Centre Youville Centre Ottawa-Carleton Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118848456RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,653,392) as filed with the CRA.
Centre Youville Centre Ottawa-Carleton 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $3.2M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 65% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $250K.
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 53% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 75% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 41 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Located in ottawa youville centre is a non-profit registered charity that serves adolescent mothers and their children. Youville's trauma-informed holistic programs and services include: crisis intervention intensive mental health therapy and treatment addiction counselling collaborative problem solving a liscensed child development program with a focus on infant mental health attachment-based parenting programs with intervention and treatment and a fully accredited secondary school. For more than a quarter century youville centre has been an innovative centre that insp…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $2.7M | $2.4M | $13K | — | $4M |
| 2023 | $2.8M | $2.7M | $2.5M | $9,462 | — | $3.4M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.5M | $2.1M | $17K | — | $3.3M |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $2.3M | $2M | $43K | — | $3.2M |
| 2020 | $2.7M | $2.5M | $2.1M | $69K | — | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $250K from 19 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$82K
- Canadahelps Canadon$82K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$53K
- Danbe Foundation Inc.$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,699
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3,000
- The Eastern Ontario & Western Quebec Christmas Cheer Foundation/la Fondation Esprit de Noel de l'Est de l'Ontario et l'Ouest du Québec$2,900
- The George & Susan Neilson Family Foundation$2,600
- Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa)$2,529
- The Calgary Foundation$2,000
- Kelly Family Foundation$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,050
- Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$750
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$400
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$40
- Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc.—
- Sisters of Holy Cross of ST. Joseph's Province—
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
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions41
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lauren Benoit (secretary); Sefanie Bourada (director); Valerie Caterino (treasurer); Neel Chadha (director); Gillian Mann (director); Sarah Niman (director); Rana Pishva (director); Andre Potvin (vice president); Lee Redpath (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre Youville Centre Ottawa-Carleton Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118848456RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.