Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa)
Charitable organization · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 785865494RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($513,922) as filed with the CRA.
Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $479K in revenue and $514K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from donations, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
It reported gifts to 45 qualified donees totalling $319K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Ottawa Catholic District School Board.
In its own words
The foundation's program improves the effectiveness of qualified donees and non-profit organizations by providing them with tickets to entertainment cultural arts and sporting events in order to advance their charitable purposes of relieving poverty and social isolation among poor children and youth.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $479K | $514K | $158K | — | $339K | $102K |
| 2023 | $466K | $438K | $138K | $13K | $277K | $137K |
| 2022 | $246K | $233K | $107K | $1,439 | $112K | $109K |
| 2021 | $165K | $120K | $96K | $11K | $6,761 | $96K |
| 2020 | $490K | $485K | $174K | $11K | $294K | $52K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $319K to 45 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Ottawa Catholic District School Board$50K
- Children at Risk Ottawa$45K
- Nepean Community Support Services$29K
- Ottawa-Carleton District School Board$25K
- Boys and Girls Club of Ottawa$19K
- Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre$14K
- Emily Murphy Non-Profit Housing Corporation$9,063
- Banff Avenue Community House$8,794
- Western Ottawa Community Resource Centre$8,664
- The Odawa Native Friendship Centre$8,653
- Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization/organisme Communautaire des Services aux Immigrants d'Ottawa$7,836
- Ottawa Chinese Community Service Centre$7,780
- Sandy Hill Community Health Centre Inc./ Centre de Sante Communautaire Cote-De-Sable Inc.$6,320
- Somerset West Community Health Centre$6,236
- Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre$5,653
- The Waupoos Foundation$5,479
- OCH Foundation for Healthy Communities/Fondation de Lco Pourdes communautés sainess$5,458
- Children's Aid Foundation of Ottawa$4,953
- Ontario Parents Advocating for Children With Cancer$4,711
- Starlight Children's Foundation Canada$3,574
- Thinking In Pictures Educational Services (TIPES)$3,542
- Inuuqatigiit Centre For Inuit Children Youth And Families$3,491
- Roberts/smart Centre$3,486
- Make-A-Wish Eastern Ontario$3,178
- Ronald McDonald House Canada / Maison Ronald McDonald Canada$2,958
Received $13K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$69K
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 Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 785865494RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.