Children's Village of Ottawa-Carleton
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 118852698RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,071,793) as filed with the CRA.
Children's Village of Ottawa-Carleton 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 $13.5M in revenue and $12.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $500.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 103 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.3M in 2020 to $13.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Licensed home childcare 8 licensed daycare events
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.5M | $12.1M | $11.6M | — | — | $16.4M |
| 2023 | $12.3M | $10.8M | $10.4M | — | — | $14.7M |
| 2022 | $9.2M | $8.6M | $8.3M | — | — | $13.6M |
| 2021 | $8.9M | $7.4M | $6.5M | — | — | $13.1M |
| 2020 | $7.3M | $6.4M | $5.6M | — | — | $11.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $500 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions103
- Total compensation, all staff$6.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Caroline Ann Budzinksi (director); Laurie Grice (president); Peter Gusen (director/secretary); Valerie Cherrey (treasurer); Amy McKechnie (director); Andrew Sherwood (director); Safia Latrous (director); Alanna Twohey (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Children's Village of Ottawa-Carleton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118852698RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.