Britannia Woods Community House Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 859656415RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,276,793) as filed with the CRA.
Britannia Woods Community House Inc. is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from donations, 60% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $211K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $2.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
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Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $2.3M | $2.2M | — | — | $361K |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | $360K |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.5M | — | — | $324K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.7M | — | — | $210K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1M | $983K | — | — | $156K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $211K from 9 charities:
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$92K
- Rotary Club of Nepean-Kanata Service Fund$42K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$37K
- The D.H. Gordon Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$7,665
- OSEG Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board$511
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$292
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,99913 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tricia Ross (chair); Lawrence James John Hill (secretary); Safaa Habach (vice chair); Nadir Nur (treasurer); Trisha Banks-Wenwright (director); Emmanuel Clersaint (director); Muriel Nishimwe (director); Mohamed Sofa (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Britannia Woods Community House Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859656415RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.