Ottawa-Carleton District School Board
Publicly funded institution · Nepean, Ontario · BN 119249233RR0003 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,282,878,414) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is a charitable organization based in Nepean, Ontario, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $1.3B in revenue and $1.3B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $192K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 95% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 8,457 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 60 qualified donees totalling $437K in 2024, the largest being $253K to Education Foundation of Ottawa.
In its own words
Providing Student Scholarships Providing Schools with special supplies and/or activities Running of Public Schools with related Board
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3B | $1.3B | $1.3B | — | $437K | -$17.6M |
| 2023 | $1.1B | $1.1B | $1.1B | — | $405K | -$29.8M |
| 2022 | $1.1B | $1B | $1B | — | $299K | $141.9M |
| 2021 | $1B | $1B | $982.4M | — | $213K | $130.3M |
| 2020 | $970.8M | $959.6M | $937.4M | — | $179K | $118.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $437K to 60 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Education Foundation of Ottawa$253K
- Canadian Cancer Society$53K
- The Terry Fox Foundation$50K
- Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation$24K
- Islamic Relief - Ir Canada$6,235
- The Ottawa Food Bank/la Banque d'Alimentation d'Ottawa$3,433
- Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada$3,215
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada$3,203
- Stittsville Food Bank$3,147
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$2,620
- Gloucester Community Food Centre / Centre Communautaire Alimentaire de Gloucester$2,393
- Ronald McDonald House Ottawa / Maison Ronald McDonald Ottawa$2,272
- Canadian Unicef Committee$2,153
- The Ottawa Mission$1,984
- Kanata Food Cupboard$1,844
- The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa$1,832
- FAMSAC Food Cupboard$1,636
- Centretown Churches Social Action Committee (ccsac)$1,577
- Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization/organisme Communautaire des Services aux Immigrants d'Ottawa$1,500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,365
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$1,229
- Barrhaven Food Cupboard$1,190
- Parkdale Food Centre$1,132
- West Carleton Food Access Centre$1,040
- The Snowsuit Fund/Le fonds habineige$845
Received $192K from 12 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$108K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa)$25K
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation$23K
- Glebe Collegiate Institute School Council$18K
- OSEG Foundation$5,000
- Ottawa Field Naturalists' Club$5,000
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$4,000
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation$1,090
- Canadahelps Canadon$635
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation$630
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$326
- The George and Sylvia Aikins Foundation$300
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8,457
- Total compensation, all staff$1B
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 Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119249233RR0003), or read how we compute the receipt.