Ottawa Catholic District School Board
Publicly funded institution · Nepean, Ontario · BN 869963967RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($761,924,000) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa Catholic 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 $779.9M in revenue and $761.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $670K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 5,046 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Operating 74 elementary schools 16 secondary schools and 4 adult high schools within the Ottawa region.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $779.9M | $761.9M | $741.7M | — | — | $151.6M |
| 2023 | $655.5M | $646.3M | $628.7M | — | — | $133.7M |
| 2022 | $631.4M | $616.6M | $599.6M | — | — | $140.1M |
| 2021 | $598M | $592.1M | $576.4M | — | — | $125.3M |
| 2020 | $568.3M | $559.3M | $544M | — | — | $119.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $670K from 14 charities:
- Ottawa Network for Education$592K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa)$50K
- The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall$8,500
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$5,100
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$4,200
- Let's Go 4 Troy$4,000
- Voices of Olympia Canada$3,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,000
- WCPD Foundation$1,000
- Oblates of Mary Immaculate$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$355
- Canadahelps Canadon$288
- Society of the Sacred Heart (canada) /societe du Sacre-Coeur(canada)—
- Catholic Education Foundation of Ottawa—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5,046
- Total compensation, all staff$629M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brian Coburn (trustee); Joanne MacEwan (trustee); Sandra Moore (trustee); Mark Mullan (chairperson); Cindy Simpson (vice chairperson); Spencer Warren (trustee); Jeremy Wittet (trustee); Eugene Milito (trustee); Scott Phelan (trustee); Luka Luketis-Buyers (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ottawa Catholic District School Board’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 869963967RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.