Cultural Interpretation Services for Our Communities
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 852705458RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,535,819) as filed with the CRA.
Cultural Interpretation Services for Our Communities is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $33.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $785K in 2020 to $1.7M in 2024.
In its own words
Provision of language interpretation and translation services to the immigrant community to faciliate their communication with health care legal insurance and social service providers. Certification training and training to those seeking to become interpreters and translators.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $995K | — | — | $815K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $777K | — | — | $636K |
| 2022 | $1M | $977K | — | — | — | $510K |
| 2021 | $920K | $881K | — | — | — | $455K |
| 2020 | $785K | $793K | — | — | — | $443K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $33 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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$540K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cultural Interpretation Services for Our Communities’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 852705458RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.