Freeing the Human Spirit
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 834624678RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($54,657) as filed with the CRA.
Freeing the Human Spirit 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $51K in revenue and $55K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $19K.
Compared with 163 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $15K in 2020 to $51K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Promote and advance the education of physical mental and spiritual development of prisoners in canada by teaching them the disciplines of meditation and yoga
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $51K | $55K | $53K | — | — | $9,292 |
| 2023 | $34K | $26K | $26K | — | — | $13K |
| 2022 | $5,978 | $12K | $7,490 | — | — | $5,400 |
| 2021 | $13K | $11K | — | — | — | $12K |
| 2020 | $15K | $4,998 | — | — | — | $10K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $19K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Catherine Latimer (vice - president); Richard Boadway (past chair and president); Janis Aitken (director); Gary Meltzer (director); Fiorella Grossi (director); David Wilson (chair and president); Crysta Walski (vice chair vice-president); Rita Peng (director); Lisa Brodie (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Freeing the Human Spirit’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 834624678RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.