Bruce House
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 134127166RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($863,965) as filed with the CRA.
Bruce House 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $904K in revenue and $864K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 53% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $143K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Bruce house is a community-based organization providing housing compassionate care and support in ottawa for people living with hiv/aids believing that everyone has the right to live and die with dignity.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $904K | $864K | $724K | $3,648 | — | $191K |
| 2023 | $857K | $856K | $777K | $3,579 | — | $152K |
| 2022 | $920K | $936K | $857K | $8,410 | — | $150K |
| 2021 | $870K | $865K | $789K | $8,278 | — | $166K |
| 2020 | $792K | $727K | $635K | $24K | — | $161K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $143K from 12 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- Canadahelps Canadon$40K
- The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation$30K
- The Sprott Foundation$15K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$8,774
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,821
- The Harry P Ward Foundation/la Fondation Harry P Ward$2,500
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$661
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$90
- Soeurs de l'Institut Jeanne d'Arc—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$430K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joan Desautels (treasurer); Jennifer McAndrew (secretary); Nodumo Nyathi (director); Alice Moraine (vice-chair); Sa'Ad Hassan (director); Gord Asmus (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bruce House’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 134127166RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.