Cornerstone Housing For Women
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 837258854RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,356,700) as filed with the CRA.
Cornerstone Housing For Women is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $11.3M in revenue and $10.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 57% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 49 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $935K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. 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 (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 93 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.4M in 2020 to $11.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Cornerstone provides shelter to 165 women and supportive housing to 148 women across our five housing communities in Ottawa. To provide emergency shelter affordable housing and support services to women at risk of homelessness; to promote the efficiency and effectiveness of the charitable programs of the Incorporated Synod of the Diocese of Ottawa of the Anglican Church of Canada a registered charity under the Income Tax Act (Canada) by providing and maintaining property and facilities for this purpose and by providing management services thereto; to receive maintain manage and invest …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.3M | $10.4M | $8.7M | $424K | — | $44.4M |
| 2023 | $6.7M | $6.7M | $5.3M | $451K | $0 | $39.7M |
| 2022 | $6.9M | $7.1M | $5.9M | $383K | $0 | $30.3M |
| 2021 | $8.3M | $7.7M | $6.4M | $287K | — | $20M |
| 2020 | $6.4M | $5.3M | $4.3M | $220K | — | $19M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $935K from 49 charities:
- Fondation RONA$300K
- BenefAction Foundation$125K
- Canadahelps Canadon$78K
- Canadahelps Canadon$78K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$66K
- Canada Gives$39K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$39K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- Taggart Parkes Foundation$25K
- Barristers for a Better Bytown$15K
- Turnbull Family Community Building Foundation$15K
- The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa$15K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$10K
- Grey Sisters of the Immaculate Conception$10K
- The Bloodroot Fund$10K
- The Graham Family Foundation$10K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$7,250
- C.B. Powell Foundation$5,000
- The Don and Shirley Green Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- WCPD Foundation$5,000
- Knox Presbyterian Church$4,979
- The Walter and Friedl Stenger Foundation$4,167
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3,100
- The Sahara Foundation$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions93
- Total compensation, all staff$4.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mark Holzman (chair); Peter Martin (treasurer); Ann Chaplin (secretary); Yasmin Khaliq (vice-chair); Mary Laidlaw (director); Katie Boone (director); Carolyn Faught (director); Mary-Cate Garden (director); Susan Scotti (director); Garth-Matthew Symonds (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cornerstone Housing For Women’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 837258854RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.