Ottawa Community Foundation
Public foundation · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 119227981RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($54,756,000) as filed with the CRA.
Ottawa Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Ottawa, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $67.3M in revenue and $54.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 27% from other charities. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $8.3M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 89% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
The foundation pools charitable gifts in endowment or other funds from which amounts are made available for charitable distribution to meet a wide range of community needs and interests - the arts and other cultural activities scholarship medical and scienific research environmental concern and social issues. On approval by the foundation amounts are allocated to a charitable cause or organization as advised bu the donor.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $67.3M | $54.8M | $548K | $444K | $27.6M | $278.5M |
| 2023 | $49.7M | $23.9M | $659K | $643K | $19.7M | $275.6M |
| 2022 | $19.2M | $19.3M | $1M | $644K | $15M | $240.3M |
| 2021 | $51.1M | $17.4M | $871K | $724K | $13.6M | $240.4M |
| 2020 | $56.6M | $18.8M | $1.3M | $549K | $15.9M | $206.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $8.3M from 30 charities:
- Mastercard Foundation$4.4M
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$1.1M
- Five B Family Foundation$1.1M
- Canadahelps Canadon$501K
- Canadahelps Canadon$501K
- The Foundation Office.ca$335K
- Wesley M Nicol Foundation$199K
- WCPD Foundation$80K
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$21K
- Senators Community Foundation$20K
- The OutCare Foundation/La Fondation OutCare$12K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$12K
- Danbe Foundation Inc.$10K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$10K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$10K
- OCH Foundation for Healthy Communities/Fondation de Lco Pourdes communautés sainess$8,671
- Fondation Famille F.X. Seigneur$8,000
- The Bytown Gunners Order$7,712
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,579
- N.a. Taylor Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$4,788
- The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa$4,000
- Mona & Nav Aggarwal Foundation$1,000
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$1,000
- Community Foundations of Canada$1,000
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
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Carol Devenny (chair); Yumi Kotani (member); Cyril Leeder (member); Madeleine Meilleur (member); Tom Valks (member); Michael Maidment (president & ceo); Tracey Clark (member); Grant Jameson (1st vice -chair/secretary); Simon Kennedy (member); Janet McKeage (member); Susan Scotti (member); Julie Champagne (treasurer); Cynthia Harrison (member); Jeffrey York (member).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ottawa Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119227981RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.