Operation Come Home
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 119068997RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,726,342) as filed with the CRA.
Operation Come Home is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $2.9M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 59% from government, 23% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $825K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions 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 $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Operation come home operates a resource centre education housing and employment programs for street involved youth. In addition operation come home reunites youth with their families nationally.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $2.7M | $2.6M | $45K | — | $1M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $3.4M | $3.2M | $36K | — | $884K |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $2.6M | $20K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $2.1M | $6,850 | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $2.4M | $1.8M | $1.6M | $6,302 | — | $897K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $825K from 26 charities:
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$230K
- Canadahelps Canadon$141K
- Canadahelps Canadon$141K
- The Counselling Foundation of Canada$53K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$41K
- RBC Foundation$35K
- Wesley M Nicol Foundation$35K
- Hallmark Giving$25K
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$24K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)$19K
- Randstad Canada Charitable Foundation$11K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$10K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$10K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$7,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,069
- BenefAction Foundation$6,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,000
- The Eastern Ontario & Western Quebec Christmas Cheer Foundation/la Fondation Esprit de Noel de l'Est de l'Ontario et l'Ouest du Québec$2,900
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$599
- Abundance Canada$500
- Bethel - St. Andrews United Church$150
- United Way of Greater Toronto$124
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Emily Comor (vice chair); Chris Day (chairperson); Alessandro D'Angelo (treasurer); Jennifer Miles (director); John Gibbons (director); Graham Bird (director); Claire Seymour (director); Shirley Westeinde (director); Christopher Lord (director); Sanita Alias (director); Paul Marshall (director); Amil Reddy (secretary); David Schellenberg (director); Sunny Cohen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Operation Come Home’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119068997RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.