also started small project in Burundi (food security Orphan care) Humanity First Canada with the partnership of Humanity First UK is also building hospital in Ivory Cost. The hospital project will be completed in 2026. Humanity First is also building housing project in Burkina Faso for internally displaced persons.
Program descriptions from its F2024 T3010 filing, verbatim · self-reported · this is also the text our semantic search matches against. source ↗
Tier 1 — what we computed (open data)
From the charity's own F2024 T3010 filing. Self-reported; not independently verified. You can recompute every figure. New to these terms? Read what cents to the cause, overhead and reserves mean.
93¢
Per its F2024 T3010, 93¢ of each dollar spent went to programs. The rest ran the organization and raised money; higher is not automatically better.
Sector median: 89¢ across 55,155 computed charities; 87¢ among those its size ($1M–$10M).
this charity 93¢ · sector median 89¢ · all 55,155 computed charities
T3010 line 5000 ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
7%
Management, administration, and fundraising as a share of total spending. We treat 5–35% as the typical range; we state the figure, you judge.
T3010 line (5010 + 5020) ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
2.4 yr
Years that cash, bank balances and investments on hand could cover program spending; liabilities and restricted funds are not netted out.
Charities its size ($1M–$10M, 9,072): median 0.5 yr; 43% hold under half a year. All operating charities: median 0.8 yr.
T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
Total revenue
T1 · computed (open data)$3.9M
Last-reported total revenue.
T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Donor-funded
T1 · computed (open data)82%
Share of revenue from receipted donations.
T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
1%
Share of revenue from federal, provincial, and municipal sources.
T3010 line 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗ · what this means
Where the money comes from
Shares of last-reported revenue, per its F2024 T3010. Self-reported; not independently verified.
Receipted donationsT1
82%
T3010 4500 ÷ 4700
GovernmentT1
1%
T3010 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700
Other revenueT1
17%
T3010 remainder ÷ 4700
Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗
Over the years
Every figure as filed at each fiscal period end, 2019–2024.
| Period end | Revenue | Cents to cause | Overhead | Reserves |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-12-31 | $3.8M | 94¢ | 6% | 1.9 yr |
| 2020-12-31 | $6.2M | 96¢ | 4% | 1.7 yr |
| 2021-12-31 | $5.1M | 95¢ | 5% | 1.8 yr |
| 2022-12-31 | $5.6M | 97¢ | 3% | 0.2 yr |
| 2023-12-31 | $5.6M | 94¢ | 6% | 2.4 yr |
| 2024-12-31 | $3.9M | 93¢ | 7% | 2.4 yr |
| trend |
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From its T3010 filings (CRA annual releases) · self-reported, not audited by us · when a period is restated in a later release, the newest figures are shown · ✱ = cents-to-cause outside the valid 0–100% range (filing error; not used in rankings). source ↗
★ Tier 2 — Charity Intelligence (analyst-reviewed)
Published ratings by Charity Intelligence Canada's analysts — a separate, human review. Shown as published, never blended into our computed figures.
Overall rating
★ T2 · Charity Intelligence★★★
Charity Intelligence's 0–5 star overall rating.
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Results reporting
★ T2 · Charity Intelligence—
Not reported in this filing: the return leaves out the lines this figure needs, so we show nothing rather than an estimate.
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Demonstrated impact
★ T2 · Charity IntelligenceGood
Charity Intelligence's assessment of impact per dollar.
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Board of directors
5 directors reported · 5 of 5at arm's length
- DAUD, SYED MACHAIRMANarm's length
- KHAN, EJAZ ADIRECTORarm's length
- MAHMOOD, NADEEMTREASUREarm's length
- AZIZ, KARIMDIRECTORarm's length
- KHAN, NAUMANADIRECTORarm's length
From its F2024T3010 filing (public CRA record), as filed. “Arm's length” means not related to other officials by family or business ties. source ↗
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