Christie Lake Kids
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 132784471RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,196,997) as filed with the CRA.
Christie Lake Kids is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 16% from government, 23% from other charities. In 2024, 35 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $690K.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Christie lake kids is a not-for-profit charitable organization whose mission is to enrich the lives and prospects of economically disadvantaged children by providing quality year-round community and camp programs to develop physical social and charater skills. They have three cost-free programs to help accomplish this mission: (1) christie lake camp where kids have the chance to experience the beauty of the natural world - to swim in a lake paddle a canoe sit by a campfire (2) christie lake s.t.a.r in the after school hours which stands for 'skills through arts and recreation' and inclu…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $1.7M | $349K | — | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $1.7M | $340K | — | $2.8M |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $2M | $1.5M | $293K | — | $2.8M |
| 2021 | $1.9M | $1.7M | $1.3M | $274K | — | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $1.5M | $1.1M | $250K | — | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $690K from 35 charities:
- Taggart Parkes Foundation$215K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$100K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$54K
- RBC Foundation$40K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$36K
- ST. Brigid's Summer Camp$32K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$31K
- Senators Community Foundation$26K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$15K
- RBC Foundation$10K
- The Organix Foundation Inc$10K
- The Matt Foundation$10K
- Laidlaw Foundation$8,000
- BenefAction Foundation$6,000
- OSEG Foundation$5,000
- Kiwanis Club of Ottawa Foundation$5,000
- Wesley M Nicol Foundation$5,000
- Mazon Canada$3,300
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,080
- Canada Gives$3,000
- WCPD Foundation$2,500
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$2,000
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
- $40,000–79,99911 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Adeola Onafuwa (member); Chuks Onwuachi (member); Julie Taggart (member); Peter Melanson (chair); Riaz Kara (member); Ted Charette (member); Veda Rajole (member); Wesley Richardson (treasurer); Janice Ciavaglia (member); Andrea Levans (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Christie Lake Kids’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132784471RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.